Name: Across the Pacific
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 15 ml OP high ester aged pot still rum; 15 ml Amaro (e.g. Averna); 22.5 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Orgeat syrup; 4 drop Daiquiri bitters

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Overproof aged pot still rum (high-ester 4-6 years old)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Amaro (e.g. Averna)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup

4 drop

Difford's Daiquiri Bitters (optional)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of grated nutmeg and lime slice wheel.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish

Dust with freshly grated nutmeg and garnish with lime wheel.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Across the Pacific contains 230 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.12% alc./vol. (38.25° proof)
20 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup (2:1) — Nuts

Comments & Discussion

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Martin Mangold 7w

Great drink!
I used
Worthy park 109
8YO Barbados
Angostura Amaro
...
Makes me wonder how it would taste with Fernet instead

Mike Premium Member 22w

Delicious as-is, without modifications, apart from settling on your rums.

My taste buds say this is a Mai Tai with Averna in for curaçao.

OFTD, Smith and Cross.

Robert Spain 19w

I agree that this is more a Mai Tai riff than a variation of a daiquiri, and I think it's much better than the otiginal.

Ryan Madden Premium Member 36w

Made this with 8 Year Appleton and Smith and Cross but without the Daiquiri Bitters. To me the flavor was a mix of a Mai Tai and cola with a faint strawberry jam aftertaste. Pretty good! Ill have to try again with the bitters.

Ruth Harvey 37w

On the recommendation of Loz Horner we find ourselves here and are not regretting it. We too had no pot still runs so chose a Discarded Banana Peel rum instead.

Loz Horner 38w

Didn’t have the pot still rums used Havana 7 and a splash of Diplomatico (which I know isn’t particularly high in esters). Still glorious. The cola notes of the verbs really come out. On our faves list.

Stefano Lucente 1y

I had to make several changes due to my usual stock issues, altogether very happy with the result. Added snowcone
10 ml
OFTD
20 ml
Homemade pineapple rum arrangé (OFTD, zacapa 23, agua ardiente de Madeira, Havana club 3, simple syrup)
15 ml
Jamaica WP 2013 transcontinental
15 ml
Amaro Lucano
22.5 ml
Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
15 ml
Monin Orgeat Syrup (sorry)
4 dashes
Angostura Bitters
1 dash
Homemade allspice dram
1 splash
Branca menta
1 pinch
Extra fine salt
2 drops
Marzipan flavour extract

Morten Carlsbaek Premium Member 1y

Both fresh and deep, a different cocktail that could satisfy a crowd. It does need to rest - and dilute. I used Wray & Nephew white overproof rum- unfortunately it actually dominated the taste a bit too much a bit too long. Next time I will use the (slightly) less funky Hampden 8 yr. The rum used was R. L. Seale's Barbados rum 46 %.

Avery Garnett 2y

Very tasty, and I love Averna -- but in this form, just not as good as a regular Mai Tai.

Collin Westgate 3y

Delicious. Feels almost like a Mai Tai built to drink in the wintertime, around a roaring fireplace. The nutmeg (or whatever else you have on-hand for a similar effect, a cinnamon blend worked well for me at one point) is a must.

Chris Brislawn 3y

Agree with Meaghan Dorman that Appleton Reserve (8-yr-old) and Smith & Cross are a good pairing with Averna, though I still don't get the "Pacific" thing. Had half a lemon so used that with a lime (always mixing for 2 in our house) and suspect the blend works better (less bitter) with the Averna than all lime. No Difford bitters so used Bittermen's Elemakule Tiki Bitters to much household acclaim.

Dan Casselman 1y

I had to shake my head about the "Pacific" thing as well. Closest thing in this drink to the Pacific Ocean might be the Nutmeg (but probably Indian Ocean). Hey, I'm not a a geography major, but I do like the drink.