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Sour apple liqueur
Sour apple liqueur is a bright green, sharply tart-and-sweet apple-flavoured liqueur — the defining ingredient of the Appletini and its close relatives. It's a modern, commercial liqueur category rather than a traditional bar spirit.
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Common uses
- gives Martini-format cocktails a bright apple flavour and colour
- sweetens and flavours vodka sours
Buying & storage
Keeps more or less indefinitely: Alcohol is preserving it. An open bottle keeps for a very long time, though aromatics do fade slowly.
Storage: keeps well once opened, store upright away from light
In depth
Understanding sour apple liqueur
How it is made, where it comes from, what it pairs with, and how it behaves in an alcohol-free drink.
Origin
A widely-available commercial liqueur category, popularised through 1990s/2000s Martini-format cocktails.
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
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