Name: Pirate Queen
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 fresh Strawberries (fresh); 30 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 30 ml Oude genever; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 5 ml Honey and water syrup; 2.5 ml Ginger syrup; 2.5 ml Cinnamon syrup; 1 dash Creole bitters

Pirate Queen
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 fresh	Strawberries (hulled, small & ripe)
1 oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
1 oz	Rutte Old Simon Genever
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₆ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
0.08 oz	Monin Ginger Syrup
0.08 oz	Monin Cinnamon Syrup
1 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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Garnish: Dust with freshly grated nutmeg

How to make:

MUDDLE strawberry in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass over a large cube or chunk of block ice.

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Review:

Lightly spicy with an attractive underlying bready fruitiness from the fresh strawberry and genever.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2014 by Jillian Vose for the 3rd volume of The Dead Rabbit menu, New York City, USA.

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Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
17.01% alc./vol. (17.01° proof)
16.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Ignacy Szczupal

27th March 2023 at 21:17

Unexpected complex pleasure.

John Hinojos

18th February 2023 at 21:05

Very well balanced. Slight hint of the strawberry in the second half of the sip. Not overly loaded with the cinnamon or ginger so the other flavours are allowed to shine. Overall a very pleasant cocktail.

Florian Ruf

5th February 2023 at 18:15

Meanwhile I watched the youtube video with the original recipe and tried a combination of both recipes. I used sliced ginger for the extra kick, the original 1 oz lemon juice, omitted the sugar syrup and lifted the rest of syrups (minus strawberry syrup) to the original amounts. That worked much better than my first try.

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