Drink · 4 min · 1 coupe
Last Word
Equal parts gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino and lime. Nothing about that sounds like it should work and it is one of the great drinks.
The sheet · 1 coupe · 4 min
mediumWhy tonight. Equal parts gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino and lime. Nothing about that sounds like it should work and it is one of the great drinks.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- gin
- chartreuse
- maraschino
- lime
Method
- Equal parts gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino and lime — ¾ oz each. Shake hard, strain up.
- Chartreuse is 55% and enormously herbal. It runs the drink whether you want it to or not.
- Do not scale the equal parts up past ¾ oz each unless you have somewhere to be at nine in the morning.
- A tenth of an ounce off in any direction and it stops being balanced, which is why it is a good drink to jigger rather than free-pour.
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.
- chartreuse
- Enormously herbal and enormously strong, made to a recipe almost nobody knows.
- maraschino
- Dry, funky cherry-pit liqueur that tastes nothing like a jarred cherry.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
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
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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.