Sazerac

Origins

The Sazerac Cocktail became popular near the 1850’s at a New Orleans bar called ‘The Merchants Exchange Coffee House’ later known as the ‘Sazerac Coffee House’. The legend has it that the name Sazerac came from the Cognac named Sazerac de Forge et Flis imported by Sewell. T. Taylor. in the late 1800’s the primary ingredient of the Sazerac Cocktail changed from Cognac to Rye whiskey, due to the phylloxera epidemic which destroyed the vineyards in Europe.

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Ingredients
  • 60 ml Bourbon Whiskey or Rye
  • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
  • 2 dashes Peychaud's Biiters
  • 1 Sugar Cube
  • 2 dashes Absinthe
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Instructions
  1. Take a rocks glass and rinse it with Absinthe. Discard the excess absinthe.
  2. Place the sugar cube in the mixing glass and add both bitters, and gently muddle the sugar cube
  3. Add the whiskey, with lots of ice and stir.
  4. Strain the drink into the glass (without ice), garnish and serve.