Name: Forbidden Fruit
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Calvados apple brandy; 10 ml Gin; 10 ml Orange Curaçao; 10 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 2 dash Creole bitters; 45 ml Ginger beer

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

2 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

2 dash

Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Thomas Henry Ginger Beer

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.

Method

SHAKE first 7 ingredients with ice.

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

Garnish

Garnish with lemon slice wheel.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Forbidden Fruit contains 212 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
14.17% alc./vol. (28.33° proof)
20.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2012 by Aisha Sharpe in New York City. The original recipe was based on bonded applejack rather than calvados and was more or less:
- 45ml (1½oz) Bottled-in-bond applejack
- 30ml (1oz) Pimm's No. 1
- 15ml (½oz) Lemon juice
- 7.5ml (¼oz) Sugar syrup (1:1)
- 2 dashes Angostura Aromatic Bitters
- 2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
- 45ml (1½oz) Ginger beer

Comments & Discussion

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Romina 1y

I'm not sure about this drink... I was excited to try it since it has nine ingredients. It's definitely refreshing—you can taste the ginger (I used Fever-Tree Ginger Beer)—but the bitters are a bit overpowering. Maybe using just one dash of each instead of two would make it more enjoyable for me.

Donald S 1y

I found this very refreshing and a nice alternative to the standard gin style cocktail. I'm not a big Ginger Beer fan but found that it blended nicely with the Apple Brandy.

Avery Garnett 1y

It's good but...it's just really not worth the faff. It doesn't gain anything tiki-like from using a shopping list of ingredients to backup the calvados.

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Used Laird's 86 Applejack since it was a bit higher in proof. Very refreshing. Having a warm afternoon and perfect to cool off the body. Would try again with the Bottled-in-Bond Applejack.

Andreas Håkansson 4y

An interesting “concoction” that reminds me of a punch or tiki-style drink. The calvados or applejack clearly comes through and makes it a bit unique. Not so sure about the gin though. I’ll try without next time. A 3,5 star drink for me…