Welcome to dia de Chartreuse. What are you drinking today?
Just to add on in case anyone is missing out. Green chartreuse in hot chocolate is amazing. It seems like it shouldn’t work but it does.
Not chartreuse. There’s a shortage here. That said my goto is a last word with yellow and lemon.
Yeah I have almost no yellow chartreuse left but was on a waiting list for the green (thinking it would take some months) and it came available much faster than anticipated so I do have a little more than a bottle of that. Not sure I will try to find it when that’s gone.
I requested this thread, but was on vacation in Paris so forgot to follow. I was able to get some Chartreuse, but even the bottle shops in Paris were saying Chartreuse was getting harder to find in France these days. With that said, here’s a recipe I made.
The Centenary:
2 oz Gin
1 oz Yellow Chartreuse
.5 oz Cocchi Storico Vermouth di Torino
2 dashes citrus bitters of your choice
Stirred, strained, served in a Coup or Nick and Nora. This is kind of a play on a Bijou.
The above was made by me misreading/misremembering the ingredients for a cocktail from a New Orleans restaurant called La Petite Grocery. Their cocktail was a white negroni riff called the “100 Year Cocktail.” I mixed up their Cocchi American with Cocchi Vermouth. So when trying to make their cocktail I think it is something like:
1.5 oz gin
.75 oz Yellow Chartreuse
.75 oz Cocchi Americano
For substitution of chartruse during the shortage consider:
Faccio Brutto Centerbe. It is green, but taste is closer to yellow chartreuse.
Dolin Genepy is a decent sub for green.
Strega. Yellow in color, but maybe a bit more herbal.
Ended up adjusting the “spicy with tequila” as I had neither mint nor agave sweetener.
2oz tequila
1 oz lime juice
1/2 oz Chartreuse
1/2 oz Giffard Blue Curacao (because I didn’t want to muddy the color but wanted a little sweet and citrus)
3 spoonfuls complex syrup (a reduced infusion with cinnamon & citrus zest)
2 dropperful of my habanero tincture
Not sure it kept with the spirit of the original recipe, was closer to a spicy margarita and the chartreuse kind of got lost. If doing again (not tonight - it was for sure a one and done) would do less lime, more Chartreuse, no sweetener, maybe a half ounce Ancho Reyes Verde. May try that for the rainbow day as it was certainly a beautiful color.