Ingredients

  • 1½ ozgreen chartreuse
  • 4 ozpineapple juice
  • ½ ozlime juice
  • 🍋Lime wheel(garnish)

🔧 Tools

highball glassjiggerbar spoon

Instructions

  1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
  2. Pour green Chartreuse over the ice.
  3. Add pineapple juice and fresh lime juice.
  4. Gently stir once to combine.
  5. Garnish with a lime wheel and serve immediately.

📜 History

Swamp Water was developed by the American marketing team for Chartreuse importers in the 1970s, when US sales had dropped significantly. The campaign was designed to introduce green Chartreuse to younger drinkers by pairing it with pineapple juice — a popular mixer of the era. Chartreuse sold a Swampwater party kit for $4.95, which included branded Mason jars and napkins. "More bang than a Wallbanger" was one of the campaign's central taglines. The first printed recipe appears in Brian's Booze Guide by Brian F. Rea in 1976. PUNCH Magazine describes it as "a pineapple-heavy Chartreuse Swizzle, sans falernum" and notes it is experiencing a second life in modern cocktail bars.

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