Whiskey cocktails
Sazerac
Rye, sugar and Peychaud’s in an absinthe-rinsed glass. Spicy and aniseed.
- Strength
- Spirit-forward
- Sweetness
- Dry
Ingredients
- 60 ml2 ozRye whiskey
- 7 ml¼ ozRich demerara syrup (2:1)
- 3 dashes3 dashesPeychaud's bitters
- Rinse the glassRinse the glassAbsinthe
Makes one drink, about 65 ml before ice.
Method
- Put the rocks glass in the freezer to chill.
- Rinse the glass with a little absinthe and pour out the excess.
- Add everything except the absinthe to a mixing glass. Fill with ice and stir for about 30 seconds, until very cold.
- Strain into the rocks glass.
- Garnish: lemon peel, discarded.
- Glass
- Rocks glass
- Ice
- None, served neat
- Garnish
- Lemon peel, discarded
- Tastes
- Boozy, Herbal