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Remember the Maine
Coupe
Glass
Cocktail cherry
Garnish
Ingredients
- - 2 oz rye whiskey
- - 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
- - 1/2 oz cherry liqueur
- - Absinthe, for rinsing the glass
Method
- Rinse a chilled coupe with absinthe and discard the excess.
- Stir remaining ingredients with ice.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
Description: A Manhattan variant sharpened with cherry liqueur and a rinse of absinthe.
Garnish: Cocktail cherry
Note: Named after the USS Maine, whose sinking in 1898 helped trigger the Spanish-American War; the recipe dates to the 1930s.