Absinthe+Champagne=Death in the Afternoon

The boys over at Liquor Snob might have something here - check out Death in the Afternoon.

We've heard about a drink called the Hemingway cocktail, and we knew it involved a combination of absinthe and champagne. It seemed like a high end way to kill an afternoon, but there were two things we didn't think about (or know). One thing we didn't think about was how champagne's bubbles might distribute the absinthe buzz. Two was the fact that another name for the drink was the Death in the Afternoon (named after a book by Papa himself).

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