Name: Auld Alliance
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Scotch whisky; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Triple sec; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 50 ml Lemonade

Serve in a

Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 1/2 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
3/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup
1 2/3 fl oz	Lemonade
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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.
SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with lemonade and briefly stir.
Garnish with lemon slice.

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Strength & taste guide:

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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Review:

An orange-influenced Scotch Sour served long and refreshing.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Auld Alliance contains 173 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
12.61% alc./vol. (25.22° proof)
17.6 grams of pure alcohol

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