Widow's Kiss Cocktail - The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess - Small Screen

Sign up for the Small Screen Email Newsletter: http://vid.io/xdM Be the first to know when new episodes air on our site! The Widow's Kiss is a fairly old cocktail, dating back to around 1895. This was during a time when a "new" age of cocktails were coming into existence as bartenders were letting it expand beyond it's previously held definition of "spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters". They were experimenting with the use of vermouth (and hence the Martini and Manhattan), as well as various herbal liqueurs which would have previously been simply sipped neat. The Window's Kiss doubles up on it's elixir content by using both Chartreuse and Benedictine. If you can only find green Chartreuse and not yellow, you can substitute it if you cut back on it by about a third. Watch on Small Screen: http://www.smallscreennetwork.com/video/274/widows_kiss/ Recipe: 2 oz Calvados 1 oz Yellow Chartreuse 1 oz Benedictine dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters Instructions: Stir with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.