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Eureka Cocktail

Name: Eureka Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Calvados apple brandy; 22.5 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 5 ml Cherry brandy; 5 ml Lemon juice

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (33)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
³⁄₄ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin liqueur
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Cherry (brandy) liqueur
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

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

Method

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

Garnish

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Eureka Cocktail contains 124 calories

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
21.47% alc./vol. (42.93° proof)
12.7 grams of pure alcohol

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

Review

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

Hayman's Sloe Gin 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$34.99 $1.06 per cocktail Hayman's Sloe Gin image

Cherry Heering Liqueur 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$29.99 $0.20 per cocktail Cherry Heering Liqueur image

$1.26 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 33 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Kevin Vinson 1y

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

Jeremy Harrold 1y

Nice. Less sweet than I was expecting with balanced Calvados and Sloe gin flavours with the lemon adding a bit of zip!

Martin Pryce 2y

Surprisingly punchy drink. I found calvados leads with autumnal spiced apple followed by winter berries. Quite dry but very quafable still.

Florian Ruf Premium Member 4y

With my products I would reduce the lemon juice next time, or, as I use a handpress juicer, omit the lemon zest twist.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

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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