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Banana Shadow

Name: Banana Shadow
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 15 ml Palo cortado sherry; 7.5 ml Banana liqueur; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 12 drop Cardamom bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
1/2 fl oz	Lustau Palo Cortado Península Sherry (chilled)
1/4 fl oz	Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
12 drop	Bob's Cardamom bitters

How to make

Glass

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Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of dehydrated lime slice wheel.

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with dehydrated lime wheel.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Banana Shadow contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
22.29% alc./vol. (44.58° proof)
18 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Palo cortado sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2019 by Christine Wiseman at Broken Shaker in Los Angeles, California. (Originally based on Magdalena Guatemalan Rum.)

More cocktails by Christine Wiseman

Review

Your choice of rum may be what makes/breaks this banana and sherry-flavoured cocktail.

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Comments & Discussion

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Peter Andersson 24w

With Havana Club 7 y/o, Scrappy's Bitters Cardamom and demerara syrup (2:1), I did find this a bit on the sweet side and cardamom heavy. Next time I will dial up the sherry and down the syrup and bitters.