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Stone Fence

Name: Stone Fence
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; Top up with Medium dry cider

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
Top up with	Medium dry apple cider

Garnish: Apple slice

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Pint glass

Method:

POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and stir. Serve with straws.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Stone Fence contains 133 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
39.37% alc./vol. (78.74° proof)
23.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Although the origin of this simple mixed drink and its name are unknown history chronicles its being served at taverns since at least the early 1800s.

Review

Dry cider fortified and made drier by rye whiskey.

Variations/similar cocktails

Substitute cognac with calvados, Scotch, bourbon or rum.

Comments & Discussion

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Michael Cronin 4y

Legend has it that Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys drank the rum based version of this liberally the night before heading off to capture Fort Ticonderoga in 1775.