Flannel Shirt

COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS:
- 52,5 ml Scotch Whisky
- 45 ml Apple Cider
- 15 ml Amaro Averna
- 7,5 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 5 ml Rich Brown Sugar Syrup
(I used Demerara Sugar Syrup)
- 2,5 ml Allspice Dram
- 2 Dashes of Angostura Bitters

GARNISH:
- Apple Fan

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

Cocktail author: Jeffrey Morgenthaler.

Apples, for me, almost symbolizes autumn and, therefore, when autumn arrives my mind immediately goes to apple flavour ingredients and cocktails. Flannel Shirt, blends into the apple theme seamlessly by utilizing apple cider. A rare ingredient in cocktail world, but in this particular drink it simply sings.

Base of the cocktail is blended scotch with those signature malt, grain, oak and vanilla notes. Next, equally important, ingredient is apple cider (I used dry apple cider). It brings tangy, effervescent apple flavour, which tames the wildness of scotch and together it forms a warming base full of autumn notes. A touch of dark complexity is then added by bitter-sweet citrus and liquorice notes of Averna. A bit of tropical spice of allspice dram and Angostura bitters, blends so well with the apple notes, creating an almost apple pie kind of resemblance. Finally, a bit of lemon juice and brown sugar syrup, helps to elevate the drink by tweaking the balance and letting all those delicious flavours shine through.

Flannel Shirt is a surprising and remarkably delicious cocktail. Full of complex autumn notes and aromas. Great cocktail for a cold and rainy autumn evening.

Source material:
https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/flannel-shirt-cocktail/