Caesar Cocktail Recipe
Canada's savory answer to the Bloody Mary, built on spiced clam-and-tomato juice and finished with a celery salt rim.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Highball glass
- ABV: 10%
- Difficulty: Easy
- Prep time: ~4 min
Ingredients
- Vodka45 ml (1.5 oz)
- Clamato (clam and tomato juice)90 ml (3 oz)
- Fresh lime juice15 ml (0.5 oz)
- Worcestershire sauce3 dash
- Hot pepper sauce3 dash
- Celery salt (for the rim)1 pinch
How to Make It
- Rub a lime wedge around the rim of a highball glass and coat it with celery salt.
- Fill the glass with ice cubes.
- Add the vodka, lime juice, Worcestershire sauce and hot pepper sauce, then top with Clamato.
- Stir gently and garnish with a celery stalk and a lime wedge.
Garnish
A celery stalk and a lime wedge, with a celery salt rim.
What it tastes like
There is a spiced warmth to it.
The technique
Built in the glass. Ice goes into the serving glass, the ingredients go on top, and you stir once if at all. Anything carbonated goes in LAST and never gets stirred; every turn of the spoon costs you bubbles. Fill the glass to the rim with ice: less ice melts faster, not slower.
Glass and ice
A tall, narrow highball. The narrowness does real work — less surface area means the carbonation lasts longer and the ice melts more slowly.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Vodka
- Vodka brings body and alcohol rather than flavour; its job is to get out of the way of everything else. Which is why, in a vodka drink, how fresh the juice is matters far more than the brand.
- Fresh lime juice
- Freshly squeezed lime. Bottled lime tastes cooked and flat; one lime gives about 30 ml. If you have none, half lemon and half grapefruit juice comes closest.
The Story
Created in Calgary in 1969 for a hotel restaurant, the Caesar spread across the country and is now widely regarded as Canada's national cocktail.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Caesar mixed?
- It is built in the glass and served in a highball glass.
- How strong is a Caesar?
- Roughly 10% ABV as served — lighter than a beer — a long-conversation drink that takes a second round.
- Can a Caesar be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Caesar hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
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