3/4 oz Yellow Chartreuse (*)
3/4 oz Falernum (John D. Taylor Velvet)
3/4 oz Lime Juice
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
(*) Now made with Strega at the Anvil.
The Eulogy's nose was filled with lime and Batavia Arrack aromas. The drink was a bit sweet for my tastes especially compared to the Last Word, although after successive sips, the sweetness seemed to subside to a more comfortable level. The first part of the sip was the sweetness combined with the lime juice's fruitiness. The Chartreuse and falernum's spice followed this first flavor wave, and the Batavia Arrack's rawness completed the profile on the swallow. The Batavia Arrack did a great job filling in for the intensity lost via eliminating the green Chartreuse, and the yellow Chartreuse and falernum did a decent job substituting for Maraschino liqueur's role in the Last Word.
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4 comments:
FYI, that drink was created with Strega. It is definitely too sweet with Yellow Chartreuse.
The drink was first tweeted by Bobby Heugel as Yellow Chartreuse.
From one source, "Bobby had originally played around with making the drink using yellow Chartreuse, but the cocktail actually comes together better using Strega rather than the Chartreuse, seemingly since Strega has a few characteristics yellow Chartreuse lacks."
So Strega was the improvement, not the initial ingredient.
Unless of course you're the Justin who bartends at the Anvil, in which case, I will take your word.
The first I heard of the Strega version was 9 months later when Chuck Taggart visited the bar.
Yes. I created that drink at Anvil. It originally used Strega. We tinkered with using Yellow Chartreuse, but that was a vastly inferior drink.
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