DeKuyper Pucker Sour Apple Schnapps is a highly popular and intensely flavored liqueur, specifically crafted to deliver a vibrant and often tart green apple taste, primarily for mixing in cocktails. On the nose, it offers an immediate and powerful aroma of crisp green apple, reminiscent of Granny Smith apples or sour apple candy. There's a clear sugary sweetness upfront, which is quickly balanced by a prominent tangy or sour note. The palate is intensely sweet and fruit-forward, delivering a concentrated burst of candy-like green apple flavor with a distinct and often sharp sourness that defines the "Pucker" style. The texture is syrupy, coating the mouth with a sugary, tart apple essence. The interplay of sweet and sour is the dominant characteristic, leading to a medium-length finish that lingers with tangy green apple candy notes.

This intensely flavored schnapps is primarily intended as a mixer, providing strong sour apple flavor and a bright green color to a vast array of cocktails. It is rarely consumed neat due to its intense sweetness and pronounced tartness. For food pairings, its role is almost exclusively integrated into dessert applications or as a flavoring agent. It can be used to drizzle over fruit salads, create flavored gelatin shots, or incorporate into sweet dessert sauces for a fun, fruity twist. In cocktails, it is a foundational ingredient in many popular drinks, most notably the "Appletini," and is frequently used in various sweet and sour shooters and mixed drinks, where it adds a clear and unmistakable green apple component, often paired with vodka or other fruit liqueurs. Its primary function is to bring a strong, sweet-and-sour green apple flavor and a vibrant hue to mixed beverages.