The Optimist

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Discerning Drinkers (2 ratings)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Thin cucumber slice.

How to make:

RINSE chilled glass with Yellow Chartreuse and set aside. SHAKE other ingredients with ice and fine strain into rinsed glass.

1/12 fl oz Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
2 fl oz Bacardi Carta Blanca Superior White Rum
2/3 fl oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz Ginger syrup
1/6 fl oz Honey sugar syrup
8 fresh Basil leaves
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History:

Hong Kong Bacardí Legacy 2015 winning cocktail by Devender Sehgal, Otto e Mezzo BOMBANA, Hong Kong. Devender's original recipe calls for 10 ml of both homemade ginger and honey syrups.

The inspiration for this drink was to make something simple yet delicious, well balanced and with every ingredient playing its own role on the palate. This cocktail is a great example of a drink with easily sourced ingredients that can be replicated anywhere, at any time.

"BACARDÍ Rum is the star of this drink, so I have carefully selected ingredients that go together well and do not dominate each other.

"The name of the drink pays tribute to the spirit of the Bacardí family who produced one of the finest rums in the world, even in the most difficult of times, with a spirit of true optimism.

Devender Sehgal, 2015

Alcohol content:

  • 1.2 standard drinks
  • 18.68% alc./vol. (37.36° proof)
  • 17.3 grams of pure alcohol
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The author of that seminal work, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Augustus Embury was born on this day in 1886 in Pine Woods, upstate New York. He

Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night Cocktails image

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Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason, why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.

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