#BIJOU DRINK CRACKED#
#BIJOU DRINK FULL#

How I like it: I’ve seen several versions of this recipes calling for the same ingredients but in different proportions. Strain into your cocktail glass of choice and enjoy! Optionally, garnish with a cherry. Add in a couple dashes of bitters, and stir. Ingredients 1.

#BIJOU DRINK CRACKED#

In a shaker over cracked ice, pour in equal portions (1 ounce each) of gin, green chartreuse, and sweet vermouth. This updated version of the classic 1:1:1 Bijou recipe produces a smoother, more balanced, less chartreuse forward cocktail. What you’ll need: Gin, Green Chartreuse, Sweet Vermouth and Bitters Apparently someone didn’t factor the French translation. Boston De Luxe Official Bartender’s Guide twice! While searching for drinks to make with green chartreuse, I found entries for the Bijou and the Jewel cocktails. I don’t know what herbs the monks use to distill this drink, but it’s definitely a wake-me-up restorative.Īnecdotally, I noticed this drink in my trusty 1964 edition of Old Mr. Acquiring a bottle more recently, I’ve mended my erroneous opinion. At the time, I thought it similar to Pernod, an anise-flavored drink. It was created by Harry Johnson and in French, Bijou means jewel and it received this name because the drink is made by mixing three very famous drinks that are considered to be jewels. Having tasted Green Chartreuse before we didn’t bother giving the new bottle a sample before adding 1/2 ounce to the shaker.

#BIJOU DRINK FULL#

I first tried Green Chartreuse “on the rocks” in London over a decade ago. The Bijou cocktail is one of the most famous French cocktails and comes from the martini family of cocktails. The Bijou called for more spirit than our little sample size had left in it so I cracked open a full sized bottle for the drink last night. Aged with herbs, the French liqueur comes in both yellow and green, although the green variety appears to be more widely available. Chartreuse has been made by Carthusian monks since 1737. Chartreuse is one of the very few alcohols that keep ageing in bottle and this cocktail is for real connoisseurs of spirits who wants to. The key ingredient-and the most distinctive-is the green chartreuse. Professional bartender Harry Johnson is credited with the drink’s creation which is French for “jewel.” Apparently, the colors of the ingredients reminded Harry of jewels: gin (diamond), sweet vermouth (ruby), and green chartreuse (emerald). 1 oz Sweet Vermouth 1 dash Orange Bitters 1 piece Lemon Peel. The Bijou is a classic cocktail dating back to the 1890s. this is a somewhat drier version of the classic cocktail included in the Harry. Enjoy a jewel of a cocktail this Friday with the elegant Bijou!

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