# Anise spirit

A distilled spirit led by anise and supporting herbs, used in tiny measures to give drinks a cool, penetrating aromatic edge.

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

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Types

- [Pastis de Marseille](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/pastis-de-marseille.md): 45% ABV. A French pastis with pronounced anise and liquorice character, bottled at no less than 45% ABV and turning opalescent when diluted with water.

## Cocktails

- [151 Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/151-swizzle.md): Donn Beach's formidable swizzle, driving overproof Demerara rum through lime, sugar, aromatic bitters, and a cool thread of anise.
- [Cobra's Fang](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cobras-fang.md): Overproof Demerara rum drives orange, lime, passion fruit, falernum, bitters, and anise through crushed ice in a direct and unusually severe Donn Beach punch.
- [Jet Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/jet-pilot.md): Three rums, two citrus juices, cinnamon, falernum, anise, and bitters form a compact Luau-era tropical drink with uncommon power and precision.
- [Steve’s Rum Barrel](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/steves-rum-barrel.md): Steve Crane’s huge Kon-Tiki barrel balances two full measures of rum against four fresh juices, passion fruit, honey, and precise traces of almond and anise.
- [Test Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/test-pilot.md): Donn Beach's compact rum drink layers Jamaican and light rum with lime, falernum, orange, bitters, and a trace of anise.
- [Twenty Seventy Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/twenty-seventy-swizzle.md): Contrasting rum styles carry lime, honey, demerara, allspice, anise, bitters, and nutmeg through Martin Cate and Ron Roumas’s dark modern swizzle.
- [Zombie](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/zombie.md): Donn Beach's formidable 1934 rum rhapsody, layered with citrus, cinnamon, spice, anise, and enough overproof depth to justify its legendary two-drink limit.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/anise-spirit
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/anise-spirit-7ee345e9.webp
- Source: https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en/brands/pernod