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# Brews You Can Use VI
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3992/
- Published: 2006-02-17T23:54:37.000Z
- Updated: 2006-02-17T23:54:37.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Brews you can use, and an historical miniature. Plus, I'd never heard of the drink, so I'm guessing others will find it novel, too:Â

> The Sazerac, purportedly America's first cocktail, is the emblematic drink of New Orleans. As originally made in the 1850s, it was a blend of Sazerac brandy and sugar, along with bitters invented in the late 1700s by Antoine Amedie Peychaud, a West Indian apothecary. By the 1870s a bartender at the Sazerac Coffee House is said to have added the touch of pouring it into a glass first swirled with a few drops of absinthe. In time rye whiskey, more popular and cheaper, was substituted for the brandy, and Herbsaint, a local anisette first sold in 1933 as an absinthe substitute (absinthe was banned in 1912) came to be used for the swirling.

> The trinity of Sazerac ingredients survived Hurricane Katrina: Herbsaint liqueur, Peychaud's Bitters, and Sazerac 18 Year Old Rye Whiskey. All are owned by the Sazerac Company, headquartered in New Orleans in a building that itself survived the storm. The bitters and the whiskey are made in limited quantities in Frankfort, Kentucky, by the Buffalo Trace Distillery; for more information, see [www.buffalotrace.com](http://www.buffalotrace.com/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

[*Atlantic Monthly* Link](http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200603/sazerac?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).