Name: Long Flight of Stairs
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Pear-flavoured vodka; 30 ml Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack; 30 ml Pear & cognac liqueur; 75 ml Apple juice (cloudy & unsweetened)

Serve in

Collins glass

Garnish:

Apple or pear slice

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. Serve with straws.

1 fl oz	Pear-flavoured vodka
1 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 fl oz	Belle de Brillet pear liqueur
2 1/2 fl oz	Apple juice (cloudy & unsweetened)
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Review:

A seriously tasty, strong, long drink. The name is a reversal of the London rhyming slang 'apples and pears' (stairs).

History:

Created in 2005 by yours truly (Simon Difford) as a homage to the G.E. Club's 'Stairs Martini'.

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Nutrition:

249 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
14.71% alc./vol. (29.42° proof)
24.3 grams of pure alcohol

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