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Lion of Baltimore

Name: Lion of Baltimore
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml OP high ester aged pot still rum; 30 ml Aged Jamaican rum; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Orgeat syrup; 2 dash Pimento bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Overproof aged pot still rum (high-ester 4-6 years old)
1 fl oz	Crossfire Hurricane Jamaican Rum
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup
2 dash	Pimento bitters
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Retro Coupe 1920 7.75oz

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge on rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Lion of Baltimore contains 222 calories

Alcohol content:

2 standard drinks
21.38% alc./vol. (42.75° proof)
27.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup (2:1) — Nuts

History

Adapted from a recipe created circa 2013 by cocktail historian and author Philip Greene after sailing with his father on Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. The cocktail is named after an American fighting schooner sunk by the British during the 1812 war at Bodkin Point, near the mouth of the Patapsco River, south of Baltimore, close to where the Greene's sailboat is moored.

Review

Full-bodied Jamaican funk, herbal vermouth and pimento bitters set this almond rum sour apart.

Hampden Estate HLCF Classic Rum 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$99.99 $4.00 per cocktail

Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$14.99 $0.15 per cocktail

$4.15 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Henry Tran 1y

It’s good. But more like a daiquiri for me. I can barely taste the vermouth

Chris Brislawn 1y

Excellent mix, should be a tiki classic. Smith & Cross and Appleton Estate 8-year-old Reserve. Didn't have DeGroff's Pimento Aromatic Bitters so I used my homemade, unsweetened pimento dram, which doesn't have the bittering agents of a bitters but has lotsa pimento + other spices. A good dash each of St. Elizabeth and Angostura would also probably work in a pinch.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

This is quite delicious and well balanced, do try. Didn't have pimento bitters so I added two dashes of allspice dram and four drops lemon bitters. Smith & Cross, Myers's, and St. Elizabeth for the pimento dram paired to perfection!♡♡♡♡♡

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