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Remember the Maine

Classic/vintage · Hall of Fame and must know/try · Nightcap/sipping

4.2 170 ratings

Ingredients

1 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
1/2 oz Bourbon whiskey
1/2 oz Rosso/sweet vermouth
1/4 oz Cherry brandy
2 dash Absinthe

How to make

Serve in a nick & nora glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

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 discard.
  2. 6 Garnish with skewered cherry.

Flavour profile

50.0% alc./vol. · 1.5 standard drinks · 155 calories

History

Charles H. Baker advises on this Sazerac variation, "Treat this one with the respect it deserves, gentleman." Previously, the method involved rinsing a chilled old-fashioned glass with absinthe before pouring the stirred cocktail into it without ice. However, the drink presents better and is more suitably appreciated when served in a Nick & Nora glass. For those preferring larger coupe proportions, the following measures are suggested: 45ml (1½oz) Bottled-in-bond straight rye whiskey 22.5ml (¾oz) Straight Bourbon 22.5ml (¾oz) Rosso vermouth 10ml (⅓oz) Cherry Heering 3 dashes Absinthe

Adapted from a recipe by Charles H. Baker Junior. In his 1939 The Gentleman's Companion he writes of this cocktail, "a Hazy Memory of a Night in Havana during the Unpleasantnesses of 1933, when Each Swallow Was Punctuated with Bombs Going off on the Prado, or the Sound of 3" Shells Being Fired at the Hotel NACIONAL, then Haven for Certain Anti-Revolutionary Officers." The cocktail is named after the press slogan, "Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain," blaming Spain for the unexplained sinking of the U.S.S. Maine off Cuba in 1898. This helped provoke the 1898 Spanish-American War. Some link the origin of this cocktail back to the very similar McKinley's Delight cocktail in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 book Old Waldorf Bar Days. MCKINLEY'S DELIGHT* One dash Absinthe Two dashes Cherry Brandy Two-thirds Whiskey One-third Italian Vermuth Stir; strain