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Yellow Parrot

Name: Yellow Parrot
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 20 ml Absinthe; 20 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 20 ml Apricot liqueur; 30 ml Chilled water

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2/3 fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2/3 fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
2/3 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1 fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water (reduce if wet ice)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Yellow Parrot contains 192 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
23.04% alc./vol. (46.08° proof)
22.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Some say this was created in 1935 by Albert Coleman at The Stork Club, New York City, but the cocktail first appeared in in Robert Vermeire's 1922 Cocktails: How to Mix Them and also notably in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

YELLOW PARROT COCKTAIL.
This Boston drink is made of:
1/6 gill of Absinthe.
1/6 gill of Yellow Chartreuse.
1/6 gill of Apricot Brandy.
Shake well and strain into a cocktail-glass.
Robert Vermeire, 1922

YELLOW PARROT COCKTAIL.
1/3 Absinthe.
1/3 Yellow Chartreuse.
1/3 Apricot Brandy.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

More cocktails by Harry Craddock

Review

The aniseed of the absinthe combines well with the other ingredients but dilution is key. A bit of a sweety but a strong old bird.

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Comments & Discussion

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Greg W Premium Member 1y

The absinthe seems to dominate, so I dial it back to 15 ml and quite enjoy it.

Nikolaus Linder Premium Member 1y

I also found it in Alfred Richard Meyer's "Des Herrn Munkepunke Cocktail- und Bowlenbuch" which first appeared in 1929, p. 16: "Yellow Parrot Cocktail. Es geht um einen gelben Papagei / Ganz ohne Proselytenmacherei. / Drei Gläser sind dazu vonnöten, / Damit das liebe Tier kann flöten. / Abricot, gelbe Chartreuse, Absinth. / Worauf der Vogel zu singen beginnt. / 'Lora – Köpfchen kraulen!' / So läßt sich mancher Griesgram vergraulen."

Ramon Simpson 4y

I prefer to stir in a mixing glass filled with ice, then strain over a large ice rock..