Name: Northern Sun
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 Root ginger (thumbnail-sized slice); 60 ml Rum - 6-10yr old Caribbean blended rum; 90 ml Pear juice (freshly pressed); 30 ml Cranberry juice (sweetened); 7.5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Maple syrup

Serve in a

Collins glass

Garnish:

Pear wedge

How to make:

MUDDLE ginger in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass.

2 slice	Root ginger (thumbnail-sized slice)
2 fl oz	Bacardi 8 year old rum
3 fl oz	Pear juice (freshly pressed)
1 fl oz	Cranberry juice (sweetened)
1/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Maple syrup
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Review:

Subtle and easy. Hard to believe this drink contains two measures of rum.

History:

Recipe adapted 2008 from LCBO Magazine and comes courtesy of Sean Murray of Aurora, Ontario, Canada.

Nutrition:

One serving of Northern Sun contains 255 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
9.93% alc./vol. (19.86° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

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