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

Ingredients

1 ²⁄₃ fl oz

Cognac (brandy)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Thomas Henry Ginger Ale

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon wedge.

Method

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring ginger ale.

Garnish

Garnish with lemon wedge.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Brandy Buck contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

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

Comments & Discussion

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Claire Ferry Premium Member 15w

Feels more like an afternoon drink on a hot day. It is June but we're in Belfast and it's not that warm! Tasty but more bright than I was probably looking for. Also ginger beer is not gingery and less sweet than would probably suit.

John Taylor 1y

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...

John Taylor 1y

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!....)

Jack Reid 4y

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).

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

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