First absinthe cocktail on the channel! I really like this one - it's bright and refreshing with big flavor. How do you guys feel about absinthe? 🧚♂️ As always, cheers to another week!
Always interesting to find an absinthe/anise cocktail that puts it as the forward flavour but retains balance, we get asked about absinthe dominant cocktails a lot so will refer them back to the Momisette for sure!
This is a lot like the Provençal drink the Mauresque, which uses pastis instead of absinthe and flat water. There's this whole series of variations with different syrups: the Tomate (with grenadine), the Parroquet (with bright green mint syrup), the Rourou (with strawberry syrup), etc.
All your videos are produced and edited so well, and I really enjoy them all. Can’t wait to see your channel blow up! You’re already putting out higher quality content than a lot of the much bigger channels in my opinion! Great job.
Amazing channel Anders! Loving your cocktail recipes! Absinthe was such a popular drink in the 1800's that it began to put the winemakers out of business and sparked a whole lot of counterfeit absinthe makers. It got so bad that the counterfeiters began to put copper sulfate into drinks to give them a nice green hue due to the lack of availability of absinthe. This eventually led to people dying from the toxicity of the copper sulfate and with political pressure from the winemakers, absinthe was banned. I highly recommend watching the documentary "Absinthe" from 2010 and of course keep drinking absinthe! To the bar!!!!
best fact I have (that you haven't mentioned already) is that it was never banned in the UK thanks to the fact that in the UK Absinthe was not popular, instead we have breweries fighting french winemakers by renaming the "Stale" style to barleywine, and thus one of my favourite styles of beer was born, and Absinthe remained legal in the UK and as unpopular as it had ever been until it was made legal in the Czech Republic and France years later.
I recently made this following your recipe and got very positive reviews. Thanks! Reminded me of liquid and boozy marzipan. Also, I didn't have any sparkling water, but I had an open bottle of prosecco.
Wow that is awesome. I tried a Momisette the other day with a more traditional recipe and found it okay for an aperitif or summer drink. But the lemon juice really lifts it up to another level.
Momisette is not an actual french word, though "momie" is French for mummy and the -ette suffix implies a smaller version of something. The "s" doesn't make sense though, given how French words are formed, but I guess it sounds better with it. No matter the name or its origin, this cocktail does sound delicious! Speaking of absinth cocktails, have you tried these? They're two of my favorite summer thirst quenchers : El Burro by Jim Meehan (His take on a Mexican Mule. The anise, ginger and pineapple flavors complement each other so well!) 1.5 oz reposado tequila .75 oz pineapple juice .75 oz lime juice .5 oz simple syrup .25 oz absinth 1 oz ginger beer Shake with ice, serve in a Collins filled with ice. Garnish with candied ginger and a lime wheel. First Post by Alastair Walker (The bitterness and "rootiness" of the gentian liqueur and the anise flavor from absinth add a beautiful complexity to this Tom Collins variation) 1.5 oz dry gin .5 oz Suze (I use Salers) 1 oz lime juice .75 oz simple syrup 2 dashes absinth (I use 5 mL, I feel like this really makes the cocktail come alive) top with soda water Shake with ice, serve in a Collins filled with ice. Garnish with a lime wedge. Enjoy 😇
If anyone’s looking for some absolutely amazing traditional absinthe’s check of Jade Liqueurs. They specialize in replicating some of the most famous and popular brands of the time (19th-early 20th century).
My best - famous drink on Absinth - is White Russian - Archer style …not so bad as Pamala’s mix would lead you to believe - do not come into that drink sober AND …be an Archer fan!
It just hit me, The Anders Erickson Ch is the adult version of Sesame Street... You don't talk DOWN to us, but its almost a loving big brother type feel. No?
The Interest for (ancient) Egypt also led to Egyptology. Meanwhile, the muslim slave raids throughout the Mediterranean prompted expeditions into northern Africa which, in turn, allowed for countless works of art and other pieces of archaeological interest to be saved and preserved. Anyway, whoever needs "egyptomania" as evidence that people are stupid should follow the mainstream media. Or, preferably, go out more... That being said, this is exactly the gateway into Absinth I was looking for 👍🥂
Didn't know that wormwood was the "fabled" ingrediance of absinthe, I've consumed my fair share of alcohol infused with this herb, quite common in swedish aquavit as a tradition. (Not that the internet particularly cares) but this past summer some of my friends made infusions with wormwood and Anis, and it was delicious :)
I spritz with absinthe. But don't like licorice, fennel, fennel seed, or anise. But I like your channel!!! So I'm here. But I still throw away all my black jujyfruit
I just want to say I appreciate putting an actual measurement to the sparkling water instead of "top with" as if everybody had the exact same glass and amount of ice in it.
Egyptomania goes wayyy back to the Romans. Rabbit hole all the obelisks that Augustus brought back to Rome after conquering Egypt that are still standing! Rome even has a pyramid (I live near it!)
oi, not sure about "momisette", but in late XIXth/early XXth century french, "mominette" was used meaning a smaller serving of alcohol, especially a smaller serving of absinthe (which was in its heyday). so "momisette" could be a later corruption of "mominette", which would make sense since "môme" means "kid" (allusion to the smaller quantity) and since -ine and -ette are rather common suffixes : even though the combo is somewhat rarer, it is definitely more likely to exist that the hypothetical suffix -ise... although... come to think of it, the only french word ending with -isette that could be related is "anisette", in which -ise is no suffix but part of the root "anis" (anise). and there we go, maybe "momisette" is a portmanteau that comes from an earlier absinthe cocktail (maybe one designed to have less alcohol than in the typical absinthe glass), in which the absinthe has been replaced by an anise spirit after absinthe got banned. or maybe the cocktail was created at that very moment, and the name was simp]ly chosen in reference to a "mominette" that was not a defined recipe but rather a general concept of a smaller absinthe glass. [please kindly consider the previous sentences a nothing more than educated guesses, from a linguistic perspective, which should not be regarded as facts until supported by other sourced materials] thx for the vids, always inspiring !
Further reading shows that absinthe wasn’t outlawed because of thujone. It was a political agenda due to wine sales lowering because of absinthe’s popularity.
This was good and showed me I need a better absinthe. Oregon Spirit isn't going to cut it for a drink like this. So I made it for a second time and used 3/4 of an ounce of lemon juice and a tiny bit of rich syrup which helped the bitterness but really I just have a blah bottle of absinthe.
Well I didn't have half the things for this recipe so I decided to riff on absinthe and almond. used: 1 part absinthe 1 part amaretto 1 part lemon juice (about a lemon's worth) 1/2 part simple shaken over ice plus 2 lemon peels, served on the rocks. Delicious! Could even use more amaretto :)
False. They lifted the ban when distillers reversed engineered a bittle from the 1800s and found the myth was just myth, they lobbied for the ban to be lifted.
I dunno if you're audience is too heavily American to worry about it but would love it if you could put the mL measures in the text along with the ounce measures to help us Europeans knock these up.
Just mixed it and it's awesome. Using La Fee Bohemian Absinth has a nice mint shade. The lemon juice does the trick. Really fresh. I Love your channel Anders. Former Bartender myself for about ten years. Now I'm in graphic design. The videos are also great in design and style. Very professional. Keep the cocktails coming.
Awesome to see a cocktail with an actual pour of Absinthe in it! Sounds really delicious, I'll try it out. :) The mummy talk was creepy though. 😂 Great video!
In the past, I have - at best - tolerated absinthe in a sazerac, etc. But I am a person who keeps an open mind and so I tried this drink. I am now a believer. Thank you, Anders, for this gateway to the dark side. The green side? Delicious. 💚
Being french, I was intrigued by the "momisette" and looked it up on French sites. It seems like the original French term was actually "mominette" or "petite môme" (little girl), not "petite momie" (little mummy). Mominette was slang for a drink (usually absinthe) served in a small glass. Don't ask me what it has to do with "môme" (girl or child in French slang) though...
If I can't find absinthe or if absinthe is a bit pricey for my current situation Would it be acceptable, albiet less true to form, to sub it for pastis or anisette?
Lol never knew this cocktail already had a name! Would have been nice to know when I tried to order it from a cocktail bar, but it still was so yummy! (sin lemon)
I am fascinated by the fact that unraveling parties were a thing in Victorian times, I fell into the rabbit hole too now. Thanks Anders, I was planning on being productive and stuff. 😆
In 2004 my friends and I in college ordered a bottle of Absinthe from the Czech Republic because we thought we would hallucinate. We got drunk…..we were dumb.
A famous California vintner I know grew wormwood and distilled absinthe. I acquired a bottle and made a lovely cocktail. The next day my memory of everything that happened the previous night had disappeared. I repeated the experiment and it happened again. If I drank the amount you suggest for this cocktail I would forget my entire childhood.
"Absinthe is strong." Yeah that's an understatement. You can get buzzed real quick. I hate licorice but I like the Absinthe by La Clandestine. It's complex & you don't taste just licorice, you get more. If I put it in cocktails it's no more than a tsp.
I made "this" but substituted green chartreuse for Absinthe and regs simple syrup I made for the orgeat. Was delish. Need to try your recipe though. Thanks!
My wife is from Colombia and one of their national liquors is aquardiente. It's also flavored with anise. I've made some great mojitos using it. I was wondering if you've tried it, or if you have tried making anything with it?
Made this with my Absinthe Maldoror and it is such a delicious cocktail. Definitely one of my new favorites and one I’d serve for someone who is curious about absinthe.
Interesting drink, similar to a Mauresque--2:1 or 1:1 absinthe and orgeat, served long and topped with still water. Something I don't particularly enjoy as I've yet to acquire a taste for absinthe 😑 Anyhoo, thanks for the vid!
