Name: Lion of Baltimore
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Jamaican OP aged 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

Lion of Baltimore
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Photographed in an UB Retro Coupe 1920 7.75oz

Ingredients:
1 oz	Jamaican-style overproof aged pot still rum
1 oz	Jamaican aged blended rum with funk
1 oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup
2 dash	Pimento bitters
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with lime wedge on rim.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

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

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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.

Nutrition:

One serving of Lion of Baltimore contains 222 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
21.38% alc./vol. (21.38° proof)
25.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Chris Brislawn

4th April at 03:16

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

31st March at 02:44

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!♡♡♡♡♡