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Made with an Old Tom gin with amplified botanicals and minimal sugar (some are way too sweet), this is a spirituous and, if you hit the right dilution...
Excellent ratio as is, though I can understand wanting a higher gin ratio if you are looking for something closer to a martini. I also see why making sure you don't have a sugary gin is mentioned as the chartreuse almost pushes it into sweet territory with the 2:1 ratio.
Always a great drink when you feel the hankering for Yellow chartreuse or digging out the Old Tom….plus I was breaking a a “new” ( to my collection ) antique cocktail glass I picked up.
Even with the 3:1 (as in Robert Simonson's The Martini Cocktail), or 2:1 gin to chartreuse with a London dry gin, the yellow chartreuse is still a little overpowering for me (although I do like chartreuse!) so I tried 6:1. I guess your own taste can be as disparate as your preferred gin to vermouth ratio in a proper martini!
The variant of this I love is Jim Kearns' take. 2.25 oz Old Tom Gin, 0.75 oz Yellow Chartreuse, 1 dash of orange bitters, stir. The soft Old Tom, and the 3:1 ratio make this drink have a great volume, and a silky drinkability that are just awesome. Also, with no explanation as to why this drink is called "Alaska" might I suggest that it's gold color was a nod to the gold rush in Alaska at the time, hence the connection bar patrons would have naturally made at the time!
I never considered the Nome as connected to the Alaska Gold Rush, and I don't know why. This all makes so much more sense now! I love this dual-research thing, and I really think we got it! Thanks so much!