That the Final Phrase, a now-beloved gin traditional, isn’t an obscure footnote to cocktail historical past owes fully to at least one particular person. The late Zig Zag Café bartender Murray Stenson first sampled the drink within the early 2000s, and shortly took to the equal-parts combination of gin, inexperienced Chartreuse, maraschino and lime juice that he first encountered in Ted Saucier’s 1951 Bottoms Up! (although it was created many years earlier on the Detroit Athletic Membership). After he positioned the drink on the Zig Zag Café menu in 2004, it shortly graduated from bartender’s handshake to cult traditional to bona fide traditional—and have become the supply of numerous riffs. Listed below are a few of our favorites, together with trendy classics just like the Closing Ward and the Bare & Well-known, to make at house.
