Sazerac

The Sazerac is a whiskey-and-bitters drink in the tradition of the earliest cocktails. In the early nineteenth century, the owner of a New Orleans apothecary, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, developed a product called Peychaud’s Bitters. He mixed it with cognac and enjoyed serving it to his friends. Sewell Taylor, who owned the Sazerac Coffeehouse, put the drink on the map by mixing it with a popular cognac named “Sazerac de Forge et Fils” and serving Peychaud’s concoction as his house cocktail, calling it “the Sazerac.”