Name: Old Mill
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 15 ml Peated malt whisky; 30 ml Ginger wine; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Creole bitters

Old Mill
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₂ oz	Torabhaig Peated Single Malt Whisky
1 oz	Ginger wine
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of cinnamon stick.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with cinnamon stick.

Review:

Peaty Islay malt and calvados combine in this spicy and warming on-the-rocks cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2014 by Andrea Buttier, an Italian bartender from Bologna working at The Loft, Clapham Common. Andrea originally used Laphroaig 10 year old for his malt with equal parts calvados, 1 shot Stones ginger wine, ½ shot simple syrup and 2 dashes Peychaud bitters.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Old Mill contains 202 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
23.05% alc./vol. (23.05° proof)
23.2 grams of pure alcohol

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