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Characterful and well-aged rums with a blend of citrus and all-important pimento dram. You may swap rums but there's no substitute for the pimento dram
Wonderful balance of the rums, citrus and pimento. I’m not huge a rum drinker but this is the sort of gear I will turn out for! You know it’s good when you’re only part way through and already thinking about making another one!
I bumped up the pimento to 10ml on second iteration, perhaps making up for slightly substandard grapefruit. Appleton 8 and plantation original worked great.
Good classic Tiki drink! I used Coruba + El Dorado 12 and The Bitter Truth. In the future want to try with Hamilton Pimento Dram or St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram Liquer to see if there is any difference.
I will echo the previous comments, as I found the drink gained some clarity after I added more turbinado simple syrup about 1/3 of the way through. The additional sweetness really brought out the Allspice Dram and grapefruit flavors for me, which previously had been buried under the lime/dark rum combination. I found the version with 1/2 syrup to be better balanced, and quite delicious.
First thought this was a weird combination of flavours. But I’m now halfway through the cocktail and it’s really growing on me. I did add a bit more sugar syrup for balance. Maybe my lime/grapefruit is just not as sweet. I really like the bitter hint of grapefruit in the background.
The grapefruit juice and pimento dram are really working together to make this stand out. I made this with an extra 1/4 shot of syrup cause that seems to be a common recipe online, and it was very balanced, so I suppose this recipe is slightly on the drier side.