# Brandy

A family of spirits distilled from wine or fermented fruit; unqualified brandy is normally grape based, while named fruit brandies retain their source fruit's character.

Parent category: [Spirit](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/spirit.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [Apple brandy](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/apple-brandy.md): 40% ABV. A fruit brandy distilled from fermented apples, ranging from direct, orchard-fruited American styles to mature oak-aged examples.
- [Cognac](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cognac.md): 40% ABV. A protected French grape brandy from the Cognac region, double-distilled in copper pot stills and aged in oak.
- [Kirschwasser](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/kirschwasser.md): 40% ABV. A clear, unsweetened cherry eau-de-vie distilled from fermented cherries, with vivid stone-fruit aroma and a characteristic almond-like kernel note.
- [Pisco](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/pisco.md): 40% ABV. A South American grape spirit, most closely associated with Peru and Chile, distilled to retain a vivid aromatic fruit character.
- [Singani](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/singani.md): 40% ABV. Bolivia's protected grape spirit, distilled from Muscat of Alexandria in designated production zones.

## Cocktails

- [Brandy Crusta](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-crusta.md): A brandy sour with maraschino, curaçao, bitters, a sugar-crusted rim, and a long citrus peel.
- [Brandy Scaffa](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-scaffa.md): Equal old brandy and maraschino with aromatic bitters preserve Jerry Thomas’s concentrated, undiluted room-temperature scaffa.
- [Coffee Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/coffee-cocktail.md): Despite its name, this late-nineteenth-century flip contains no coffee: ruby Port, brandy, sugar, and a whole egg shake into a rich café-au-lait colour.
- [Fog Cutter](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fog-cutter.md): Trader Vic’s heavyweight combines three spirits beneath a strikingly lemon-led citrus body, with orgeat binding the drink before a sweet-sherry float.
- [Metropole Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/metropole-cocktail.md): George Kappeler’s equal brandy-and-French-vermouth cocktail layers three tiny sweet, anise, and orange-bitter accents over an unusually dry core.
- [New Orleans Brandy Milk Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/new-orleans-brandy-milk-punch.md): Cold whole milk turns brandy, fine sugar, and nutmeg into New Orleans’s frothy, gently sweet brunch standard without the weight of cream or egg.
- [Picon Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/picon-punch.md): Nevada’s Basque-American state drink layers robust bitter-orange amer, pomegranate, soda, and a brandy float into a compact, uncompromising regional highball.
- [Porto Flip](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/porto-flip.md): A tawny port and brandy flip given a silky texture by egg yolk.
- [Scorpion](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/scorpion.md): White rum and brandy share a large measure of orange and lemon with orgeat in Trader Vic's individual 1972 drink, a distinct descendant rather than a scaled-down communal bowl.
- [Sidra Ponche](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sidra-ponche.md): Brandy and fino anchor a tart, nutty punch whose short crown of naturally funky Spanish cider adds orchard fruit and a quiet sparkle.
- [Suffering Bastard](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/suffering-bastard.md): Joe Scialom's wartime Cairo highball, joining gin and brandy with lime cordial, aromatic bitters, and a bracing ginger-beer finish.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/brandy
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/brandy-05a69bb6.webp
- Source: https://www.ttb.gov/system/files/images/pdfs/spirits_bam/chapter4.pdf