- Pousse-café
A pousse-café is a term for a
layered drink prepared by gently adding each ingredient from densest to least dense in order to create colored stripes when the drink is viewed from the side. Some bartender guides list a drink containing, from bottom to top,grenadine , yellow chartreuse, and green chartreuse as the original pousse-café.The name literally means "it pushes the coffee" in French. Colloquially, the term is equivalent to a "chaser" for coffee. A
digestif , an alcoholiccordial sometimes consumed after a meal to aid digestion, is called a "pousse-café" or coffee-chaser. In France there is no tradition for the type of elaborate recipe that follows.A more elaborate recipe is:
* 1/2 ounce Grenadine
* 1/2 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
* 1/2 ounce Crème de Cassis
* 1/2 ounce White Creme de Cacao
* 1/2 ounce Green Chartreuse
* 1/2 ounce BrandyReferences
* [http://www.drinkstreet.com/searchresults.cgi?drinkid=169&drinkname=category:31 DrinkStreet Pousse Cafe recipe]
* [http://www.badideatheater.com/pousse.html Bad Idea Theater - Pousse-café]Tyler, S. and Herbst, R. "The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide". New York: Broadway Books, 1998.
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