Other Spirits: Absinthe
Absinthe Frappe Cocktail
Absinthe Frappe Cocktail Ingredients
1.25 oz. Duplais Verte Absinthe
2 oz. Soda
0.5 oz. Simple syrup
6-8 Loose mint leaves
Garnish
none
Absinthe Frappe Cocktail Preparation
Fill a Louis bag with ice and crush with a mallet. Combine all ingredients in a shaker and add crushed ice. Shake hard. Pour into a Pontarlier glass without straining. Add more ice and garnish with two sip stick straws.
Absinthe Frappe Cocktail Story
The Old Absinthe House at the corner of Bourbon Street and Iberville in New Orleans is where Catalonian bartender Cayetano Ferrer invented the famous Absinthe Frappés, in 1869. Known for his way with the potent spirit after tending the basement bar at the French Opera House, Ferrer mixed absinthe and sugar with lots of ice, a morning refreshment that soon drew a crowd of writers, like Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain, among other influential people. The drink even wound its way into Glen MacDonough’s Broadway musical It Happened in Nordland as the preferred hangover cure of its characters: “When life seems grey and dark the dawn, and you are through,/ There is, they say, on such a morn, one thing to do:/ Rise up and ring, a bell-boy call to you straight-way,/ And bid him bring a cold and tall absinthe frappé!”