Remember the Maine

Different drink, not a worse one. Heering is darker and leans on bitter almond; raspberry liqueur reads brighter and jammier against the rye. Whichever you pour, keep it near 8 ml. Past 15 ml the fruit stops seasoning the vermouth and starts leading, and the absinthe has nothing left to cut through.

Two ml is a bar spoon. Tip it into a chilled coupe, roll it around the inside wall until the glass is coated, then tip the excess into the next glass or back into the bottle. A small atomizer is the tidier answer: two sprays and you are done.

Pastis or Pernod handles a rinse perfectly well. Both are sweeter and less herbal, so use slightly less. Leaving it out altogether gives you a competent rye and vermouth drink that has lost the thing people remember about it, which is the anise arriving before anything touches your mouth.

Not especially. Vermouth and raspberry liqueur together come to 30 ml against 60 ml of rye, and both are lower in proof than they are high in sugar. It lands closer to a spiced Manhattan with fruit at the edges. If yours reads syrupy, suspect an old open bottle of vermouth.

A classic Remember the Maine calls for absinthe, to rinse Absinthe, 60 ml (2 oz) Rye whiskey, 22 ml (0.75 oz) Sweet vermouth, 8 ml (0.25 oz) Raspberry liqueur. That single-serve spec scales cleanly — the recipe above converts it to oz and multiplies it for 2–4 drinks.

A standard Remember the Maine is roughly 36% ABV once mixed (before ice melt softens it further). That makes it spirit-forward — closer to a Martini than to a beer, so sip it slowly.

A Remember the Maine is shaken. About 13 seconds with plenty of ice chills and dilutes it correctly.