Name: The JP Sazerac
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 15 ml Whisk(e)y - Rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.); 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 4 Peychaud's / Creole bitters; 3 Absinthe verte (green); 2 Angostura or other aromatic bitters; 2 Saline solution; 15 ml Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist (discarded)

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into frozen glass (no ice in glass).

1 1/2 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
1/2 fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.)
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
4 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
3 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
1/2 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)
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Rémy Martin 1738 Cognac, 70cl

£ 56.95 £ 3.67 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Rittenhouse bottled-in-bond straight rye whiskey, 70cl

£ 41.75 £ 0.90 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Peychaud's Aromatic Bitters, 8cl

£ 9.95 £ 1.00 per cocktail, makes 10 La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 51.50 £ 0.44 per cocktail, makes 116.5

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Review:

As befits a great Sazerac, The JP is boozy with rich silky cognac smoothing spicy rye whiskey.

History:

We're indebted to the Cocktail Trading Company's Elliot Ball for bringing this cocktail to our attention and relaying the following story behind its creation and name.

Several years ago, a good friend and excellent bartender, known here simply as 'JP' after perhaps one too many Sazeracs, described his sexual orientation as being "75/25" - that for every three encounters with men, he needed to maintain balance by bedding a lady. His friends serving him, much to his regret, were perfectly sober and thus able to remember this staggeringly obnoxious description of his sexual proclivities, and thus dedicated to him the 75/25 Sazerac (three parts fruity, one straight). It has been shortened simply to the JP Sazerac, a loving commemoration of a good friend's appalling way with words. It's also a frankly delicious Sazerac.
Elliot Ball, 2016

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Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
27.53% alc./vol. (55.06° proof)
22.8 grams of pure alcohol

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