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Death in the Afternoon Cocktail

Mixed Drink Recipe from Cocktail Builder

1.5 oz of absinthe
4.5 oz of Champagne

Pour the absinthe into a Champagne flute. Top with the Champagne. Champion drinker Ernest Hemingway claimed to have invented the Death in the Afternoon cocktail himself. His exact instructions suggested adding iced Champagne to a jigger of absinthe until it attained "the proper opalescent milkiness," then proceeding to drink three to five of the cocktails in one sitting.

Easy cocktails with absinthe

Death in the Afternoon
Green Deacon
Demon of Destiny
Highspeed
Rocky
TNT Cocktail
Daywalker's Blood
Toadpole (N�nuphar)
Redline
Dead Man Walking
PRESCRIPTION SAZERAC
Absinthe Frappe
Green Beast
To Hell with Spain
Absinthe Colada
EVA GIMLET
Seafoam Fizz
Not Coming Home
Recherché
Stormin' Normandy

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