Alaska
A two-ingredient gin and chartreuse cocktail with deep gold color.
HerbalStrongYellow
Ingredients
- Gin2 oz (60 ml)
- Yellow Chartreuse0.75 oz (22.5 ml)
How to make it
- Stir both ingredients with ice.
- Strain into a chilled coupe.
Glass: Coupe
May contain: Gluten. Always check your own bottles.
History
Recorded in Hugo Ensslin's 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks and again in Harry Craddock's 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, the Alaska is a potent marriage of gin and yellow Chartreuse with orange bitters. Craddock jokingly insisted it was 'not, as may be supposed, a product of cold climates,' attributing it instead to a 'very famous old Southern gentleman.'
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