Big Apple Cocktail

Last week's TDN theme was Fruit Brandy where it was suggested: "Break out your kirsch, apricot eau de vie, applejack, poire william, or whatever other fruit-based spirit you can conjure up."  I took up the gauntlet and used both Kirsch and Apple Brandy in my entry:

Big Apple

• 1½ oz Laird's BiB Straight Apple Brandy
• ½ oz Strega
• ½ oz Kirschwasser
• ½ oz Amaro Averna
• 2 dashes Boker's bitters
• 1 dash Regan's Orange bitters

stir and let cook on the ice for a few minutes, there's a lot of high proof stuff in there and a little dilution is ok, stir again and strain

After I tried this it seemed to me reminiscent of a Manhattan, or one of the many Manhattan or Brooklyn variations named after New York neighborhoods.  Here's a nice roundup of them [alt link].  In this vein, and due to the apple flavor from the brandy, I ran with this theme and named the drink Big Apple, a nickname of the city we all know and love.