# Apple brandy

A fruit brandy distilled from fermented apples, ranging from direct, orchard-fruited American styles to mature oak-aged examples.

Parent category: [Brandy](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/brandy.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [Bottled-in-bond apple brandy](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/bonded-apple-brandy.md): 50% ABV. American straight apple brandy aged at least four years under bond and bottled at 50% ABV, with concentrated baked apple, spice, and oak.
- [Calvados](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/calvados.md): 40% ABV. A protected apple or pear cider brandy from Normandy that is distilled and matured in wood.

## Cocktails

- [Diamondback](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/diamondback.md): High-proof rye, bonded apple brandy, and Yellow Chartreuse make a dry, formidable three-spirit drink whose fruit and herbs emerge only after deliberate dilution.
- [Mundo Perdido](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mundo-perdido.md): Black rum and apple brandy give this compact modern tiki sour a dark fruit core, sharpened by lemon and rounded with cinnamon and demerara.
- [Orchard Street Cel’ry Soda](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/orchard-street-celry-soda.md): Amor y Amargo’s first menu stretched apple brandy and genever with saline celery, gingersnap bitters, and a dry charge of seltzer.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/apple-brandy
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/apple-brandy-26d6f719.webp
- Source: https://www.ttb.gov/system/files/images/pdfs/spirits_bam/chapter4.pdf