Name: Anejo Highball
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 15 ml Orange Curaçao; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 60 ml Ginger beer

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

2 fl oz

Thomas Henry Ginger Beer

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange and lime slice wheels.

Method

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass half filled with half ginger beer.

TOP with rest of ginger beer.

Garnish

Garnish with orange and lime slice wheels.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Anejo Highball contains 211 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
13.89% alc./vol. (27.77° proof)
19 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Matt Premium Member 1y

I liked it better when I added some more of lime juice - the lime and (Fever Tree) ginger beer work well, and I like the rum as the base liquor. A nice alternative to a Dark & Stormy.

Peter M Premium Member 2y

I'm using up some bottles of Appalachian ginger beer, which is supposed to be a "Jamaican style" ginger beer and is fairly spicy. I think it might be too much for this cocktail, though, since the aged rum is going to be a bit more delicate than your typical base spirits used in most other ginger beer cocktails, e.g. mules... I'll have to try this one again with some Fever-Tree.

Peter M Premium Member 2y

Since there's a lot of rum options one could use for this (and some have not worked so well according to the comments here): Appleton Estate 8 Reserve seems to handle the ginger beer well and does not get lost in the mix.

Avery Garnett 2y

now /this/ is an excellent mule.

Thorsten Muecke 3y

I made it with Thomas Henry. The result was a very drinkable, comparatively thick, intense drink. Appleton 12 Rare Casks was rather restrained and somewhat masked by the ginger beer. Havana Club 7 anos was incredibly good with coffee and caramel notes and a bit more sweetness. Go for a young rum, the indication here of 6-8 years is pretty good. And I recommend, really try it with the Havana Club 7 anos. Dave Brooms's recommends it for mixing with ginger beer in "Rum. The Manual" and he es right.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 3y

I must have missed something here. I just read your comment moments after making this with Havana Club 7 anos and Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao. I think it might be the ginger beer I used, Fever Tree brand. The 'coffee and caramel notes' you mentioned weren't immediately apparent, but now I can subtly taste them. I guess I'll have to revisit this drink.

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Not liking sweet cocktails, we upped the lime juice by 50%. Our ginger beer is a small-batch company and it is stronger in ginger, but has less sugar. Made a wonderful cocktail Nice strong ginger flavour and everything else is well balanced.

Areum Jeon 4y

Loved it, but it was a bit too sweet for me. Maybe next time I'll try with 15ml lime juice.

C Dozois 4y

Very enjoyable. I combined Bacardi 8yr and Abuello Anejo when making two drinks. Nice combination pairing well with the citrus and ginger beer flavours!