Name: Sidecarriage
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 15 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 10 ml Chilled water

Sidecarriage
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₂ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Elderflower liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₃ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Hints of cider and elderflower come through in this calvados-based Sidecar.

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History:

Created in 2006 by yours truly in London, England.
Sidecar history

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Nutrition:

One serving of Sidecarriage contains 201 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
17.65% alc./vol. (17.65° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Caitlin

5th July 2023 at 10:18

I enjoyed this drink. I cut the calvados with a little bit of apple-flavoured brandy to give the drink a little more body, as I find calvados is not as bold as other spirits.

G. M. Genovese

17th May 2023 at 18:09

If you can get a bottle, Laird's Bottled-in-Bond apple brandy is pretty wonderful in this. I did also have limited lemon and utilized a 2:1 lime-to-lemon. So there it is. Pretty beautiful, if marginally, mentally too candy-sweet. One of the more flavorful, intense drinks I've tried in recent memory. Even with these ingredients, the Sidecar nod is mad apparent. (17 May 2023, 2:09p)

Herbert Brant

30th December 2022 at 21:33

I love the addition of Elderflower here, but I'm not as fond of the Calvados replacement for the cognac. The fruitiness of this particular cocktail will appeal to many, but I prefer a sidecar/carriage with a stronger base structure.

Calvin Grant

28th January 2022 at 03:24

Granted I'm comparing apples to oranges here but I found this much more appealing than the IBA specs 5 2 2 Sidecar.

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