Sazerac
New Orleans' official cocktail. A rich, aromatic whiskey drink with an absinthe rinse.
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Ingredients
- Rye Whiskey2 oz (60 ml)
- AbsintheRinse
- Sugar Cube1
- Peychaud's Bitters3 dashes
- Lemon Twist1
How to make it
- Rinse a chilled glass with absinthe.
- Muddle sugar with bitters.
- Add rye and stir with ice.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
- Express lemon peel (discard).
Glass: Rocks
May contain: Gluten, Wormwood (Thujone). Always check your own bottles.
History
The Sazerac is New Orleans' iconic cocktail, traced to the 1850s and the Creole apothecary Antoine Peychaud, whose bitters flavor it. Originally made with cognac and named for the Sazerac de Forge brand, it shifted to rye whiskey after the phylloxera blight, and is finished with a rinse of absinthe. It is often called America's first branded cocktail.
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