 Welcome back to Drinks Made Easy, because cocktails don't have to be difficult. Today we're taking a look at the Sazerak cocktail, first created by Anton Peshad in the 1830s, who was an apothecary who made a type of bitters named after him, which the principal aspect of that is Genshin root, whereas Angostura bitters would be cinnamon. So he made this drink for his friends using French brandy, some bitters, a little bit of sugar and a little bit of water, and it became known as the Peshad cocktail. In the 1850s, it becomes the first branded cocktail. Now there's often times some confusion as to whether the Sazerak or the Old Fashion is older, and it's kind of understandable because the Old Fashion is technically a punch. So that was around long before the Sazerak cocktail, which was designed to be an individual serving cocktail, and that was branded under the Sazerak name. Make sense? Okay, let's go ahead and make a Sazerak cocktail. If you haven't already, go ahead and click on the subscribe button and the bell icon so you'll be notified every time we release a new video. To build the Sazerak cocktail, start with one cube of sugar. Now I recommend Demerara sugar, which is unbleached sugar, or you can go with a white sugar cube if that's all you have. Three dashes of Peshad bitters and a light splash of soda water. This is going to help to break down the sugar cube and integrate the sugar, the Peshads. And basically the seltzer will work as a medium, because if you don't have all the ingredients integrated, you don't have all of your flavors. Makes sense, right? If you don't use a little touch of soda water, generally there will be a thick paste at the bottom of your glass, which is not going to blend. Next we're going to add two ounces of rye. If you're feeling froggy, you can always use bourbon or a different spirit. And next we're going to add ice. Now we stir. Now with a drink like this that's stirred, it's especially important to straw your cocktail. Because what you're playing with right now is the proper level of dilution, and if you're not strawing it, you're going to either over dilute or under dilute your cocktail. Needs a bit more. Into a pre-chilled glass, we're going to rinse it with absinthe. Now some folks will pour a little bit of absinthe in there, swirl it around. I find that tends to waste a bit of absinthe and not sometimes give you a really great coating. A great trick is to get basically a small spray bottle, fill it with absinthe so long as nothing else has been in it. Do not reuse perfume sprayers. You will poison yourself. Just get a spray bottle and give a nice rinse to your glass. Now you've got a rinse glass. Pour your sazarag in, peel of lemon, and easy as that, you have the classic sazarag cocktail. The sazarag is a classic alcohol forward drink. Now especially if you're a fan of absinthe because of the well-rinsed glass, this is awesome. If you hate absinthe, I don't think there's any way you're going to enjoy this cocktail. But if you like absinthe and you like old-fashioned and you haven't had a sazarag, it's time that you try one. Cheers from drinks made easy.