Name: Ironbound
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Cachaça; 30 ml Calvados apple brandy; 15 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 5 ml Brown sugar syrup; 2 dash Creole bitters

Ironbound
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Photographed in an UB 1910 Old Fashioned 10.5oz

Ingredients:
1 oz	Cachaça
1 oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₂ oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Demerara/Muscovado/brown sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Who'd have thought cachaça and apple brandy would make such good bedfellows with herbal liqueur and Creole-style bitters.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Mayur Subbarao of New York, USA. Mayur's original recipe called for bottled-in-bond applejack rather than calvados. The extra punch of applejack dries this cocktail so if using calvados consider reducing the sugar syrup.

Nutrition:

One serving of Ironbound contains 207 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
29.52% alc./vol. (29.52° proof)
23.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Annechien

6th June at 17:15

Made it without the sugar syrup and it’s plenty sweet enough for me. I used Leblon cachaca and Daron fine calvados. Very interesting flavours. Fruity and funky. The Leblon is a bit overpowering but the bottle is now finished. The next trial will be with Yaguara cachaca which I suspect might be an even better match for the Daron. Happy tasting.

S BA

25th March 2022 at 21:16

I added 10 ml of raspberry Sirup instead of the 5ml of the sugar Sirup. Was a nice twist, ultimately a variant on the Jack Rose Cocktail

John Hinojos

8th September 2021 at 00:20

We found it sweet, and we had put in half of the sugar syrup. I also agreed it needed a punch. So I went to my favorite herbal, absinthe. Added 4 spritzes to the drink. Stirred. One spritz on top. contained the sweetness at bit and added another herbal falvour.