Drink · 4 min · 1 coupe
Corpse Reviver No. 2
Gin, Cointreau, Lillet and lemon in equal parts, with an absinthe rinse. It is a brunch drink and it is dangerously easy.
The sheet · 1 coupe · 4 min
mediumWhy tonight. Gin, Cointreau, Lillet and lemon in equal parts, with an absinthe rinse. It is a brunch drink and it is dangerously easy.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- gin
- cointreau
- lillet
- lemon
Method
- Equal parts gin, Cointreau, Lillet and lemon — ¾ oz each — with an absinthe rinse in the glass if you have it.
- Rinse means a few drops swirled round and tipped out. It is aroma, not an ingredient.
- Shake hard and strain up into the rinsed glass.
- The old note that four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse is not a joke: it drinks like lemonade and is nearly all spirit.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- gin
- Botanicals over a neutral base, and every bottle draws its own map — juniper-forward gin makes a bracing drink, a softer modern one makes a floral one.
- cointreau
- Clean bitter orange with real sweetness behind it, so it does two jobs in a sour and lets you use less syrup.
- lillet
- Fortified and aromatized wine, lightly bitter and citrusy, and it is perishable like vermouth.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
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Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.