Cocktails with Apricot brandy liqueur
Apricot brandy liqueur is a sweetened fruit liqueur flavored with apricot flesh and kernels, not a distilled apricot spirit despite the word "brandy" in its name.
ABVaround 26%Products vary, and the EU liqueur category sets a 15% minimum.
Substitutes for Apricot brandy liqueur
Another apricot liqueur
Swaps in one for one. Sweetness varies between brands such as Giffard Abricot du Roussillon and Marie Brizard Apry, so taste.
US flavored brandy
Can be used at the same measure.
Apricot eau-de-vie
Brings the fruit with little or no sugar and more strength. Use about half the measure and add syrup to taste.
At the same measure, it gives a peach drink rather than an apricot one.
Crème de noyau
A last resort. Made from the kernels rather than the flesh, so it tastes of almond rather than apricot.
Description
The base varies more than the label suggests: some houses macerate the fruit in neutral spirit, others in grape brandy, and the second tastes noticeably rounder at the same sweetness.
