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I thoroughly enjoyed this. Instinctively knew I’d want a bigger peach hit so upped that to 15ml but otherwise stuck to the recipe and thought it was spot on. It is sweet but the generous 20ml lemon sorts that out. Think using a bourbon with more rye in the mash bill also plays better for balancing sweetness, as well as pulling together better with the spice of the ginger.
Unusually for me, didn’t have any bananas handy, so replaced the cream with banana milkshake. It pushed that sweet almost artificial banana flavour but I loved that. Was generous with the rum which I think kept the sweetness in check and stopped it tipping into full dessert cocktail territory.
Tried this with a lovely Casamigos blanco, only tweak was increasing the lime juice by about 5ml. Thoroughly enjoyed it, can see why others have flagged the sweetness, but thought for a slightly longer and sweeter marg, this does very nicely indeed.