Name: Big Apple Sour Martini
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 30 ml Calvados apple brandy; 37.5 ml Apple juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Big Apple Sour Martini
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry &/or green apple slice/wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered cherry &/or green apple slice/wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A delicious and beautifully balanced apple sour, all the better when made with freshly pressed Granny Smith apple juice.

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AKA: Apple Martini, Sour Apple Martini

Variant:

Appletini (Sour Apple Martini) - vodka, sour apple liqueur, sugar syrup, lime cordial, lime juice and lemon juice.
Split Apple Martini - calvados, vodka, apple juice and bianco americano.
Calvados Appletini - calvados, apple juice, lemon juice and sugar syrup.
Big Apple Martini - gin, vodka, bianco vermouth, calvados, sour apple liqueur, and apple juice.
Apple Martini (simple) - vodka, gin, apple juice and sugar syrup.
Apple Martini (with apple schnapps) - vodka, gin, apple schnapps and apple juice.
Toffee Apple Martini - calvados, vodka, gin, sour apple liqueur, caramel toffee liqueur and apple juice.

Nutrition:

One serving of Big Apple Sour Martini contains 206 calories

Alcohol content:

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

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David Hoyle

31st December 2024 at 19:28

A lovely way to appreciate apple flavours, and it's good to see Avallen as the recommended calvados as it's an old favourite of this drinker. I used Cawston Press Cloudy Apple juice, in the absence of freshly-pressed Granny Smiths, and it's in UK supermarkets. It's a "monolithic" cocktail - but definitely something that adherents of apple might like to explore.

Loïc Pierre

23rd December 2024 at 23:09

I'm not a fanatic of this one. To give it another chance, I will try it again if I have access to a better calvados and a better vodka (tried with very basic ones).