Eureka Cocktail

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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
3⁄4 oz Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
3⁄4 oz Hayman's Sloe Gin
1⁄6 oz Heering Cherry Liqueur
1⁄6 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
× 1 1 serving
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Prepare:

  1. Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

How to make:

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

Garnish:

  1. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Review:

A punchy, full-flavoured, veritable basket of fruit.

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History:

Recipe adapted from a 1935 Bar Florida (later renamed Floridita) menu, Havana, Cuba. "Sherry Brandy" in the menu's recipe is presumed to be a typo for cherry brandy.

EUREKA
½ Gordon's Sloe Gallo.
½ Calvados.
1 Teaspoon Sherry Brandy.
1 Teaspoon Lemon juice.
Cracked Ice.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

Bar Florida, 1935

Nutrition:

One serving of Eureka Cocktail contains 124 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 0.8 standard drinks
  • 21.47% alc./vol. (21.47° proof)
  • 11.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Kevin Vinson’s Avatar Kevin Vinson
14th March at 22:44
Delicious! Made with patxaran since I didn’t have sloe gin here. Really sweet and refreshing with a darker undercurrent in the distance…. lovely starter
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Jeremy Harrold’s Avatar Jeremy Harrold
15th February at 16:45
Nice. Less sweet than I was expecting with balanced Calvados and Sloe gin flavours with the lemon adding a bit of zip!
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Martin Pryce’s Avatar Martin Pryce
5th January 2024 at 23:36
Surprisingly punchy drink. I found calvados leads with autumnal spiced apple followed by winter berries. Quite dry but very quafable still.
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Florian Ruf’s Avatar Florian Ruf
6th December 2021 at 21:59
With my products I would reduce the lemon juice next time, or, as I use a handpress juicer, omit the lemon zest twist.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
7th December 2021 at 19:52
Agreed. Indeed your comment led me to revisit the original recipe (now included above) and to amend my own interpretation. Now a better cocktail.
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