Name: Apple Jack (by Sasha Petraske)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Applejack brandy; 15 ml Medium dry cider; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Applejack brandy bottled-in-bond (50% alc./vol)

1/2 fl oz

Medium dry apple cider

1/2 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1/3 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Apple Jack (by Sasha Petraske) contains 143 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
20.11% alc./vol. (40.22° proof)
18.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created by the late Sasha Petraske at his famous Milk & Honey bar, New York City, USA. Sasha was inspired by the Apple Jack Rabbit in The Savoy Cocktail Book.

The Apple Jack features in Georgette Moger-Petraske's 2016 Sasha Petraske Regarding Cocktails.

Apple Jack
½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) Simple syrup
½ oz (15 ml) Apple cider
1½ oz (45 ml) applejack
Combine the lemon juice, simple syrup, apple cider, and applejack in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously until the drink is sufficiently chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe.

Georgette Moger-Petraske, Sasha Petraske Regarding Cocktails, 2016

Comments & Discussion

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Marie-Therese Straus 8 months ago

This is an outstanding cocktail. It's simple but every part works together beautifully to create something much greater. It's refreshing and balanced and just seems to convey the quintessence of apple flavour. I used Laird's Bottled in Bond and Gowan's Sierra Beauty Cider and followed the recipe to the letter. A virtually perfect drink.

G. M. Genovese 1 year ago

Pretty solid with Laird's 100 and Austin Eastciders dry. Possibly the blandest 4.5 rating I've given. (19 Jul 2024, 4:01p) ... better with Aspall dry cider; it's like spiked apple cider, tasty asf (26 Sep 2024, 2:00p)

Georgette Moger-Petraske 2 years ago

Sasha's original recipe calls for 1/2 oz apple cider (not juice) and 1/2 oz simple syrup (classic 1:1).

Simon Difford 2 years ago

Many thanks, Georgette. I've added the original recipe from Regarding Cocktails above. We Brits can be confused by the US use of cider and hard cider. I corrected the recipe (allowing for the use of richer 2:1 syrup).

Geoff Blewitt 2 years ago

Cinnamon Apple Jack by GB: Add 1/2 fl oz of Cannella, which is a cinnamon cordial from Reno, Nevada. Complex, warm baked apple flavor, perfect by the fire on a winter’s evening after shoveling snow.

John Hinojos 4 years ago

Great before dinner cocktail. Nice hint of apple, but not overly sweet. Well balanced. Used Laird's Bottled-in-Bond Apple Brandy.

Matthew French 5 years ago

Looking for inspiration for an apple juice cocktail other than a Tatanka (or just straight bison-grass vodka and AJ), delicious as they are I came across this. Don't have Applejacks but do have Calvados (Avallen) - Apple Jacques, perhaps!

Simon Difford 5 years ago

Delicious with Avallen calvados but perhaps up to 50ml.

Matthew French 5 years ago

Well of course I had to try it with 50ml, and yes it was better. Now, I have a surfeit of lemon juice! Luckily, I have the day off work tomorrow, so what next...

Doug Charnock 5 years ago

After spending the afternoon crushing and pressing a whole lot of apples, this was just the thing. I used Laird’s 86 proof straight applejack with the fresh cider, but it was a little one dimensional. Substituting a lightly flavored cinnamon syrup I had did the trick to compliment the apple. Yum.

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Apple Jack (by Sasha Petraske)

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