Stirred Art
Recipes · Halloween week
Death in the Afternoon
Like a Mimosa, but with absinthe.
Hemingway’s own recipe, and it is deadly indeed.
Ingredients
- 1½ oz 45 mlAbsinthe
- 4½ oz 135 mlChampagne
- built
- flute
- No garnish
Method
- Pour absinthe into the flute.
- Top with 4½ oz Champagne. Pour until it turns cloudy.
The original recipe, 1935
“Drink three to five of these slowly.”
Taste
How the Death in the Afternoon tastes
It's mostly herbal, bitter and sour. In the app, your own taste shows on top of this chart as a dashed line.
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