Gerty

Name: Gerty
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 23 ml Simple Syrup; 23 ml Peychaud's Bitters; 23 ml Rye Whiskey; 1 twst Lemon Twist; 23 ml Pastis

Equal parts rye whiskey, simple syrup, Peychaud's bitters and pastis, stirred and served with a lemon twist. Sweet and strongly anise-scented, with the bitters as a main ingredient rather than an accent. From 2010.

The Gerty is named after John Gertsen's Mission of Burma bar in Boston and serves as a tribute to the establishment.

Method

Stirred

Glass

rocks

Difficulty

Medium

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Herbal

Sweet