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Last Straw

Name: Last Straw
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 45 ml Elderflower liqueur; 45 ml Medium dry cider; 45 ml Apple juice

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (15)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 1/2 fl oz	Elderflower liqueur
1 1/2 fl oz	Medium dry apple cider
1 1/2 fl oz	Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of apple wedge.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with apple wedge on rim.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Last Straw contains 268 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
11.95% alc./vol. (23.9° proof)
23.1 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in 2006 by yours truly. We used the last straw we had left to sample the first one. Fortunately, there are alternatives to plastic straws.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

Three stages of the apple's alcoholic journey, juice, cider and brandy, are sweetened and aromatised by elderflower liqueur.

Cocktail of the day:

3rd January 2026 is The drinking straw was patented this day

Comments & Discussion

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G. M. Genovese Premium Member 2y

Pretty good balance up using Laird's BIB. Not sure if it would hold up in a Collins over ice unless some extra apple brandy and/or lemon juice acidity was employed.

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Very refreshing. The different flavours of apple make it most interesting. For my taste, I may back off the Elderflower a little, or substitute some in-bond applejack for some of the calvados. Great cocktail.