Name: Corpse Reviver No.Blue
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Aromatized wine; 22.5 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 3 dash Absinthe

Corpse Reviver No.Blue
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
³⁄₄ oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
3 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Considering it's blue, "I quite like it" was the general consensus when we first tried this infamous cocktail. It tastes great when presented with a Jacob Briars' smile accompanied by his booming voice declaring, "I believe you ordered a blue drink."

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Variant:

Corpse Reviver No. 1 (Gilberg's recipe)
Corpse Reviver No. 1 (Savoy recipe)
Corpse Reviver No. 2 (Contemporary recipe)
Corpse Reviver No. 2 (Duffy/Gaige's recipe)
Corpse Reviver No. 2 (Savoy recipe)
Corpse Reviver No. 4
Corpse Reviver No. 0824
Cadáver Reviver
Blanche Corpse Reviver
Savoy Corpse Reviver (by Joe Gilmore)

History:

Created in 2007 by Jacob Briars, Queenstown, New Zealand. Around the time a Facebook group started called "A Jihad on all Blue Drinks." This was Jacob's reaction to it. He "blued' the most popular bartenders' drink" at that time, a Corpse Reviver No.2.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Corpse Reviver No.Blue contains 101 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
15.02% alc./vol. (15.02° proof)
13.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Eugene Bkln

20th January 2024 at 07:55

It’s a compromise. You lose Cointreau taste by gay an original color…

David Hoyle

14th July 2022 at 19:01

I made this with 30 ml lemon juice as per the 15th Edition recipe which has, evidently, been revised - I also dispensed with the Absinthe completely (let's just say, a previous bad experience!). Lovely lemony flavour with the Lillet Blanc flavour in the background and the appealing blue colour. The concept and documentation of the "Corpse Reviver" on this website is utterly fascinating.

Simon Difford

15th July 2022 at 07:28

The move to equal parts (rather than 30ml/1oz lemon juice) is a recent one - after our 16th Edition went to press. A matter of personal taste but equal parts is easy and sits well with this blue drink.

John Hinojos

21st May 2022 at 00:18

First, it is a beautiful colour. Looks very tropical. Great mixture of flavours. Almost has a tequila style of taste with a little jolt of herbal from the rest of the ingredients. Great cocktail.

G. M. Genovese

6th September 2020 at 20:24

I already forget the previous listed measure. May have even misread it the first time. Tried it again with the rinse, along with Tanqueray Rangpur and Cocchi Americano and it turned out much much better.