Name: Cajun Nail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 10 ml Absinthe; 30 ml Tennessee whiskey; 30 ml Honey herbal liqueur; 2 dash Creole bitters; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Ingredients

¹⁄₃ fl oz

La Fée Parisienne absinthe

1 fl oz

Tennessee whiskey

1 fl oz

Honey herbal liqueur (e.g. Drambuie)

2 dash

Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

2 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

POUR absinthe into ice-filled glass, TOP with water and set aside.

Separately, STIR whiskey, liqueur and bitters with ice.

DISCARD contents of glass (absinthe, water and ice).

STRAIN stirred cocktail into absinthe-coated glass (no ice in glass).

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cajun Nail contains 199 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
34.62% alc./vol. (69.25° proof)
24.7 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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James Buckman 1y

Made this in the past and really enjoyed it. This evening, I only had a 2/3 shot of Tennessee whiskey available and after thrashing around looking for something appropriate to make up the shortfall, I pulled out a bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask and thought: “Why not?”
It’s not bad. I might experiment more. (I too cannot discard perfectly good Absinthe.)

Yorey C 1y

sweet

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

Ahhh...This is awesome! Ooops, I grabbed the Regans' Orange bitters when reaching for the Peychaud's, added the Creole bitters also and increased the Drambuie and Jack by half to make up for the extra bitters. 5X☆+♡

Brian Herring Premium Member 3y

please, please, please don't discard the absinthe
pour it into a shot glass and have it as a chaser
anyone seen pouring the Green Fairy away will be shot on sight

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Very good aperitif. Like most cocktails of this type, it is a bit sweet, but not overly if you let it breath. Benefits from a long stir.

Greg Klump 4y

To my taste: way too sweet. Rather than tossing it, I rescued it by pouring it into a highball glass and topping with soda water + a dash of Regans orange bitters.