Brandy Cocktails: Calvados
Pan American Clipper Cocktail
Pan American Clipper Cocktail Ingredients
2 oz. Clear Creek Eau de Vie de Pomme 8 Year
2 dashes Mansinthe
0.75 oz. Fresh lime juice
0.75 oz. Grenadine
Garnish
Lime wheel
Pan American Clipper Cocktail Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and add ice. Shake hard. Fine strain into a coupe or stemmed cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Pan American Clipper Cocktail Story
Recorded by Charles H. Baker in his 1939 Gentleman’s Companion, the Pan American Clipper is perhaps best thought of in regards to its poetic namesake than for any significant cocktail innovation. Baker describes it essentially as a Jack Rose boosted by the addition of absinthe, but goes on to paint the drink as being of a distinct time and place: the golden age of air travel, when large planes challenged ocean liners for luxury points.