Instructions

Shake ingredients together with ice, and strain into a glass.

History

From Wikipedia entry: This recipe was a new variation at the Savoy's American Bar that employed Fernet-Branca as an ingredient, coming almost two decades after the corpse reviver appeared in the Savoy Cocktail Book with its #1 and #2 variations. Salvatore Calabrese states in his book Classic Cocktails that it was created by Johnny Johnson of the Savoy circa 1948, and lists it as a corpse reviver #3. Others believe it was invented later in 1954 by Joe Gilmore, also of the Savoy.

Besides Calabrese, the Fernet version is sometimes categorized by others as the corpse reviver #3, but it is not standardized and it is sometimes referenced as the №4.

Cocktail summary
Created by
Johnny Johnson, The Savoy Hotel
Year
1948
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  • Very delicious, but also very minty. Next time I’ll up the Fernet and brandy to 1oz each. Used Delord Armagnac and Tempus Crème de Menthe.
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Comments
yarm commented on 1/02/2023:

I've never heard of it called #4 before. It's generally known as the "Savoy Corpse Reviver" or "Corpse Reviver #3".


I agree with the commenter who said they usually see it as "Savoy Corpse Reviver" or "Corpse Reviver #3". Even if the other ones on this site were possibly in books first, I've always heard this one as the one that became more famous as #3. I was actually coming on here to add it to the site, since I was drinking one and hadn't seen it!

Very good, used Leopold Fernet and homemade creme de menthe, Torres brandy.