Name: Brandy Buck
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Cognac (brandy); 7.5 ml Grand Marnier; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 75 ml Ginger ale

Brandy Buck
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Glass:

Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Cognac (brandy)
¹⁄₄ oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ginger ale

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon wedge.

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring ginger ale.

Garnish:

Garnish with lemon wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Lemon juice adds balance to the sweet ginger ale. Brsandy provides the backbone.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Brandy Buck contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
12.08% alc./vol. (24.15° proof)
16.9 grams of pure alcohol

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John Taylor

4th June at 10:25

Don't shoot me but I substituted GM with Triple-Sec as it was all I had and thick end of a lemon for a wedge (squeezed so a little extra juice and oils). I also got lazy so stirred over two ice cubes - very nice indeed but the melting cubes dilute things quickly - you live and learn...

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John Taylor

4th June at 10:35

I also repeated this with bourbon instead of brandy/cognac - a variation on Kentucky Iced Tea without extra sweetness, lazy reuse of the lemon "wedge" too - and it's also nice, the reduced sweetness allowing a little extra citrus to cut through the mix but just as tasty I think. (Too much so, hard to sip and savour either option trying to beat the meltwater!....)

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Jack Reid

30th August 2022 at 07:23

I can't say this is a great drink, but it is perfectly fine. Suited to a hot summer day I would say. A bit gingery. A bit Cognacery. Evenly balanced sweet vs. sour. It tastes on the gentle side of neutral (but it contains more alcohol than that).

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Simon Difford

30th August 2022 at 20:05

Agreed. Was way too brandy heavy so I have cut this back.

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