Last Word Recipe

Last Word recipe — The cryptic intellectual who speaks in riddles but always has the final say. Made with gin. Originally from United States.

I'm that friend who disappeared for 80 years and came back speaking fluent mixology. Equal parts mysterious and sophisticated, I don't do anything halfway — every ingredient gets exactly the same respect. I'm basically the cocktail equivalent of a perfectly balanced debate team captain who also happens to be really, really green.

This cocktail completely vanished from bars for nearly 80 years until bartender Murray Stenson resurrected it at Seattle's Zig Zag Café in the early 2000s. It went from total obscurity to modern classic status faster than any cocktail in history.

Created at the Detroit Athletic Club around 1915, this equal-parts cocktail was the brainchild of bartender Frank Fogarty. Named after a popular vaudeville act, it became a Prohibition-era favorite before mysteriously disappearing from cocktail culture for eight decades.

Ingredients

• 0.75 oz gin (London Dry preferred)
• 0.75 oz green Chartreuse (the secret weapon)
• 0.75 oz maraschino liqueur (Luxardo if possible)
• 0.75 oz fresh lime juice

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients to shaker with ice.
2. Shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds until well chilled.
3. Double strain into chilled coupe glass.
4. Garnish with lime wheel or expressed lime peel.

Category: cocktail | Difficulty: medium | Base spirit: gin | ABV: 25.0-28.0%

Origin: United States