Cocktail From Beyond: The Tesserac
2 oz London No. 1 Gin
1/4 oz Blue Curaçao
1 bsp Simple Syrup
1-2 dashes Hella Bitters Ginger Lemon
rinse Lucid Absinthe
Stir first four ingredients with ice and strain into an Absinthe rinsed Old Fashioned glass. Finish with a Lemon Twist, discarding the peel after. Will the Cube to make you a part of—and therefore in control of—everything.
A new addition to my Cocktails from Beyond!
“I’ve seen worlds you’ve never known about! I have grown, Odin’s Son, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract” – Loki
This is one I’ve been meaning to get to for a while now. Whenever I have drinks with my friend Asha, she is consistently amused by the name of the Sazerac. “What did you order? A Tesseract?” So, as I’m wont to do, I needed to come up with an appropriately riffed version of the Sazerac called The Tesserac.
As many of you may know, on page and screen in the Marvel Universe, a Tesseract is a Cosmic Cube of great power suffused with reality warping energies of unknown composition. Introduced to the comics in the 60’s by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, these glowing blue MacGuffin stones have fueled plotlines for slightly longer than I’ve been alive.
I figured I’d base the Tesserac on the Wink which is basically a Gin variation of the Sazerac, mainly because I could use blue Gin. I used London No. 1 as it’s a blue Gin which I like a whole lot more than Bombay Sapphire. At that point my experience with blue Gins ends, though I do have a lovely looking lavender Empress Gin that I’ve yet to try. I was hoping to achieve the blue, Tesseract hue with just some blue gin but it was just a little too light after adding the clear Cointreau and ice dilution. I did, against everything holy, decide to swap out the Cointreau from The Wink with Blue Curaçao specifically for the color. Normally I wouldn’t serve a Sazerac or a Wink with a large rock of ice, but in this case the giant cube added to the presentation. I regret nothing.
The last thing I had to consider was the name. Do I just call it the “Tesseract”, make it a lot closer to “Sazerac” and name it “Tezerac”, or compromise and call it “Tesserac” by just dropping the ending ‘t’. Obviously, I chose the last option as it seemed to reflect both ideas best, but I’d be curious if anyone had any thoughts.
