Name: Suzerac
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 5 ml Absinthe; 45 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Gentian liqueur; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 3 dash Creole bitters

Ingredients

1/6 fl oz

La Fée Parisienne absinthe

1 1/2 fl oz

Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)

1 fl oz

Gentian liqueur Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Avèze, Salers)

1/4 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

3 dash

Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

RINSE glass with absinthe, discard excess and set to one side.

STIR other ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into absinthe-rinsed 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 Suzerac contains 198 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
28.77% alc./vol. (57.54° proof)
25.5 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Mika Perkiömäki 36w

I, for one, do generally like sweet cocktails, so the dryness Suze brings, surprised me in how I truly enjoy it. I am sipping this cocktail right now. 4.5/5 in my own notes 👍

Peter Barth 1y

I thoroughly enjoyed the cocktail . . right up to the point where I remembered that there was supposed to be a modicum of sugar syrup in this endeavor. added and honestly - if one celebrates dry cocktails, better to be left out.

Matt Premium Member 1y

Lighter in flavor and body than the Sazerac, but still silky smooth and delicious, especially if you enjoy the earthy, vegetal and bitter notes of Suze (I do). I prefer the balance of this cocktail to the somewhat sweeter and heavier Sazerac (although that is excellent as well). I also like that it is a simpler recipe.

Louise Allen 1y

Delicious! So as not to waste the absinthe I popped the rinse discard into a shot glass and dropped the expressed lemon round into it, served on the side. The drink itself is superb. Well balanced and bittersweet. Putting the absinthe on the side with the lemon makes me yearn for a Prague revisit...