Name: Colonel Ward
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Rum - Overproof white; 15 ml Apricot (brandy) liqueur; 30 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed); 15 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 5 ml Fernet liqueur

Serve in

Nick & Nora glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	White overproof rum
1/2 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
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Review:

Rum funk-laced orchard and citrus fruit with medicinal herbal complexity.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Jason E. Clapham at the St. Edward's MCR at Oxford, England. Originally made with Wray & Nephew overproof rum, this cocktail is named after John Wray's nephew.

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Nutrition:

126 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
19.62% alc./vol. (39.24° proof)
18.6 grams of pure alcohol

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