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Corpse Reviver No.1 Recipe

Name: Corpse Reviver No.1 Recipe
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 ½ ounces brandy or Cognac; ¾ ounce apple brandy; ¾ ounce Italian vermouth

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Last updated: Oct 14, 2022 • 1 min read

The Corpse Reviver cocktail is considered a ‘hair of the dog’ beverage that can take many forms—depending on which lore you believe about what to drink when you’re hungover. Though the Corpse Reviver Number 1 is less popular than the absinthe-tinged second version (which is a more floral, gin cocktail with orange liqueur and fresh lemon juice), Corpse Reviver contains a blend of brandy and vermouth that can please many palettes.

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What Are the Origins of the Corpse Reviver?

The “Corpse Reviver No. 1,” as the name refers, is a cocktail drink used to “wake the dead.” Though the Corpse Reviver No. 1 is a cocktail recipe unto itself, the name for this mixed drink is sometimes used to refer to any beverage lauded as a hangover cure for over-imbibers.

The first written appearance for a Corpse Reviver recipe was in a satirical magazine in 1861, but its first official recipe wasn’t published until 1871, and called for equal parts brandy and maraschino with two dashes of bitters. Like many other drink recipes, the Corpse Reviver Number 1 did not become a classic cocktail until it was published in Harry Craddock’s The Savoy Cocktail Book in the 1930s.

Corpse Reviver Recipe

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makes

1 cocktail

prep time

3 min

total time

3 min

Ingredients

1 ½ ounces brandy or Cognac
¾ ounce apple brandy
¾ ounce Italian vermouth

1
Gather your ingredients and prepare a chilled coupe glass or other stemmed cocktail glass.
2
Fill a mixing glass with ice.
3
Pour in your ingredients.
4
Stir.
5
Strain into the chilled coupe glass.

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