11/3/2022 0 Comments Corpse reviver no 1![]() ![]() What you’ll need:ġ oz cognac (anything Dupont works beautifully)ġ oz calvados (I prefer Pierre Ferrand 1840)ġ oz sweet vermouth (a robust one, like Carpano Antica Formula)Īdd all ingredients to a mixing glass, add ice, and stir. The Corpse Reviver #1, however, with its wine-like complexity, is the one I’d call for in the chillier months that we’re currently in. The Corpse Reviver #2 is probably the better known of the two printed in “The Savoy” which makes sense, it’s fun and flirty, easy drinking, and approachable. The Corpse Reviver family adhered to no templates, they were fancy drinks, “Beta Cocktails.” A bridge from the rigid uniformity of drink families to the fancier, sometimes too-fancy, drinks of today. ![]() If a Corpse Reviver can be anything from the #2 to the #1, then there are no rules within this category. If we compare the Corpse Reviver #1, a stirred, austere, would-be Manhattan variant, to the Corpse Reviver #2, a tart, floral, absinthe-laced sour, then the answer is no. It put in print for the first time the Corpse Reviver #1 and Corpse Reviver #2, two drinks that could not be more different.īut what were the parameters that allowed entry into this family? A Sour is sour, a Fizz is fizzed, a Flip has a whole egg, what made a Corpse Reviver a Corpse Reviver? Certainly there must be some defining characteristic in the recipe itself that earns its title. Could this umbrella term be considered a family of drinks unto itself? In 1930, Harry Craddock’s “The Savoy Cocktail Book” postulated that yes, it could. The Corpse Reviver was a title given to drinks that could wake the dead, shake the cobwebs off, or, less poetically, help with a hangover. ![]()
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