Seelbach
A bourbon champagne cocktail with a secret history.
ComplexBubbly
Ingredients
- Bourbon1 oz (30 ml)
- Cointreau0.5 oz (15 ml)
- Angostura Bitters7 dashes
- Peychaud's Bitters7 dashes
- Champagne5 oz (150 ml)
How to make it
- Build bourbon, triple sec, and bitters in a flute.
- Top with champagne.
Glass: Flute
May contain: Gluten, Sulfites. Always check your own bottles.
History
The Seelbach has one of cocktail history's most notorious origin stories. For years it was presented as a 'lost' 1917 recipe from the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, but in 2016 its true creator, Adam Seger, admitted he had invented both the drink (bourbon, Cointreau, bitters and Champagne) and its elaborate backstory in the 1990s. The fabrication had fooled cocktail writers worldwide.
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