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by jfengel 323 days ago
I'm out of chartreuse. Think it'll work with absinthe?
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That'll give you a totally different drink. Chartreuse and absinthe both have strong but different flavors; not to mention that a bijou has 3/4oz of chartreuse but that much absinthe would totally overpower any other ingredient.
It would be radically different. I love absinthe but there's a special place in my heart for Green Chartreuse.

Damn, now I want a Last Word.

Chartreuse doesn't really have any good substitutes that I can think of, it's got a very distinct flavour that's nothing like absinthe (I like to lovingly describe it as lawn steeped in everclear).

Still make the drink with absinthe and see how it goes though - it'll taste totally different but it might still be good, and the ABV and (lack of) sweetness of chartreuse and absinthe are at least fairly close.

Genepy is the best substitute. But now that the monks aren't making as much, other subs have popped up.

But definitely not absinthe.

In my opinion, Genepy is a decent substitute for Yellow Chartreuse, not so much for Green. Green has a very herbal flavor where yellow tends to be more floral.
in the best case you'll invent a new drink but I doubt it'll be very good; start with a very small amount instead of using the same proportions as with chartreuse and you may get somewhere interesting, like a gin sazerac kind of drink