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Forbidden Fruit

Aperitivo/aperitif · Long drinks and highballs · Spicy (e.g. Spicy Fifty)

4.2 76 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/3 oz Calvados apple brandy
1/3 oz Gin
1/3 oz Orange Curaçao
1/3 oz Rosso/sweet vermouth
1/2 oz Lemon juice
1/6 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
2 dash Aromatic bitters
2 dash Creole bitters
1 1/2 oz Ginger beer

How to make

Serve in a collins glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE first 7 ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring ginger beer.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with lemon slice wheel.

Flavour profile

14.2% alc./vol. · 1.5 standard drinks · 212 calories

History

This is not a sweet, fruity drink, but rather dry, spicy, and complex, with citrus zest and ginger spice over a spirituous, appley foundation.

This recipe is adapted from a creation by Aisha Sharpe in New York City in 2012. The initial recipe utilized bottled-in-bond applejack instead of calvados and consisted of: "- 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."

Created by Aisha Sharpe