Seelbach Recipe
Bourbon and orange liqueur under Champagne, with an unusually heavy hand of two bitters — dry, spicy and rust-coloured.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Flute glass
- ABV: 18%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Bourbon30 ml (1 oz)
- Cointreau15 ml (0.5 oz)
- Angostura bitters5 dash
- Peychaud's bitters5 dash
- Champagne90 ml (3 oz)
How to Make It
- Stir the bourbon, Cointreau and both bitters briefly with ice.
- Strain into a chilled flute.
- Top slowly with cold Champagne.
- Garnish with a long orange twist.
Garnish
Orange twist
The Story
Long presented as a lost pre-Prohibition recipe from the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky; in 2016 bartender Adam Seger, who put it on the hotel's menu in the 1990s, admitted he had invented it himself.
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