- Hi, well welcome to the cocktail blog, I'm Steve the bar
tender, and today we are doing a cocktail compilation and
we're featuring Green Chartreuse. So Green Chartreuse is
a French herbal liqueur made by Carthers or monks, with a
recipe that's well over 400 years old. The Green Chartreuse
is a bold, herbal liqueur as opposed to the yellow
Chartreuse, which is a sweeter honey herbal liqueur.
Chartreuse cocktails today and I'll also be announcing my
next cocktail compilation. But before I get started, I just
want to do a massive shout out to the people who have bought
the back bar, meaning they have purchased the bottle for me
to use today, specifically Steve for buying Green Chartreuse
the featured liqueur in this cocktail video. Trevor for the
plantation over proof rum which is a Caribbean rum from
three different islands. Then, we've got Amanda McDee for
the Old Forester bourbon, and Sarah for the Angostura aged
rum, number 78 aged rum. Thank you guys, hugely appreciated,
and also a massive shout out to all the people in Patron,
and continue to support me, and make these videos possible.
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It can't be a Green Chartreuse compilation without the "Last
Word" which is probably the most well known Green Chartreuse
cocktail, its been around since around the 1920's, around
probish and arian estates, four ingredient cocktail, its
herbal, its gin based. Equal parts, one of those super
easy cocktails to remember. Three quarter ounce, 22.5
mill of Green Chartreuse, this is a 55% and
then your
preferred gin, I'm using Beefeater which is a London dry.
Same measurement, three quarter ounce, 22.5 mill and a
maraschino, I'm using Luxardo.
22.5 Mill, and fresh lime.
That is one pulpy lime.
There's like no juice coming out.
Plenty of ice, and give it a shake.
(shaking)
Into a chilled cocktail glass, a nick and Nora, or a coupe
glass, and this lime is extra pulpy so I am going to fine
strain.
This has a really nice, beautiful green lime color to it
from the Green Chartreuse and the fresh lime juice.
And garnished with a maraschino cherry.
So there you have a "Last Word", if you want to you can also
play around with the gin component, change it to an Irish
whiskey and you've got a Dublin Minstrel, change it to
Moscow and you've got a "Last of the Oaxacans".
Next, we have the "Last Flight", which is cleverly named,
its a cross between a "Last Word" and "A Paper Plane" which
is two of my favorite cocktails. Comes in equal portions,
same sort of framework as the "Last Word" and "The Paper
Plane" nice and easy. Starring Green Chartreuse of course,
three quarter ounce, 22.5 mill.
Followed by a bourbon whiskey, thanks Amanda.
Three quarter ounce, 22.5 mill.
An Aperol, some bitter citrus notes being added to the
cocktail.
And, fresh lemon juice.
So three quarter ounce, 22.5 mill, of each ingredient, add
ice, give it a shake.
And strain it into a cocktail glass.
And garnish it with a maraschino cherry.
There you have a "Lost Flight".
And onto cocktail number 3, "The Bywater"
This is a creation by Chris Hannah, he's a veteran bartender
and worked at French 75 in New Orleans.
Now this is a simplified version, I'll leave some more
detail in the description below of some of the other recipes
but I prefer to keep this simple one for you guys to try
at home. You can use a different rum if you would like to
but this is his preferred rum, which is the Plantation
Over proof. So this sits at 69%.
It's gonna stand up to the Chartreuse that's in the cocktail
it goes for 52.5 mill,
one and three quarter ounce,
then
22.5 mill of Green Chartreuse.
Cheers.
15 mill of Averna,
so one of these other versions do call for Amir picon, which
is a more orange amaro.
Then we have 7.5 mill, quarter
ounce of Velvet Falernum.
Which will also add some clove notes to the drink.
So plenty of ice, this one is a strong one so I am going to
give it a stir for about forty, forty five seconds.
Strain into a coupe glass.
And express some orange oils over the top, which will help
replicate the original Amir Picon.
There you have "The Bywater".
So there you have three easy Chartreuse cocktails, that you
can recreate at home if you've got a bottle of course.
First up, "The Last Word", cheers.
Beautiful way to showcase Chartreuse, citrusy, lot of herbal
obviously and Chartreuse pairs really well with the dry gin.
It's exactly what you would expect, it's a combination of
the "Paper plane" and a "Last Word", it's herbal, it's
citrusy, its vibrant, but then yet a subtle sort of citrusy
notes that's a little bit bitter as well, from the Apera.
I think I still prefer the original "Last Word".
Then we have "the bywater", cheers.
I really, really like that, it is extremely potent, you've
got three quarters of an ounce of a 55% Green Chartreuse,
you've got almost 2 ounces of an overproof rum that's sits
at 69%. I do like the use of the overproof, because it does
stand up to the herbal, herbal tones and the complexity
of the Green Chartreuse, so you've got a lot more vanilla,
and caramel notes in this one. But, its incredibly strong.
But it's tasty.
You definitely don't want to have too many of these or it
will knock your socks off. If you enjoyed today's cocktails,
make sure to check out the Neptune's Wrath which is an easy
variation on a Gin Sall with the addition of flamed Green
Chartreuse, nice and simple, but its got a little bit of
complexity from the herbal liqueur and you can also
check out my really
city moan in that video. Go check it out.
And I'll see you soon for another cocktail video. Cheers.