# Absinthe

A strongly aromatic spirit traditionally flavoured with wormwood, anise, fennel, and other botanicals.

Parent category: [Spirit](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/spirit.md)

Alcohol: 60% ABV

## Cocktails

- [100-Year-Old Cigar](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/100-year-old-cigar.md): Aged rum becomes a dark after-dinner drink under Cynar, Bénédictine, peat, bitters, and the lingering aroma of an absinthe-rinsed glass.
- [Absinthe Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-cocktail.md): Anisette and aromatic bitters season a water-softened absinthe base in this short, shaken modern metric reading of the recipe Jerry Thomas published.
- [Absinthe Frappé](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-frappe.md): A bracing New Orleans cooler that softens absinthe’s anise and herbs with mint, sugar, soda, and crushed ice.
- [Absinthe Suissesse](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-suissesse.md): Absinthe turned plush and pale with cooling mint, almond, cream, orange blossom, and a dense egg-white foam.
- [Arsenic and Old Lace](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/arsenic-and-old-lace.md): Violet perfume threads through a dry gin Martini while a discarded absinthe rinse leaves only an anise shadow, making this modern normalization much lighter than the startling 1941 namesake.
- [Blackthorn (Irish)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/blackthorn-irish.md): Irish whiskey and dry vermouth form an austere, aromatic cocktail seasoned with absinthe and Angostura.
- [Chrysanthemum](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chrysanthemum.md): A lower-proof, vermouth-led classic scented with honeyed Bénédictine, absinthe, and orange.
- [Corpse Reviver No. 2](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/corpse-reviver-no-2.md): An equal-parts gin sour combining Cointreau, Lillet Blanc, lemon, and a bracing dash of absinthe.
- [Death in the Afternoon](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/death-in-the-afternoon.md): Absinthe turns cold Brut Champagne opalescent, aromatic, and formidable in Ernest Hemingway’s stark 1935 contribution to the cocktail canon.
- [Doctor Funk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/doctor-funk.md): Ester-rich Jamaican rum, two fresh citrus juices, grenadine, absinthe, and soda make an anise-led sparkling cooler with genuine Samoan ancestry and modern tiki force.
- [Green Beast](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-beast.md): Absinthe, lime, cucumber, sugar, and cold water make Charles Vexenat’s long green drink vivid and vegetal rather than merely anise-heavy.
- [Green Fairy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-fairy.md): Absinthe leads lemon, rich syrup, aromatic bitters, and egg white in Dick Bradsell’s poised, foaming 1990s London sour.
- [Improved Holland Gin Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/improved-holland-gin-cocktail.md): Malt-weighted genever carries the nineteenth-century improved-cocktail grammar of sugar, bitters, curaçao, and absinthe without relying on vermouth.
- [Improved Whiskey Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/improved-whiskey-cocktail.md): Rye is improved in the nineteenth-century sense with tiny measures of maraschino, sugar, absinthe, and bitters, preserving the whiskey's shape while connecting the Old Fashioned to the Sazerac.
- [La Louisiane](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/la-louisiane.md): A deeply aromatic New Orleans rye cocktail layered with sweet vermouth, Bénédictine, absinthe, and Peychaud’s bitters.
- [London Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/london-cocktail.md): London dry gin is subtly sweetened and sharpened with absinthe, orange bitters, lemon oils, and an olive.
- [Monkey Gland](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monkey-gland.md): Gin and fresh orange sharpened by absinthe and grenadine.
- [Obituary](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/obituary.md): A bone-dry gin Martini transformed by a small, haunting measure of absinthe.
- [Parisian Dispatch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/parisian-dispatch.md): Sother Teague turns blanc vermouth, absinthe, orgeat, and soda into a pale, mint-crowned highball that is long, aromatic, and genuinely low proof.
- [Remember the Maine](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/remember-the-maine.md): A rye and vermouth cocktail deepened with cherry brandy and an absinthe rinse.
- [Savoy Hotel Special Cocktail No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/savoy-hotel-special-cocktail-no-1.md): A tiny trace of grenadine and absinthe pulls a two-to-one dry Gin Martini into the theatrical but still austere world of the Savoy bar.
- [Sazerac](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sazerac.md): Cognac, sugar, and Peychaud’s bitters served in an absinthe-rinsed glass.
- [The Joy Division](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/the-joy-division.md): A dry gin Martini brightened with Cointreau and a restrained measure of absinthe.
- [Turf Club](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/turf-club.md): Dry gin and vermouth become unusually dimensional under measured accents of maraschino, absinthe, and orange bitters, placing this turn-of-the-century Martini relative beside but not inside the Tuxedo family.
- [Tuxedo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tuxedo.md): Old Tom gin and vermouth accented with maraschino, absinthe, and bitters.
- [Tuxedo No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tuxedo-no-1.md): Equal dry gin and vermouth, a broad lemon peel, and absinthe make Harry Craddock’s 1930 Tuxedo branch austere, aromatic, and deliberately distinct from the sweeter original.
- [Yellow Daisy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/yellow-daisy.md): Equal gin and dry vermouth meet rich orange liqueur and an absinthe accent in a compact, bracing Savoy relative of the Martini.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/absinthe
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- Source: https://absinthe-interprofession.ch/download/91/