Growing Old and Dying Happy Is a Hope...
Ingredients
- 1⁄24 oz La Fée Parisienne absinthe
- 2 oz Cynar artichoke amaro
- 1 oz WhistlePig 10yo Straight Rye Whisky
- 4 swath Lemon peel
- 6 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s
Method
Glass:
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Prepare:
- Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
Method:
- RINSE chilled glass with absinthe and discard excess.
- SQUEEZE lemon zests to release oils into mixing glass and drop zests in.
- Add other ingredients and REGAL STIR with ice.
- STRAIN into absinthe-rinsed glass.
Garnish:
- EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
History:
Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Maksym Pazuniak and Kirk Estopinal at Cure bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, and first published in their Rogue Cocktails book. Perhaps the cocktail with the longest name, its full name is "Growing Old and Dying Happy Is a Hope, Not an Inevitability," but that's five characters longer than our database can accommodate.
Review:
Amaro and lemon oils manage to overwhelm muscular absinthe and rye whiskey in this full-flavoured, harmonious cocktail.
