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Haberdasher
Posted: July 18, 2026
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The Haberdasher is one of Difford's Guide's most inventive bourbon cocktails — a decadent after-dinner drink that layers chocolate bourbon with the medicinal bite of Fernet-Branca and a Green Chartreuse cream float on top. Crème de cacao gives the bourbon a luxurious chocolate richness, Fernet-Branca cuts through with herbal fire, and the Chartreuse cream head adds a final flourish of complex alpine herbs. It's served by drinking through the cream layer — the botanicals of the Chartreuse hit first, followed by the warming bourbon chocolate, then the medicinal Fernet on the finish. Ambitious, unusual, and absolutely delicious.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Bourbon Whiskey
1 oz Heavy Cream
0.5 oz Creme de Cacao
0.25 oz Green Chartreuse
0.25 oz Fernet-Branca
Instructions
- Combine bourbon, crème de cacao, and Fernet-Branca in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
- Shake for 10-12 seconds until well chilled.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or rocks glass over ice.
- Whip the heavy cream very lightly until just barely thickened (not stiff).
- Mix the Green Chartreuse into the lightly whipped cream.
- Float the Chartreuse cream over the back of a bar spoon on top of the drink.
- Serve immediately — drink through the cream layer.