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my favorite cocktail these days is the bijou, which you can think of as a negroni with green chartreuse instead of campari, and with orange bitters—you wouldn't
by jsbg 1y ago
my favorite cocktail these days is the bijou, which you can think of as a negroni with green chartreuse instead of campari, and with orange bitters—you wouldn't think chartreuse and italian vermouth would make a good drink but it's fantastic
bonus if garnished with a green olive
- jfengel 1y agoI'm out of chartreuse. Think it'll work with absinthe?
- jamestimmins 1y agoThat'll give you a totally different drink. Chartreuse and absinthe both have strong but different flavors; not to mention that a bijou has 3/4oz of chartreuse but that much absinthe would totally overpower any other ingredient.
- voxadam 1y agoIt would be radically different. I love absinthe but there's a special place in my heart for Green Chartreuse. Damn, now I want a Last Word.
- p1necone 1y agoChartreuse doesn't really have any good substitutes that I can think of, it's got a very distinct flavour that's nothing like absinthe (I like to lovingly describe it as lawn steeped in everclear). Still make the drink with absinthe and see how it goes though - it'll taste totally different but it might still be good, and the ABV and (lack of) sweetness of chartreuse and absinthe are at least fairly close.
- mkozlows 1y agoGenepy is the best substitute. But now that the monks aren't making as much, other subs have popped up. But definitely not absinthe.
- voxadam 1y agoIn my opinion, Genepy is a decent substitute for Yellow Chartreuse, not so much for Green. Green has a very herbal flavor where yellow tends to be more floral.
- jsbg 1y agoin the best case you'll invent a new drink but I doubt it'll be very good; start with a very small amount instead of using the same proportions as with chartreuse and you may get somewhere interesting, like a gin sazerac kind of drink
- williamdclt 1y agoFinding Chartreuse is harder than it used to be. The monks decided to reduce production.
- moehm 1y agoNo, they didn't reduce production, they just stopped scaling it with the rising demand. Chartreuse got very popular in the last few years, and the monks started to produce more, but now they are at a point where they feel they a) earn enough money for the monastery and b) they claim scaling further hurts the sustainability. So instead of producing more, they allocate the existing stock mostly to the hospitality business instead of the private consumer.
- williamdclt 1y agoLooks like you're right! A lot of articles are claiming reduction, but that doesn't seem correct