Name: Episcopal
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Chartreuse Green; 30 ml Chartreuse Yellow

Episcopal
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Glass:

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 fl oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
1 fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
No garnish to prepare.

How to make:

STIR ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish:

Serve naked, without garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

My favourite way to enjoy Chartreuse. Especially good when made with V.E.P. Chartreuse. Use equal parts of each liqueur or use more of the stronger Green, or the sweet Yellow, depending on your personal taste or mood.

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History:

A well-established drink promoted by the marketeers at Chartreuse and named due to the combining of the clerical colours of green and golden yellow.

According to The Ecclesiastical Review, the shade of green used for vestments signifies the "sight of sunlit meadow and shady woodland, all of which indicates the sense of hope and peace or of tranquil gladness." Green is worn on Sundays and Ferias in Ordinary Time while golden cloth was traditionally worn for the Novena (16 to 24 December) according to a Spanish custom abolished in the 1950s.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
38.58% alc./vol. (77.17° proof)
23.2 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Steven Jepson

29th May at 19:41

Tried and first thought was nice but just too much - it was served in a well iced glass so I gave a quick 2nd stir and so good.
Needs to be cold and stirred down a little longer.
Must try this with the 9th Centenary version I'm thinking with the Green Chartreuse

Linda E Leonard

16th May at 00:39

As someone who struggled to acquire chartreuse of any color in the past year, this is just showing off!

Kevin Haynes

16th May at 14:13

After giving up on finding some where I am, I have been getting Pagès Verveine du Velay Verte and Jaune. Not quite the same or as good, but available and less expensive than the real stuff.

Rob de Santos

16th May at 12:51

I suspect availability varies greatly according to geography. Both the green and yellow still seem available at some level in Europe. VEP is harder to find and if you do, even pricier than it used to be.

A J Wilson

17th October 2025 at 21:48

Chartreuse in its purest form. I love it!

Ignacio Seligra

28th August 2025 at 10:16

How can it say 38,58% alc./vol. when the only 2 ingredients are 55% and 43%?? Does that include dilution? My old math teacher would say 49%!

Simon Difford

28th August 2025 at 11:49

Yes, our system allows for different levels of dilution, depending on the mixing method, volume, etc.

Justin Aniello

5th May 2025 at 00:47

A perfect ratio of the two, though I think I still prefer them on their own just to fully enjoy their differences. Will still break this out from time to time.

To those that say that so much chartreuse is heresy, a couple hundred years of people drinking it straight would highly disagree.

Ignacio Seligra

14th November 2024 at 19:19

Alcohol content of the undilluted mix must be a whopping 50%ABV, since it's 2 parts Green at 55%ABV and 1 part Yellow at 40% (my bottle says 40 and not 43).

Darren

24th July 2024 at 19:09

A great prelude to a religious experience, although the bar owner in Chartres clearly felt I was asking him to commit sacrilege.

Florian Ruf

22nd August 2023 at 17:08

I absolutely agree on the matter of dilution, some soda improves the cocktail very much. I even suggest to give it a splash of lemon juice to balance the sweetness. If you think this measures will diminish the Chartreuse feeling, you could add some drops of Chartreuse Elixir.

Brian Herring

12th January 2023 at 19:59

Im afraid that my view on this is sacrilege
Chartreuse should be used sparingly and with reverence not like Watchtower confetti, thrown at you from street corners
Chartreuse, like a good Cardinal, should be in the background supporting the Pope of Alcohol, not centre stage on the alter of cocktails.
Amen brothers and sisters.