The Yellow Jacket Recipe

By
Maggie Hoffman
Maggie Hoffman is a contributing writer at Serious Eats.
Maggie Hoffman
Maggie Hoffman is a longtime food and drink expert whose recipes and cocktail-making tips can be found on her newsletters What to Drink and The Dinner Plan. She is the author of  The One-Bottle Cocktail and Batch Cocktails, both published by Ten Speed Press.
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Updated August 30, 2018
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This aromatic tequila cocktail comes from Speakeasy, the cocktail cookbook from Jason Kosmas and Dushan Zaric of Employees Only in New York. It's rich and honey-tinged from the combination of St-Germain elderflower liqueur and fennel-scented yellow Chartreuse. Herbal, musky, and bittersweet, it's a contemplative, well-balanced cocktail, named for the wasps that swarm around agave farms and tequila distilleries.

Recipe Details

The Yellow Jacket Recipe

Active 5 mins
Total 5 mins
Serves 1 serving

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces reposado tequila (such as Partida)

  • 1 ounce St-Germain elderflower liqueur

  • 3/4 ounce Yellow Chartreuse

  • 1 dash Regan's Orange Bitters

  •  1 lemon twist, for garnish

Directions

  1. Pour tequila, elderflower liqueur, Chartreuse, and bitters into mixing glass. Fill about two-thirds full with ice cubes and stir for 40 revolutions. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist.

Nutrition Facts (per serving)
312Calories
0gFat
17gCarbs
0gProtein
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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 1
Amount per serving
Calories312
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g0%
Saturated Fat 0g0%
Cholesterol 0mg0%
Sodium 4mg0%
Total Carbohydrate 17g6%
Dietary Fiber 1g2%
Total Sugars 14g
Protein 0g
Vitamin C 8mg39%
Calcium 8mg1%
Iron 0mg1%
Potassium 22mg0%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

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