Mythos Absinthe Cocktail: Herb West Julep or The Reagent Julep
1 1/2 oz Green Chartreuse
1/2 oz Butterfly Boston Absinthe
1/2 Eddy Mint Julep Syrup
Build drink in some labware half filled with crushed ice and give it a stir with a proper cGMP stirring rod. Fill to brim with more crushed ice and garnish with a bunch of mint. Feel the life surge back into your recently deceased cadaver and pray the pain ends soon.
“If it’s not West, it’s not the Best”
–@lovecrafttapes
As mentioned in my previous post, the Garden Fizz, the bundle picked up from The Eddy this week came with a Mint Julep set. This consisted of a huge wad of Mint Leaves and some handmade Mint Syrup. If you happened to actually see my initial Mint Julep Instagram post about this, I mentioned that I was all set to state that while this Syrup was probably very good, I expected my Mint Tea Syrup to be just a we bit better. It isn’t. I mean, it’s great, but I need to change it up a bit.
See, this syrup from the Eddy is freaking green with Mint bits. This would seem to bypass a whole step of muddling leaves on the bottom of the cup is there are already bits of leaves in the syrup itself. My concern doing it myself would be getting some off grassy flavors if I were to just pulverize Mint leaves into the syrup, but whatever alchemy they unveiled, it worked.
When I was making my standard Julep with this I knew I had to exploit that funky color. Those dark memories of forbidden elixirs from tomes of old came rushing back.
What is more iconic than the glowing green reagent created by the morally ambiguous scientist: Herbert West, Re-Animator? Forever burned into the lizard brains of all of us horror and Lovecraft junkies by the man Stewart Gordon, may he rest in peace, and the machine, Jeffrey Combs, may you live forever, even as a re-animated monstrosity.
It just seemed another natural addition to my sprawling list of Mythos Absinthe Cocktails, and it could really go to my Cocktails From Beyond as well if I thought about it too much. Not one to cheese out and use some sugary crap like Midori to get some color, I went instead with the lovely, HERBal, Green Chartreuse (see what I did there “Herb”al – “Herb”ert). I wasn’t too surprised at how well this worked, Chartreuse and Absinthe always work well together, especially with the always friendly Butterfly. That green gold in a bottle just makes everything better.
