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Old Mill

Name: Old Mill
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 15 ml Peated malt whisky; 30 ml Ginger wine; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Creole bitters

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1/2 fl oz	Peated single malt whisky
1 fl oz	Ginger wine
1/3 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of cinnamon stick.

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with cinnamon stick.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Old Mill contains 202 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
23.08% alc./vol. (46.17° proof)
23.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a drink created in 2014 by Andrea Buttier, an Italian bartender from Bologna working at The Loft, Clapham Common. Andrea originally used Laphroaig 10 year old for his malt with equal parts calvados, 1 shot Stones ginger wine, ½ shot simple syrup and 2 dashes Peychaud bitters.

More cocktails by Andrea Buttier

Review

Peaty Islay malt and calvados combine in this spicy and warming on-the-rocks cocktail.

Comments & Discussion

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Jeremy Harrold 1y

Personally it was very sweet and lacking in ginger (Stone’s Green). I would leave out the sugar syrup and muddle a coin of ginger.