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Purgatory

Herbal · Nightcap/sipping · Short and stirred

4.0 163 ratings

Ingredients

1 2/3 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
1/2 oz Bénédictine D.O.M.
1/2 oz Chartreuse Green
1/6 oz Chilled water
2 drop Saline solution 4:1

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour profile

50.0% alc./vol. · 2.2 standard drinks · 213 calories

History

Too many and you're in it! A punchy, spirit-forward cocktail, perhaps better suited as a late-night nightcap.

Adapted from a recipe created in 2007 by Ted Kilgore at Taste in St. Louis, Missouri (or possibly Monarch Restaurant, Maplewood, Missouri), this drink's original proportions were 75ml (2½oz) Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey, 22.5 (¾oz) Bénédictine, and 22.5 (¾oz) Green Chartreuse. Gary "gaz" Regan began featuring this cocktail soon after its creation and published the recipe in his column in The San Francisco Chronicle.

Created by Ted Kilgore