Gladstone

Name: Gladstone
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 dash Angostura Bitters; 1 tsp Gomme Syrup; 45 ml Rye Whiskey; 2 dash Absinthe; 1 tsp Aquavit; 1 tsp Maraschino Liqueur; 1 dash Jamaican Rum

A stirred rye whiskey drink, lightly sweetened with gomme syrup and layered with absinthe, aquavit, maraschino liqueur, Angostura bitters and a dash of Jamaican rum. Credited to William Schmidt in 1891.

The Gladstone is credited to William Schmidt, around 1891. Schmidt emigrated from Hamburg to Chicago in 1869 and moved to New York in 1884, and in 1889 opened a bar on Broadway near Park Row together with a business partner.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Dry

Herbal

Spicy

Strong