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This is a perfect and daring first date drink, and plays well at parties, too. A delicious recipe for death in the afternoon, with champagne and pernod® licorice liqueur. Death in the afternoon was invented by ernest hemingway and it's made using that often misunderstood spirit, absinthe.

Champion drinker ernest hemingway claimed to have invented the death in the afternoon, a risky pairing of absinthe and champagne, himself.

Hemingway's death in the afternoon. Here we show you how to make his perfectly balanced (and delicious!) cocktail using freixenet cordon negro, absinthe, and peychauds. Pour the pernod into the champagne flute and top off with the champagne. This cocktail can fool you because it's much stronger than it appears.