Remember the Maine
A Manhattan variation with absinthe and cherry.
CherryAbsinthe
Ingredients
- Rye Whiskey2 oz (60 ml)
- Sweet Vermouth0.75 oz (22.5 ml)
- Cherry Heering0.25 oz (7.5 ml)
- Absinthe1 dash
How to make it
- Stir all with ice.
- Strain into a coupe.
Glass: Coupe
May contain: Gluten, Sulfites, Wormwood (Thujone). Always check your own bottles.
History
Remember the Maine was recorded by cocktail writer Charles H. Baker in his 1939 Gentleman's Companion, who tasted it amid the upheaval of 1930s Havana. A rye Manhattan accented with cherry liqueur and absinthe, it is named for the 1898 sinking of the USS Maine; Baker advised stirring it 'in a clockwise direction... with somewhat of a frenzy.'
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