Time for Suze

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2⁄3 oz Oude genever
1⁄2 oz Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)
1 1⁄3 oz Fennel tea
4 dash La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1⁄6 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  3. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Review:

A wonderfully delicate and dry aperitif. Genever provides a bready spirituous base over which flavours of gentian, fennel and absinthe are layered.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2017 by Emily Muscutt at Toto, Newcastle, England.

This drink began life as a low alc./vol. cocktail, minus the genever, to reflect the trend for lower alcoholic drinks. A drink to be drunk in the afternoon - a time traditionally for tea.

Emily Muscutt, 2017

Nutrition:

One serving of Time for Suze contains 88 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 0.6 standard drinks
  • 10.73% alc./vol. (10.73° proof)
  • 8.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Louise Allen’s Avatar Louise Allen
11th October 2024 at 21:52
What is fennel tea? Took me ages to spot it but have no idea what it entails
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Tony Kennedy’s Avatar Tony Kennedy
30th April 2023 at 13:08
What is the special ingredient? There is no, “see above”.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
30th April 2023 at 20:05
It's "Fennel tea" (please see under How to make and above recipe). Not how I'd display it today, more limited to what I could do when uploading recipes back then.
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