The Sazerac House
Interactive cocktail museum and working distillery where a legendary bitters recipe is still mixed and bottled by hand.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Sazerac House in New Orleans follows Antoine Amedee Peychaud, a Creole apothecary who fled a slave revolt in Haiti and opened a pharmacy on Royal Street in 1832, a short walk from where you stand. It traces how his bitters, sold as a stomach tonic, ended up splashed into glasses of cognac for friends dropping by the shop, and how that habit spread through the French Quarter and picked up a name of its own by the 1850s. You'll hear about the bartender who added an absinthe rinse decades later and what happened to that ingredient when absinthe was banned nationwide in 1912. Watch the copper still on this floor at work while you listen.
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