Name: Outrigger
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Caribbean rum 3-5yo; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Outrigger
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 3-5 years
³⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon juice and sugar rim.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Best described as a "Rum Sidecar", like the classic Sidecar this cocktail is a tad on the sour side unless sipped through sugared rim. Altogether a better drink if you forgo the rim and add 2.5ml (half a barspoon) sugar syrup (2:1) so the balance is properly integrated.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Jeff "Beachbum" Berry originally using gold Bajan rum this features in his 2010 book Beachbum Berry Remixed: A Gallery of Tiki Drinks.

OUTRIGGER
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
¾ ounce triple sec
1 ½ ounces gold Barbados rum
Sugar
Rub the rim of a chilled cocktail glass with your spent lemon shell, then coat the moistened rim with sugar. Shake the rum, lemon juice and triple sec with ice cubes. Strain into the sugar-frosted glass (pictured). [The glass pictured is an angular-shaped modern flute.
Jeff Berry, 2010

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Nutrition:

One serving of Outrigger contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
22.05% alc./vol. (22.05° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Florian Ruf

14th April 2023 at 18:24

I used also rum from Barbados and imho found the sugar rim absolutely necessary. Depending on your fruit it could be necessary to reduce it a bit.

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John Hinojos

29th July 2022 at 00:09

Rum Sidecar is a good description. Nicely sour, but the sweetness will vary depending on how much sugar adulteration has been done to the rum. We use Barbados rum as Barbados restricts the adulteration of the rum.

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