Bartenders Craft Housemade Chartreuse

For a liqueur based on a recipe that’s endured for 300+ years, Chartreuse is remarkably useful for contemporary cocktails. Made by Carthusian monks for more than three centuries, the herbal French liqueur is a secret blend of 130 herbs, flowers and other ingredients, and appears in many classics, including with gin and maraschino in the Last Word, and gin, sweet vermouth and orange bitters in the Bijou. The bright green liqueur (a yellow version is lower-proof and sweeter...