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
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 9/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 5/10
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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’s Avatar 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.
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S BA’s Avatar 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
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John Hinojos’ Avatar 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.
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Doug Charnock’s Avatar Doug Charnock
9th October 2020 at 01:04
I had high hopes for this one, but it’s somehow a little one dimensional. Needs something, but I haven’t decided what.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
9th October 2020 at 06:43
Perhaps Ferro China Baliva to introduce complexity and to also better reflect Iron in the name.
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