Named for a WWI field gun.
| 1 oz · 30 ml | GIN | 40 % |
| ¼ oz · 8 ml | ABSINTHE RINSE | 60 % |
| ½ oz · 15 ml | LEMON JUICE | |
| ½ oz · 15 ml | SIMPLE SYRUP | |
| 3 oz · 90 ml | CHAMPAGNE | 12 % |
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
| Pre-batch | 2.25 oz mixed with ice, 0.55 oz of it pure alcohol |
|---|---|
| Melt | Stirred: +15 % of the pre-batch, +0.34 oz of water |
| Topped | Poured after the melt, kept whole: champagne 3 oz, +0.36 oz of alcohol |
| Served | 2.25 + 0.34 + 3 = 5.59 oz in the glass, 0.91 oz of it alcohol |
| Strength | 0.91 ÷ 5.59 = 16.3 % ABV as served |
| Ethanol | 0.91 oz × 29.57 ml × 0.789 g/ml = 21 g · about 149 kcal from the alcohol alone |
FROM GIN
The pine note in juniper berries, and the reason gin tastes like a forest. Co-distilled with the spirit during production. Found in actual pine trees, rosemary, basil, and a good London Dry. The "Christmas tree" smell of gin and the smell of a forest floor share a single molecule.
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FROM ABSINTHE · the wormwood compound, mythologized
The wormwood compound that got absinthe banned for ninety years over a panic that turned out to be mostly wrong. A GABA-A antagonist at high doses, but the doses in actual absinthe, both modern and historical, were always too low to cause the hallucinations the lore promised. Bans lifted between 1988 and 2007 once the chemistry was finally measured properly.
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FROM LEMON · the lemon aroma
Lemon's defining note: technically a mix of two geometric isomers (geranial and neral) that read as the same aroma to the nose. Lemon peel, lemongrass, lemon verbena, and Indian chai all carry it. In cocktails it's what a lemon twist contributes that lemon juice can't: the volatile expressed from the oil glands, not the acid from the pulp.
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Gin, lemon and simple syrup, stirred and strained into an absinthe-rinsed coupe, then topped with Champagne. Alpha-pinene from juniper sits over citric acid, with anethole and thujone from the rinse. The standard recipe does not call for the absinthe wash, but a version without it would hold less excitement.
Named after the French 75mm field gun, a quick-firing artillery piece prized for its speed and accuracy. Harry MacElhone printed a '75' of gin, calvados and grenadine in his 1922 ABC of Mixing Cocktails; gin, lemon, sugar and champagne appeared in 1927's Here's How and the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book. The cognac-based variant, favored in New Orleans, is a later substitution.
