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Growing Old and Dying Happy Is a Hope...

After dinner/digestif · Aperitivo/aperitif · Bittersweet (e.g. Negroni)

4.2 44 ratings

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Ingredients

1/24 oz Absinthe
2 oz Cynar/carciofo amaro
1 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
4 swath Lemon peel
6 drop Saline solution 4:1

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 RINSE chilled glass with absinthe and discard excess.
  2. 4 SQUEEZE lemon zests to release oils into mixing glass and drop zests in.
  3. 5 Add other ingredients and REGAL STIR with ice.
  4. 6 STRAIN into absinthe-rinsed glass.

Garnish

  1. 7 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

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Flavour profile

50.0% alc./vol.

History

Amaro and lemon oils overwhelm absinthe and rye whiskey in this cocktail.

This drink is based on a 2009 recipe by Maksym Pazuniak and Kirk Estopinal, first featured in their book Rogue Cocktails, from Cure bar in New Orleans, Louisiana. Its full name, "Growing Old and Dying Happy Is a Hope, Not an Inevitability," is too long for our database.

Created by Maksym 'Maks' Pazuniak