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Absinthe Drip Cocktail (Czech method)

Name: Absinthe Drip Cocktail (Czech method)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Absinthe; 60 ml Chilled water; 1 cube Superfine/caster sugar

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2 fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water
1 cube	Superfine/Caster/Baker's special sugar (white)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Absinthe glass or old-fashioned glass

Method:

BEWARE: please take care. Flames and alcohol are a dangerous combination!.
Place a sugar cube on a slotted absinthe spoon resting across the top of the glass. POUR the absinthe over the sugar cube into the glass. Light the absinthe-soaked cube and leave it to burn and caramelise. Using a bottle of chilled mineral water with a small hole in the cap, DRIP water over what's left of the sugar so it dissolves and drips into the glass. Add ice, stir, and serve.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

24.1 grams of pure alcohol

History

This supposedly bohemian method of serving absinthe became popular back in 1998 with the UK launch of Hill's Absinthe. Accordingly, if you are going to make this drink, then it is best to use a Czech-style absinthe such as La Fée Bohemian.

Review

More about the theatrics involved in its making than the taste of the finished drink.

Comments & Discussion

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Taygan Tornabell 1y

This is an incredibly dangerous practice that was invented in the 90s to sell poorly made fake absinthe. The “Czech” method was never used during the “Belle Epoque” era when absinthe was popular, nor was it invented in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, high-proof liquor and fire should never be around each other. Lastly, the burned sugar cube ruins the flavor profile of a well crafted absinthe. Performing the Czech method is akin to shaking a bottle of Champagne.

Please, don’t do this…

Glenn 32w

Hill's was also quite awful I found. Artificial colouring I believe with no added water louche. The only absinthe to ever give me some kind of body spots a few days after drinking it so goodness knows what went into it. 😄 I'm not sure we can even really call it absinthe compared to the much more traditional stuff we can buy now like Jade.

John CARR Premium Member 2y

Lots of fun and indeed theatrics with setting light to the absinthe. Very intense flavour.

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