The Last Word

A classic cocktail thats simple to make but has a complex taste.

• .75oz Green Chartreuse
• .75oz Gin (I used Beefeater Gin)
• .75oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
• .75oz Luxardo Maraschino

Shake and strain into a coupe or nick and nora and enjoy your drink!

Green Chartreuse is an amazing herbal alcohol with 130 ingredients and a bad ass story. In 1605 a soldier in the army of French King Henry the 4th gave his original recipe for an "elixir of long life" to carthusian monks living near Grenoble.

By 1764 they had begun producing it for the general public. Then shit gets spicy.1793. It's the french revolution. The monks along with most religious orders get booted out of France. They peeled to Spain with their original recipe, but the monk holding it was arrested and detained. I'm not saying where he hid it but you can guess.

Later Napoleon happens and the monks move home to their monastery. Then in 1903 the French kick them out again. They head back to their second HQ in Spain and keep making that good shit.

While the monks are in Spain some French businessmen get their hands on the original recipe and distillery and start their own company. For a while there are two competing Green Chartreuse brands.

Eventually the imposters hit hard times and they sell all their shares, the original recipe and the original distillery to another group of French people. They gift the shares, recipe and distillery back to the original order of monks who were still in Spain. They move back to France and set up shop in their old digs.

In 1935 a mudslide destroys their distillery but the French government steps in like real bros and builds them a new one, despite their operation technically still being illegal. After WWII the French government formally lifts the laws preventing their religious order from operating in France.

The monks continue to make their booze to this day, living drunkily ever after. The end thanks for reading the ravings of a booze nerd.

Also the shade of green called chartreuse is named after the alcohol, not the other way around.

Image and recipe courtesy of @thenickromancer.

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