Remember the Maine

60 ml (2 oz) rye
22.5 ml (0.75 oz) sweet vermouth
15 ml (0.5 oz) Cherry Brandy Luxardo
7.5 ml (0.25 oz) absinthe

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Notes

From Charles H. Baker's 1939 The Gentleman's Companion, where he described it as a drink from the days of Cuba Libre. Named after the USS Maine, whose mysterious sinking in Havana Harbor in 1898, killing 266 sailors, became the rallying cry "Remember the Maine!" that helped propel the US into the Spanish-American War. Baker wrote that it should be drunk "to the brave men who lost their lives."