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

Ingredients

³⁄₄ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

³⁄₄ fl oz

Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Bols Blue Curaçao

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

3 dash

La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Corpse Reviver No.Blue contains 101 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
14.92% alc./vol. (29.85° proof)
14.6 grams of pure alcohol

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.

Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 44w

One doesn't really need to compromise the taste for the fun. We split the 'sweet' 15ml Blue Curacao and 10ml Triple Sec (or sometimes the other way around). It's still the pretty blue of your bonnie lass's eyes that are the light of the world.

Eugene Bkln 2y

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

David Hoyle 4y

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 Verified User Premium Member 4y

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 Premium Member 4y

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 Premium Member 6y

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.