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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway, from ‘Death in the Afternoon’
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askwhatsforlunch · 3 months
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Death in the Afternoon
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As you'd expect from a cocktail created by Ernest Hemingway, --and I'd give a lot to get my hand on So Red The Nose, a 1935 little tome in which famous authors wrote the recipe of their favourite tipples-- Death in the Afternoon is a rather potent sip, although the effervescence of Champagne does balance the herbaceous vigour of absinthe rather well. The recipe is a simple one: "Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly," recommends the great author! Well, depending on what you wish to do this arvo, just the one may be fine! Happy Friday!
Ingredients (serves 1):
45 millilitres/ 1 1/2 fluid ounces (3 tablespoons) absinthe
well-chilled Champagne, to top
Pour absinthe into a Champagne coupe.
Top with well-chilled Champagne, "until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness" Hemingway mentions.
Enjoy Death in the Afternoon immediately, and preferably yes, "slowly"! Cheers!
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crownedstoat · 6 months
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Tonight’s libation is a Coma in the afternoon from Anders Erickson’s recipe.
1 oz Absinthe
3 oz Champagne
1/4 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz semi rich simple syrup
Put the lemon and simple syrup in a mixing pitcher with ice add the absinthe and admire the louche the stir until chilled. Pour into a coupe or champagne glass and add the champagne. Ernest Hemingway advised to drink 3 to 5 Death in the afternoons but I’m not a large, Nobel prize winning writer so I’ll start with one.
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oyvinja · 8 months
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In the book, Hemingway says: “Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.”
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elizabethanism · 2 years
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“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after.”
Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon
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barwithnodoors · 2 years
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What's green and will leave you smashed?
Death in the Afternoon
Pour 1 oz Absinthe into a champagne flute (or in Bruce Banner's case an Erlenmeyer Flask) and top with sparkling wine.
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drinkacefahz · 2 years
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A Good Doctor’s Lagniappe 
 Sinner's Sazerac 
“Just a little somethin' we have here in Louisiana. Little parlor trick, don't worry.”
30.43% ABV | Yield: 3.08 fl oz | Themed Cocktail, Fandom Cocktail. Classic, Pre-Prohibition, New Orleans . Improved Cocktail, 19th Century 
2 oz or 60ml Brandy 
2 tsp or 10 ml demerara syrup 
3-5 dashes Peychaud's Aromatic Cocktail Bitters 
1 Lemon twist 
Express oils from lemon peel and regal stir*, strain into chilled neat glass that you have rinsed with or spritzed with absinthe verte. 
Drink your sins and follow with 
Retour de la Mort 
“-I HOPE you’re SATISFIED! But if you ain’t-- don’t blame me...” 
15.51% ABV | Yield: Approx 1.5 fl oz |  Themed Cocktail, Fandom Cocktail, Champagne Cocktail, Chaser/Back, Shooter
Soak sugar cube with absinthe verte in shot glass or pony glass; To boost color, 1-2 drops of Midori can be used as well. 
Pour brut-style sparkling wine in and serve on a tray next to Sinner’s Sazerac. 
 •Lagniappe[lan-yap] is "a little something extra". Usually, its meant like a little extra something good, a bonus, you know, something to sweeten the deal. What’s sweeter than a spoonful of absinthe and some sugar? 
•Facilier is clearly a Cognac Sazerac guy, I just don’t see the rye version in his hand. But, he's a fraudster. So we use can use American Brandy. Honestly, E&J is ubiquitous in America for barely $10 a bottle, so go with E&J Grand Blue for a sweeter drink, and E&J XO for a easier to sip, “smoother” drink. Alternatively, ignore me and use your favorite Cognac -- I like Ansac VS, the cheap Raynal VSOP blend is amazing, Martell VSOP, and honestly everything I’ve had from ABK6. Hennessy leans more on a bitter orange note than I prefer. Literally, this is a drink designed to feature the spirit and just give a little je ne sais quoi. Pick a brandy you’d like to drink, not just a bottle that had a huge marketing budget.
•The back is essentially Death In The Afternoon scaled down, hence the name, which most literally reads “Return of Death” i.e. -- A Death-Back. Remember, 'brut-style' -- no AOC Champagne required. An extra dry Cava is preferable to a Prosecco here.  Remember -- drink the spirits you like the way you like to drink them, but when it comes to champagne cocktails, you really don’t need to spend much. Its a vehicle, the things you modify with are the drivers. 
For a drink with a sidecar, honestly, it’s totally up to you if you shot the back or if you alternate between sips of the main drink and the shooter. Genuinely, give it a go however you like. I tend to do the latter, and its a great contrast here, but symbolically, shooting the champagne back is more accurate to symbolize how the song goes. 
This is dedicated in part to Doug Ankrah, who created the most defining champagne sidecar drink in the Pornstar Martini. RIP[REST IN PORN] my good dude.
*Regal stir or regal shake is to include a piece of zest in the stage of cocktail creation wherein you are introducing aeration, chilling and dilution to the cocktail. This is essentially lightly muddling it and releases the flavonoids stored in the lipid cells, just like when you twist a piece over a drink -- but this integrates them with more nuance on the tongue as opposed to primarly affecting aroma. 
Why the regal stir for this version? Why -- he’s a royal on his mother’s side, you know. 
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
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nightblood999 · 2 years
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Podcast Recommendations:
Death in the Afternoon
Do you like Audiobooks? Are you interested in learning about Death? Have you ever wondered about the Funeral Industry?
In Death in the Afternoon, a Mortician and her fellow death enthusiasts tell stories of death and dispel some myths about death. 10/10 would recommend.
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Hemingway doing research for his book Death in the Afternoon.
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seumascowan · 4 months
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death in the afternoon.
tahoma tip peeks through the balcony.
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opulusmellicula · 7 months
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Absinthe has been fascinating me for quite some time. 
Your green muse
The apparatus
For soul mobility
A gateway to secrecy...
But the cocktail Death in the afternoon in particular.
Death in the Afternoon, also called the Hemingway or the Hemingway Champagne, is a cocktail made up of absinthe and champagne.
Recipe: 
1 oz of absinthe;
4 oz of very cold champagne.
Unlike more infamous drinks sporting his name, Ernest Hemingway actually might have created this drink. The absinthe and Champagne concoction shares its name with his 1932 fictional bullfighting tale Death in the Afternoon, and was published in So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon, a 1935 cocktail book with contributions from famous authors.
"Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly."
Decadent and strong, Death in the Afternoon hinges on an unlikely yet complementary pair. It hits the nose with absinthe and some underlying notes of grape, but anise dominates. First on the sip is more of the absinthe, and a strong finish of Champagne.
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The painting used:  Still Life with Fruit (1675) by Jacob van Walscapelle. 
The first quote: Spirit by Ghost.
The main source: Tuxedo № 2.
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beezlebutch · 10 months
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I am listening to the Death in the Afternoon episode where they discuss 9/11 and how one of the hosts sat on her roommate's bed at college listening to the news, and it reminded me of one of something from my freshman year of college.
My roommate and I never really talked but both knew this person who died, her acquaintance/friend and my classmate. I couldn't go to his funeral but they were live streaming it to I watched it in my dorm, and she came in a little over half way through and because I knew she knew him I invited her to watch the rest. We both just sat there, on the ground, crying in silence until the end of the funeral with a box of tissues between us
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phantom-at-the-library · 11 months
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oyvinja · 11 months
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Hemingway says: “Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.”
(yes, i know, wrong glass.)
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girlbossblackbeard · 5 months
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how are we feeling besties
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