Brandy, Rye, Bourbon, Absinthe, New Orleans Red and Aromatich-ish Bitters. A traditional Sazerac is served up (no ice) in a rocks glass. But the problem here is it gets warm very quickly. So to combat this, I started using frozen glassware. But later decided to take it a step further and just stick the whole drink in the freezer for an hour to get it extra extra cold and it resulted in what I think is the perfect sazerac. Really, the colder the sazerac the better. This recipe can be scaled by the drink or by the bottle! Then you can have extremely chilled sazeracs at any time with zero on-the-fly work. The extra chill also gives it a lovely velvety viscosity.
If you don’t have both rye and bourbon, feel free to combine the two listed and just use all rye or all bourbon. If your whisky is cask-strength (higher than 48%), you might want to increase the water dilution to 3/4 oz or even 1 oz. This recipe also slightly differs from a traditional variation in that I don’t bother with an Absinthe rinse and just add 1/8 oz Absinthe straight to the glass cause I like it a little more anise forward.
Try the pre batched, full bottle version! Dilution water is already added to both the single drink version and the pre-batched version so do not stir over ice to chill or anything like that, chilling is done in the freezer.
Pour all ingredients into your favourite rocks glass, without ice, stir and then store in the freezer for at least 1 hour until well chilled. Before you’re ready to drink, get yourself a lemon peel then pull your drink from the freezer, express the lemon over your tasty beverage and drop that peel in the glass. Enjoy!
Recipe Note
For a pre-batched bottle of Sazerac yielding 500ml (fits great in an Esquimalt bottle!) Add all ingredients to the bottle and store in freezer. If it gets a little slushy-like, your freezer might be too cold. Ideal range is -10C to -15C. If using cask-strength whisky, you might want to scale whole recipe volume back by a few percent to allow for a bit more dilution water to fit in the bottle.
110 mL (3.75 oz) Brandy / Lady of the Cask - Maple Leaf Spirits 110 mL (3.75 oz) Rye / Stillhead Distillery 110 mL (3.75 oz) Bourbon / B-Word - Stillhead Distillery 22 mL (0.75 oz) Absinthe / Baba Yaga - Arbutus Distillery 55 mL (2 oz) 2:1 Rich Simple Syrup 17 dashes New Orleans Red Bitters / Rootside Bitters 6 dash Aromatic-ish Bitters / Rooside Bitters 82 mL (2.75 oz) Cold water
