Alert Your Friends! These 49 Thanksgiving Cocktails Belong at Every Holiday Celebration

Kick off a night with family and friends with the Thanksgiving sangria. The recipe includes white wine, cider, brandy, pumpkin butter, citrus, spices, and a splash of ginger beer. Everyone will be raving about its spicy and sweet taste.

If you love a good tart-meets-sweet combination, the maple cranberry bourbon cocktail is for you. The secret lies within its maple cranberries, which are extremely easy to heat over the stove. Garnish it with fresh rosemary, and you'll have the most delicious Thanksgiving drink.

Sip on a drink that contains the best Winter alcohols: whiskey and wine. The pomegranate New York sour is tart, sweet, and rich in texture. A solid 25 minutes is all that's needed to make this cocktail recipe, and trust us, it'll be a favorite among many.

Ideal for large family gatherings, this Champagne punch can serve up to a group of 14. The recipe calls for Champagne, grand marnier, vodka, pomegranate juice, ginger ale, citrus slices, and fresh raspberries. Trust us, there won't be one guest who doesn't enjoy sipping on this light, refreshing drink.

Put a spicy twist on the classic moscow mule with this pomegranate recipe. All that's needed is six simple ingredients to create a bubbly sweet drink that all friends and family can enjoy.

If you're looking for an easy recipe, the apple cider cocktail is your go-to. Five simple ingredients, a cocktail shaker and a muddler, and you're good to go! The drink is both fizzy and fantastic, and its sweetness is perfect for Thanksgiving.

Easy, refreshing, and delicious, you can't go wrong with the spiced cranberry rose spritzer. Make it ahead of time and store it in the fridge or do it the day of! The recipe's seven ingredients don't take long to whisk together.

The festive and colorful cranberry rosemary shrub cocktail not only tastes delicious, but its red color adds to holiday decor. Fruity, sweet, with a touch of cinnamon, this 20-minute cocktail recipe is a shoe-in.

Is there a better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than with a fresh, apple-infused drink? The harvest apple ginger spritz is a pitcher-style cocktail that will make any Thanksgiving celebration a breeze to host. Prepare this holiday drink in advance, store it in the fridge, and let its ginger and sage seep for a delicious taste. Everyone will love its sweet and zesty flavor!

If you've ever made a moscow mule, you know how simple the recipe is: lime juice, vodka, and ginger beer. For this apple cider moscow mule recipe, the only difference is its apple cider — so simple! Dress it up with a slice of apple and lime, and you'll be ready for your Thanksgiving celebration.

Thanksgiving can be a bit chilly, but this fig bourbon cider smash recipe will warm you right up. To create the delicious drink, combine each of its ingredients in a cocktail shaker, mix 'em up, drain them, and enjoy!

Friends and family will enjoy sipping on this warming cocktail. All that's needed is silver tequila, orange liquor, apple cider, fresh lime juice, and maple syrup. Top it off with a cinnamon rim, cinnamon sticks, and apple slices for a true Fall feel.

Start Thanksgiving day off strong with the Cinnamon Apple Cider Mimosa. Its three ingredients make it the perfect cocktail for a crowd, and it can be served immediately — no prep time necessary!

Celebrate good company with the spiced pineapple rum hot toddy. Not only is it tasty, but it has the medicinal effects of a hot toddy drink, which helps the immune system and aids with digestion. After a big Thanksgiving meal, this is the exact drink friends and family need.

Everyone loves dessert, and what better way to serve it than with a delicious dessert cocktail? The frozen pumpkin pie martini hits the spot. Made with a vanilla ice cream base, lots of spices, and vanilla vodka, the martini is creamy, sweet, and perfect for Thanksgiving.

After one sip, everyone's taste buds will be yearning for more of this chocolate marshmallow rumchata drink. The best part? It only takes five minutes to make, and it's so tasty!

Made with sparkling apple cider, wine, st. germain, and spiralized apples, the sparkling apple cider cocktail is one delicious drink.

A quick trip to Target is all that's needed for the ingredients in this drink. The cherry vodka sparkler is filled with cherry vodka, rock candy, and Target's simply balanced sparkling cranberry cherry for a drink your taste buds will love.

This self-serve cranberry white wine punch is ideal for a Thanksgiving celebration. With only four required ingredients and a two hour refrigeration time, it will be ready for your get together before you know it.

Why eat apple pie when you can have a cocktail that tastes just like it? The apple cider punch consists of sliced apples, apple cider, pear nectar, and apple pie vodka for a tasty drink that can serve up to eight people.

Guests will be blown away by how delicious this pomegranate citrus champagne cocktail is. It's so easy to make, they can even mix their own! All that's needed are five ingredients and a few garnishings to bring it all together.

Take advantage of cranberry season with the cranberry orange sangria. The recipe calls for one cup of cranberries, and its sweet flavor makes for a scrumptious drink! Give it a day to chill in the fridge, the payoff will be well worth it.

Friends and family won't be able to control their love for this drink. The pumpkin pie punch consists of apple cider, canned pumpkin, cream soda, pumpkin pie spice, vodka, and a touch of whipped cream. Its creamy texture and rich taste will be a hit, and you surely won't have any leftovers.

Have you ever heard of persimmon? The tasty fruit is only available in late Fall, and its sweet flavor makes a perfect drink. The spiced persimmon bourbon old fashioned takes advantage of persimmon's rich taste by mixing it into a cinnamon maple puree that's then poured into a classic old fashioned.

Get in the holiday spirit with the cranberry only fashioned. The drink is filled with bourbon whiskey, cranberry simple syrup and angostura bitters, plus an orange peel for garnish. Simple and delicious, you can't go wrong with this drink recipe.

This vanilla chai tea white russian is the perfect holiday drink to cozy up with after a big meal, and will give you a little boost of energy for Black Friday shopping. Heavily concentrated chai tea, vanilla, vodka, and cream are what's needed to bring this yummy concoction to life — plus a few cinnamon sticks for added flavor.

Made with real pumpkin, maple syrup, and bourbon, everyone will want a sip of this pumpkin old fashioned. After all, its flavors are the perfect complement to a Thanksgiving meal.

Keep loved ones warm and cozy in cold temperatures with the caramel apple hot toddy. Warm its ingredients on the stove, pour it into a mug and top it off with whipped cream. The Thanksgiving drink will be ready to serve before you know it.

There's no such thing as too much cider throughout the Fall, and this spiked pear cider with ginger is oh-so-good. All that's needed is pear juice, hard apple cider, ginger liqueur, ginger ale, and lots of spices to bring this drink to life.

There's nothing better than a warm drink throughout the holidays, and the hot cranberry apple cider may be the perfect one. The recipe calls for two hours of prep time, allowing the hot apple cider to simmer for 45 minutes on the stove. The end result is delicious and serves up to 20 people.

The black widow smash can double as either a Halloween cocktail or elegant Thanksgiving drink.

Pumpkin spice up a classic white russian with this cocktail recipe. A mix of coffee liqueur and pumpkin spice flavors completes the cocktail. Top it off with whipped cream and pumpkin pie spice for extra flavor, and it's ready to be served.

Apple butter mixed with an old fashioned cocktail? Sign us up. Have a toast to Thanksgiving, loved ones, and the holiday season as a whole with the apple butter old fashioned cocktail. There's nothing wrong with adding a Fall spin to a classic recipe, and this is it.

The ginger maple bourbon cocktail features maple syrup, bourbon, orange juice, lemon juice, and grated ginger for a refreshing and soothing taste that everyone will love.

If the prosecco bubbles, fresh pears, and vanilla beans don't win you over, the vanilla pear prosecco's easy prep time certainly will. Taking a total of 25 minutes to make, you can't go wrong with this flavorful Thanksgiving drink.

The name of this recipe says it all. The sparkling apple pie on the rocks combines Champagne, apple cider, and caramel apple syrup for a taste that's as sweet as a treat — your family might even skip dessert!

Combine homemade honey syrup, gin, lemon juice, and apple juice to create this mouthwatering cocktail.

If you love the taste of a sweet white russian, you might as well give this salted caramel twist a try. The recipe calls to replace the kahlua and vodka of a regular white russian with similar salted caramel varieties, and ta-da! The Thanksgiving salted caramel white russian is born.

In my opinion, pitcher drinks are the best drinks for the holidays. The peach honey sangria serves up to eight people and should be made in advance so that it can refrigerate overnight.

You love pumpkin and mojitos, so why not put two and two together? Muddle spiced rum with pumpkin, brown sugar, and mint for a twist on the Cuban cocktail.

Ginger, brandy, and maple syrup imbue the flavors of cold weather on a classic war-era libation.

Thanksgiving ought to be a celebration, not a somber, solemn meal — so why not get the party started with a margarita to match your cranberry jelly? This one is designed to be shaken in large batches.

Keep the festivities fun — but not out of hand — by serving a wine-infused cocktail instead, like this rosé sangria that's garnished with a sprig of sage.

Hosting Thanksgiving at your new place this year? Perhaps you'll want to pull out a showstopper, like an elegant apple cider and brandy provision, served up in a sugar-rimmed martini glass.

Cue the holiday by taking house-made limoncello and mixing it with tart cranberry juice and a splash of seltzer for some extra special cheer.

There is a light drink at the end of that rich, gluttonous holiday meal tunnel. It's called Euphoria, and it's an elixir with gin, citrus, and earthy leaves of sage.

It doesn't get much simpler to make than this three-ingredient gingersnap cocktail, a boon for stressed-out hostesses.

For a softer sparkler, ditch the champagne in favor of fizzy cider and spike your drink with brandy instead.

While it takes a bit of extra work to make the pumpkin spice syrup for these festive margaritas, the effort pays off in spades; it serves double-duty as coffee sweetener.