A combination of apple cider, ginger beer, lemon juice, and bourbon, this cocktail has the power to chase the chill away. Move over, pumpkin latte, this cocktail is here, and it’s here to stay. They also demonstrate how the same split base can be used to create very different types of drinks. Give your apple cider the grown-up treatment by spiking it with bourbon.
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2 tablespoons Cinnamon, for the rim, plus more for garnish. 1 can Spindrift Cranberry Raspberry Sparkling Water For the Holiday Bourbon Lemon Apple Cider. They’re good illustrations of how split-base drinks can add complexity to conventional cocktail formats. cup Apple brandy, we used Laird’s Applejack. You’ll have to separate an egg, and you’ll need to make some quick syrups if you don’t already have them around, but other than that, these are relatively low-effort drinks. It was first produced by the Laird family in New Jersey in. But today I want to delve a little further, examining two different split base cocktails that use the exact same base - an equal split of Rittenhouse Rye and Laird’s Straight Apple Brandy - in different cocktail formats.īoth of these drinks are relatively easy to make: They use spirits we’ve already dealt with in this newsletter, and they don’t require significant preparation. Laird’s Straight Applejack 86 has a clear honey-brown colour and aromas of cooked, ripe apples and charred bourbon-like oak. Lairds Apple Jack is a unique drink made from 35 cider brandy and 65 neutral grain spirits. Seventeen pounds of fresh tree-ripened apples are needed to produce each single bottle. Prior to and post Prohibition, our American Applejack was a straight apple brandy produced at the proof of 86. We’ve looked at some split base drinks before (and I’ve argued that some four-equal-parts classics are actually just split-base cocktails ). Laird’s Straight Applejack 86 represents the return to the Laird family’s historic roots. Add bourbon and apple cider and simple syrup plus lemon juice Stir together to chill and combine.
Then pour in the bourbon, apple cider, simple syrup, and freshly squeezed lemon juice. This Old Fashioned-style cocktail follows the same bitters, sugar, whiskey and orange peel profile as the classic, but uses orange bitters, a brown sugar cube and one part applejack and one part rye whiskey. In last week’s newsletter, we covered two different ways to build a Pumpkin Spice Old Fashioned - one with a conventional single-spirit base of bourbon, the other with a two-part split base of Laird’s Apple Brandy and aged demerara rum. Yes, if you prefer that, you absolutely can First, in a cocktail shaker or large glass or jar, add ice. Richard Boccato and Michael McIlroy created the American Trilogy in 2007 while bartending together at New York’s, Little Branch.
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