Applejack Fix

COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS:
- 60 ml Applejack (Preferably:
Laird’s Bottled In Bond Apple Brandy)
- 22,5 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 22,5 ml Raspberry Syrup

GARNISH:
- Apple Fan
- Lemon Slice
- Raspberry

INSTRUCTIONS:
• Combine all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker.
• Add ice and shake until chilled.
• Strain over fresh crushed ice into a cocktail glass.
• Garnish with an apple fan, a slice of lemon and a skewered raspberry.

Cocktail author: Al Sotack (Recipe based on Tom Bullock’s cocktail).

I was recently looking for some autumn cocktails and for me apples are quintessential autumn fruit. Therefore, I wanted to make something with a bottle of Applejack that has been sitting in my cabinet. Eventually, I settled on a recipe for delicious Applejack Fix, which might be more suitable as a refreshing summer sipper, but I could not resist trying it right now.

In essence Applejack Fix is a fancy classic sour cocktail, where apple brandy stands in as a base spirit and raspberry syrup is used as a sweetener. Flavour pairing of apples and raspberries is what the entire cocktail is built upon, so I highly recommend making your own fresh raspberry syrup, you will not regret it. It will bring some light sweet fruitiness to the cocktail, combining so well with the notes of apple brandy and balanced by the sourness of lemon. Served over crushed ice, it will be the most refreshing cocktail, perfect for hot summer days, but also suitable for the early days of autumn.

Source material:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/applejack-fix