Name: Apple Brandy Sour
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 3 dash Aromatic bitters

Apple Brandy Sour
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or Aquafaba (chickpea water) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist (discarded) and garnish with a skewered lemon slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry sail.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice).
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Sour by name - balanced sweet and sour apple by nature.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Apple Brandy Sour contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
13.76% alc./vol. (13.76° proof)
13.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Beverly Stanton

28th January 2024 at 00:09

Very nice cocktail to showcase Calvados. I feel calvados is under appreciated. Recommend.

Peter McCarthy

4th July 2024 at 02:50

I'm new to Calvados. Which one do you like to use in cocktails?

Tony Jones

28th August 2023 at 07:21

Very smooth and well balanced. The apple and lemon blend well. A great use for our spare egg whites.

Egg McKenzie

29th April 2023 at 18:03

this is decent

Ignacy Szczupal

13th January 2023 at 22:16

More complex than its bourbon namesake and without the tartness of the lemon/alcohol combo thanks to the apple that would make this cocktail seem soft. Very treacherous and very good!

Geoff B.

25th October 2022 at 04:18

I dialed back the sugar and should have followed Simon. Great cocktail and the egg white really smooths out the lemon bite. Having the apple flavor in a sour is perfect for fall cocktail.

David M.

25th October 2022 at 04:18

Terrific! Using Daron calvados and Demerara syrup, the apple flavor was deliciously present. So interesting that apple and lemon would work so well together. Prefer it to a whiskey sour!