The Grasserac Cocktail
By: Ben Myhre
Published: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 9:22am

Ingredients




1 Old Fashioned Glass
1 Mixing Vessel for muddling, mixing, and straining
Ice
Water
1 stick of lemongrass
1 Sugar Cube (SEE NOTES)
4 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Dash Water
1 ounce of hemp vodka
1 ounce rye whiskey
Splash of absinthe

Preparation

1 ​Fill Old Fashioned Glass with Ice and cold water 2 In mixing vessel, add 1 sugar cube and add bitters 3 Add 1 " of the stick of lemongrass 4 Add a splash of water 5 Muddle 6 Add ice to mixing vessel 7 Add vodka and whiskey 8 Add whiskey 9 Empty the glass filled with ice water 10 Add the splash of absinthe and swirl around to try and coat inside of glass 11 Dump any remaining absinthe 12 Using mixing spoon, stir whiskey vodka concoction for about 10 seconds 13 Strain into empty glass 14 Garnish with remaining lemongrass stick 15 SERVE

About


The bad boy of the Sazerac is its absinthe. Pair that with hemp infused vodka for a double dose of bad boy with The Grasserac!  One of a Sazerac’s key ingredients, absinthe, has been demonized for a very long time. As I learned while looking at absinthe history, the drink was banned in the US in the early 1900s. Somewhere along the way, they figured out the demonization was a bunch of hooey and in 2007 was reinstated as a legal spirit in the US. These demonized ingredients pair to make a great cocktail.