Hedgerow

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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄3 oz Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1⁄3 oz Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄6 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 oz Dry cider
1 oz Thomas Henry Ginger Beer
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Skewered lime slice wheel & candied ginger (sail)

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice. Open shaker and POUR cider and ginger beer into shaker. STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 6/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Review:

Elegantly fruity and citrussy with enlivening ginger spice.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in February 2023 by Kaitlin Wilkes for Avallen Calvados.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Hedgerow contains 168 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.1 standard drinks
  • 11.93% alc./vol. (11.93° proof)
  • 15.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Morten Hansen’s Avatar Morten Hansen
25th November 2023 at 14:01
Minor nitpick here, but I’m assuming it’s a “misprint” when you’re instructed to shake the first 3 ingredients and it should probably be the first 4 instead (i.e. the spirits, liqueur, lemon juice and syrup).
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
26th November 2023 at 11:35
Thanks for bringing to my attention, Morten. Now fixed.
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