Name: The Optimist
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2.5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 60 ml Bacardi Carta Blanca; 20 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 5 ml Ginger syrup; 5 ml Honey sugar syrup; 8 Basil leaves

Serve in

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:

1.4 standard drinks
20.49% alc./vol. (40.98° proof)
19 grams of pure alcohol

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