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Stairs Cocktail

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (14)
Stairs Cocktail image
Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
2 fl oz Ketel One Vodka
1 fl oz Pear juice (freshly pressed)
1 fl oz Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
1⁄4 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄4 fl oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 dash Orange Bitters by Angostura

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How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Martini glass

Prepare

  1. Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of a pear wedge.

Method

  1. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. Garnish with pear wedge on rim.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Stairs Cocktail contains 185 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 13.11% alc./vol. (26.21° proof)
  • 19.1 grams of pure alcohol

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

History

Created in 2000 by Ian Baldwin at the GE Club, London, England

More cocktails by Ian Baldwin

Review

In London's cockney rhyming slang 'apples and pears' means stairs. Thus, this tasty cocktail is appropriately named.

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Comments & Discussion

Laurent Van muysewinkel
Un très bon cocktail très frais & agréable... J'ai simplement utiliser un jus de pomme/poire artisanal(comme beaucoup en Belgique) plutôt que pomme et poire séparer, j'ai également agrémenter ce doux cocktail de 1,5 cl de liqueur poire/cognac( Noces Royales... un délice juteux)
score: 1
David Hoyle
I have tried this three times. One time trying 25% of the vodka as vanilla as someone proposed - to me that did not work and the vanilla took over. One time as per recipe. Beautiful. One time without orange bitters. Very clean, the apple/pear flavours shining through. Also impressive.
score: 2
Dean Lubaki Premium Member
I found that substituting some of the vodka for some absolut vanilla vodka added a nice flavour to it
score: 1
Sally Morgan Premium Member
You’ll need to juice pears freshly for this (and whilst you’re there you may as well juice apples as well) so it’s probably just as well someone bought you a juicer with the fond hope you will life of kale smoothies. Mix the lemon juice in straight away to stop the other juices browning.

Delicious autumn cocktail that I’m sure is just as good for you as a kale smoothie.
score: 2

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