A blend of gin, Lillet Blanc, Myatt's Lemon, blue curacao and absinthe. Bottled and aged for at least six weeks. Harry Craddock put the Corpse Reviver No. 2 in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930 with the only warning he thought a drink needed: four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again. In 2007 a bartender called Jacob Briars, working in Queenstown in New Zealand, swapped the orange liqueur for a blue one, as a reaction to how serious everybody had become about cocktails. That is the one we make. Not the sensible one. The absinthe matters. In the original you rinse the glass with it and pour the rinse away, which assumes you own a bottle of absinthe for the sake of a teaspoon. Ours is in the bottle, doing the same job, and your cupboard is one bottle lighter. Straight from the freezer into a chilled coupe, with a lemon twist. A true modern classic, and a reminder not to take oneself too seriously all of the time.
