#BIJOU DRINK HOW TO#

Two- Fill a Soda straw with 110 proof Green Chartreuse. One – Chilled Champagne flute filled 2/3( about 4 OZ.) with “over chilled” premium champagne. No, I havenâ€™t had a Cronin Cocktail yet today, but I do have the fixins within arms reach of my desk. Certainly one of the main reasons why the Irish are such great romanticists and lovers. The De Bourgs migrated from France to Ireland Historically using the Chartreuse and Champagne is Irish. named after my grandfather Charles Burke Cronin. 1880â€™s, it has been called â€œGumby on Acidâ€ and now and for everâ€¦.

Since then at my Saloon in Norwich,CT, Wilsonâ€™s Historic Saloon, Est. I first put this togehter for New Years Eve 1989-90 and called it Your choice to start, or finish, or both, the Greatest Day of the Year. After reading the excellent recipes above, thought I would share this with your readers too. I sent this in For this months â€œone and doneâ€ Mixology Monday entry. Stir well with ice strain into chilled cocktail glass. If you need something that sounds kind of Irish on the big day, but want to avoid the typical crap, keep the Emerald name on the drink and go for it. (And I know this very same drink pops up again with a different name somewhere - no, I’m not thinking of the Tailspin, that’s got a dash of Campari in place of the orange bitters - so if anybody has better recall than I do, please chime in with a comment.)īut what the hell - Emerald, Bijou, whatever, it’s a nice drink. It’s almost enough to make you go on the wagon (fortunately, there’s Rick’s booze-whopper “Limit: One” Mixology Monday coming up, so I’ll be spared that particular inconvenience).īut hey, here it comes, and while preparing for my Serious Eats post earlier this evening I was digging through books looking for the earliest recipe for the Emerald I could find - this version, that is, not one of the handful of other drinks that have gone under that name - when I came across one such Emerald variation in Trader Vic’s Bartender’s Guide that seemed worth a shot.Īnd no wonder - after a closer look at the recipe, I had one of those “hey, wait a minute–” moments, and realized this is simply a Bijou wearing a different hat.

#BIJOU DRINK HOW TO#

And as someone who’s let this particular interest slip among colleagues and casual acquaintances, it’s the time of year when I invariably get asked how to make an Irish car bomb, or what’s my favorite green drink. It’s a time when the fair-weather drinkers like to lay into the stuff, making bars about the last place I want to be.

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