Name: Fay Wray
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Blended light 3-5yo rum; 22.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Banana liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Agricole rhum (unaged); 7.5 ml Brown sugar syrup; 1 wedge Lime (fresh)

Ingredients

³⁄₄ fl oz

Caribbean light rum aged 3-5 years

³⁄₄ fl oz

Cognac (brandy)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Agricole blanc/cane juice rhum (unaged)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Demerara/Muscovado/brown sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)

1 wedge

Lime (fresh)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a DOUBLE OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of mint sprigs and speared dehydrated banana chips.

Method

REGAL SHAKE all ingredients (inc. lime wedge, which should be squeezed and dropped into shaker) with ice.

STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish

Garnish with mint sprigs bouquet and speared banana chips.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

21 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Nathalie O Flynn Premium Member 4w

Sipping this right now, as I don’t have Havana Especial I used a bit of gold rum and Appleton to make up the measure and decided to turn it into a tiki cocktail with all the decorations cork monkeys 🙈 etc.. This is very very pleasant indeed

Nathalie O Flynn Premium Member 4w

Just lost my comment (error) will try again tomorrow and type it in Notepad first

Harry Premium Member 4w

Fixed :)

Nathalie O Flynn Premium Member 4w

My comment appeared after all 😃

Loz Horner 34w

Good balance. The banana didn’t dominate for us.

Thierry Vandevelde 40w

Nice balancing act in which all the ingredients complement each others very well. I was pleasantly surprised how the agricole made its presence felt with merely a 1/4 oz.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

I'm very surprised by the people saying it's very banana forward. I don't agree at all. To me it's much more rhum forward with it's grassy notes on the nose and the front of the palate. The banana is there but it rather elevates the other components. The cognac and rum is there but it's building the backbone for the rhum and the lime zest rather than taking the centre stage.

Overall a very nice cocktail. It's balanced and does something new.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

I realised what it is - a more complex Caipirinha. Leave the lime husk in and it's even more of a faux Caipirinhia. It's honestly really delicious, give it a try!

Erik Lindgren 1y

I wholeheartedly agree. I believe there are some banana notes in the agricole, but it’s not the banana liqueur you taste, its the agricole. Very balanced and different.

Ben S 1y

I believe this is misspelled as it's apparently intended to be titled "Fay Wray."

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

Many thanks for letting me know, Ben. Now corrected.

Jose Cruz 2y

If you enjoyed this you need to try Reef juice next ...

Avery Garnett 2y

I really, really like creme de banane. Or at least the one I have (Massenez). It's definitely a little more than "subtle" here, haha (I'd contrast to the Iz Bananaz which has a similarly large amount of it but far less banana flavour). Still incredibly delicious and worth 4.5, but any nuances of the cognac or the rhum agricole are lost by banana.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 3y

I fortunately found this to be sublime. My ingredients: Flor de Cana 4 (dark), Decortet VS Cognac, Giffard Banane du Bresil, lime juice, Rhum J.M. 100 proof, 2:1 Jamaican demerara syrup, catmint garnish (it's early in NJ, my other mints have not yet sprung), two blocks of ice in a basic rocks glass... The recipe here looked fantastic, and it didn't disappoint. (4 May 2023, 9:34a)

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Did not care for this at all. I found the banana taste overpowering. Even will I cut back on the banana by 1/3. The rest of the ingredients made it drinkable, but definitely will not have again. I think it is a waste of good rum, rhum. and cognac.