Name: New Orleans Buck
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rum - Agricole blanc rhum; 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 2 Peychaud's / Creole bitters; 100 ml Ginger beer

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with ginger beer.

1 1/2 fl oz	Rhum Clément Blanc
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
3 1/3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Beer
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Rhum Clément Blanc, 70cl

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£ 9.95 £ 0.50 per cocktail, makes 20

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Review:

Agricole character bursts out of this refreshing ginger-spiced cocktail.

History:

Created in 2008 by Jonny Raglin at Absinthe in San Francisco, USA. A 'Buck' is any cocktail with a spirit + lime + ginger beer or ginger ale.

Nutrition:

One serving of New Orleans Buck contains 160 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
8.89% alc./vol. (17.78° proof)
14.7 grams of pure alcohol

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