About this cocktail
The Sazerac was created in 1832 by Antoine Amadie Peychaud, a Creole Apothecary who set up the Sazerac Coffe House in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the early 19th Century.
Rumoured to be the first use of the word cocktail and oldest cocktail in America, Peychaud named his concoction the ‘Sazerac Cocktail’ and served his medicinal tincture in a double ended egg cup thought to inspire the jigger we use in bartending today.
Now a gun store, the apothecary also dispensed a proprietary mix of aromatic bitters from an old family recipe, which is sold today as Peychaud bitters.
