my favorite cocktail these days is the bijou, which you can think of as a negroni with green chartreuse instead of campari, and with orange bitters—you wouldn't think chartreuse and italian vermouth would make a good drink but it's fantastic

bonus if garnished with a green olive

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williamdclt 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Finding Chartreuse is harder than it used to be. The monks decided to reduce production.

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moehm 2 days ago | parent [-]

No, they didn't reduce production, they just stopped scaling it with the rising demand.

Chartreuse got very popular in the last few years, and the monks started to produce more, but now they are at a point where they feel they a) earn enough money for the monastery and b) they claim scaling further hurts the sustainability.

So instead of producing more, they allocate the existing stock mostly to the hospitality business instead of the private consumer.

	▲	williamdclt a day ago \| parent [-]
		Looks like you're right! A lot of articles are claiming reduction, but that doesn't seem correct

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jfengel 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm out of chartreuse. Think it'll work with absinthe?

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jamestimmins 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

That'll give you a totally different drink. Chartreuse and absinthe both have strong but different flavors; not to mention that a bijou has 3/4oz of chartreuse but that much absinthe would totally overpower any other ingredient.

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voxadam 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It would be radically different. I love absinthe but there's a special place in my heart for Green Chartreuse.

Damn, now I want a Last Word.

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p1necone 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Chartreuse doesn't really have any good substitutes that I can think of, it's got a very distinct flavour that's nothing like absinthe (I like to lovingly describe it as lawn steeped in everclear).

Still make the drink with absinthe and see how it goes though - it'll taste totally different but it might still be good, and the ABV and (lack of) sweetness of chartreuse and absinthe are at least fairly close.

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mkozlows 2 days ago | parent [-]

Genepy is the best substitute. But now that the monks aren't making as much, other subs have popped up.

But definitely not absinthe.

	▲	voxadam 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		In my opinion, Genepy is a decent substitute for Yellow Chartreuse, not so much for Green. Green has a very herbal flavor where yellow tends to be more floral.

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jsbg 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

in the best case you'll invent a new drink but I doubt it'll be very good; start with a very small amount instead of using the same proportions as with chartreuse and you may get somewhere interesting, like a gin sazerac kind of drink