Recipe

Toast Like Gatsby

Louisville’s Seelbach Hotel honors a literary legend with a dazzling libation

A cocktail in a tall flute glass

Photo: Tim Furlong Jr.


This year marks a century since The Great Gatsby first dazzled readers, and the Seelbach Hotel—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Louisville haunt and the setting of Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s lavish wedding reception—has shaken up its own prohibition-inspired libation for decades. Known as the place where Fitzgerald crossed paths with bootlegger George Remus, the real-life inspiration for Jay Gatsby, there’s never been a better time to raise a glass of a drink as effervescent and enduring as the novel itself: the Seelbach.

glass of bourbon with ice
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Seelbach Cocktail

Yield: 1 cocktail

Ingredients

    • 1 oz. Old Forester Bourbon

    • 1/2 oz. Orange Liqueur

    • 3 dashes Angostura Bitters

    • 4 dashes Peychaud's Bitters

    • 5 oz. Champagne

Preparation

  1. Build in a flute glass in the order given and garnish with an orange peel.


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