Cocktails

The highball is a classic cocktail gaining popularity again

35 ml Somerset Cider Brandy
75ml club soda
Apple garnish
Pour over ice in a tall thin glass, add bitters for a bit of flair
Pour over ice and stir

A take on the classic Mule
35 ml Somerset cider Brandy
75ml ginger beer
Angostura bitters
Twist of lemon
Pour over ice and stir

A classic originally made from Applejack. 

50 ml Somerset Cider Brandy
Juice on one lemon
4 dashes of grenadine
Lemon wedge garnish 
Combine with ice in a shaker, shake, strain and garnish with lemon

A take on the Calvados sour that originally appeared in the 1892 book The Flowing Bowl. 

25 ml lemon juice
10 ml sugar syrup (or try Somerset Ice Cider)
35 ml Somerset Cider Brandy
Cherry to garnish
Shake with ice, strain onto a coupe with an ice cube and garnish

Somerset Cider Brandy
Forced rhubarb cordial
Bergamot juice
All shaken together

By the Barrington Boar

Somerset Cider Brandy 3 year old
Pear Juice
Haselbury Gold Rum
Martini Extra Dry
Garnished with lemon

By the Dark Bear

Somerset Shipwreck Cider Brandy
Lemon
Honey
Cider Bus Cider

by The Dark Bear

Somerset Cider Brandy 10 Year old
Cointreau
Lemon

by The Dark Bear

Somerset Cider Brandy 3 year Old
Pear shrub with cider vinegar
Lemon
Sugar
Morello Cherry in Apple Eau De Vie, 

Smoked Eau De Vie - 25ml
Somerset Cider Brandy 5 Year Old - 25ml
Ginger Syrup - 25ml
Lapsang Souchong - 25ml

50ml Somerset Cider Brandy 5yr old
50ml Orange marmalade
25ml Earl Grey Tea
3 Dashes Angostura Bitters
Combine and serve over ice

By The Savoy

45ml Somerset Cider Brandy 3yr
20ml freshly squeezed orange juice
15ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
15ml maple syrup
Combine and serve over ice

By Dustin Macmillan

30ml Somerset Cider Brandy
20ml pressed apple juice
10ml lemon juice 
10ml sugar syrup
Top with soda water
Served in a highball glass
Cubed ice 
Garnish with mint sprig 

By Dustin MacMillan

30ml Somerset Cider Brandy  
20ml Somerset Pomona 
20ml Campari 
Served in a rock glass
Cubed ice 
Apple slice garnish 

Quarante-Quatre (44 in French) a pleasure of Normandy

1 unpeeled washed orange
44 cloves
1 litre of Somerset Cider Brandy 3 year old
44 cubes of sugar
44 coffee beans
Stab the orange 44 times & insert a clove into each incision. Put orange and all other ingredients in a large glass container. Stir or shake over two days until the sugar is dissolved. Store for 44 days in a dark place. Strain, bottle and drink.

50ml Somerset Cider Brandy
25cl of lemon juice
10cl of sugar cane syrup
80cl  sparkling water
In a long drink glass filled with ice, add the Somerset Cider Brandy with lemon juice and sugar syrup. Complete with sparkling water. Garnish with a lemon slice. A refreshing cocktail ideal for summer.

60ml Somerset Cider Brandy
2 dashes of bitters
1 spoon of sugar
Dissolve a teaspoon of sugar in the bitters and water
Pour the Somerset Cider Brandy, fill with ice and stir
Serve in an old fashioned glass and garnish with an orange zest (optional)

50ml Somerset Cider Brandy 3 year old
50ml orange juice
25ml lemon juice
10ml Blackcurrant Liqueur
In an old fashioned glass add the brandy and lemon juice and complete with orange juice.
For a gradient effect add blackcurrant liqueur last.

By Damie Gillet

50 ml Somerset Cider Brandy 3 year old
10 ml Morello Cherry Liqueur
Fresh apple juice
2 slices fresh ginger
½ stem of lemongrass
3 drops fresh lime juice
In a shaker, put the Somerset Cider Brandy with fresh ginger and lemongrass and muddle all. Add the Morello Cherry Liqueur, fresh apple juice and a few drops of lime juice. Shake, strain and pour.

35ml Somerset Cider Brandy 3 year old
20cl dash of Ice Cider
2 star anise
Vanilla syrup
Cranberry juice

Somerset Cider Brandy 3 year old
10 mint leaves
½ lime
Teaspoon of brown sugar
Canada dry

By Chelsea Buck

50ml Somerset Cider Brandy 5 year old 
30ml Peach Shrub (cordial made with cider vinegar)
10ml Lemon
Ginger Ale
Served Long over ice

25ml Somerset Cider Brandy
25ml picon/Blackcurrant Liqueur
15ml lemon
15ml raspberry
Egg whites

40ml Somerset Cider Brandy
30ml Pedro ximinez sherry
20ml raspberry syrup
Fresh orange
3 dashes chocolate bitters

50ml Somerset Cider Brandy
20ml Lemon
20ml Raspberry syrup
3 dashes absinthe
Egg white
Soda
Served Long over ice

60ml water
3 cloves
Cinnamon stick
1cm piece of ginger peeled and sliced
1 strip of lemon peel
60ml Somerset Cider Brandy
2 tsp honey
1-2 tsp lemon juice
Grating of nutmeg

Put the water in a small pan along with the spices and peel over a low heat. Bring to a gentle simmer. Meanwhile, rinse a heatproof glass with hot water and dry. Pour the brandy into your warmed glass, then pour over hot water and spices. Stir in the honey and lemon juice and taste for sweetness. Top with a little nutmeg, and breathe in deeply.

2 Bramley apples, peeled and chopped
3tbsp caster sugar or more depending on the apples
4 or 8 good measures of Somerset cider brandy
The juice of 2 lemons
1 egg white
Ice cubes
Bring apples, sugar and a cup of water to the boil and cook on low for 6-7 minutes. Sieve pushing some of the apple through. The syrup should be quite sweet but still taste of apple.
Add cider brandy to a cocktail shaker with 8 tablespoons of apple syrup the lemon juice and egg white. Half fill with ice and shake well. Strain into glasses with ice and a straw.

35ml Somerset Cider Brandy
25ml fresh lemon juice
20ml sugar syrup
50ml apple juice
60ml Somerset dry cider
3 apple slices to garnish

Old fashions date back to 1892 and are still popular today. They are combination of spirit, sugars and bitters.

In an old-fashioned glass, stir together a teaspoon of maple syrup with a few good dashes of Angostura bitters. Add ice, and then 60–80ml Somerset Cider brandy. Garnish with a wedge of orange or a wedge of green apple. If the latter, make sure you souse it briefly in lemon juice to stop it discolouring.

The Telegraph

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add 1 teaspoon crème de mûre and 60ml Somerset cider brandy and stir until very cold. Strain into a stemmed glass. Strip the leaves off a sprig of rosemary, leaving a nice tuft at the top, and impale a small cube of green apple upon it. Place this in the drink. Add a dash of lemon bitters. Serve.