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

  1. Pour absinthe into the flute.
  2. Top with 4½ oz Champagne. Pour until it turns cloudy.

The original recipe, 1935

“Drink three to five of these slowly.”
Ernest Hemingway

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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