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Colonial Ties

Nightcap/sipping · Spirit-forward

4.6 58 ratings

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Ingredients

1/12 oz Absinthe
1/4 oz Brown sugar syrup
2 dash Orange bitters
1 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
1 oz Aged Jamaican rum
1/3 oz Chilled water

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 RINSE glass with absinthe, discard excess and set to one side.
  2. 4 STIR other ingredients with ice.
  3. 5 STRAIN into absinthe-rinsed glass. (No ice in glass.)

Garnish

  1. 6 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

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50.0% alc./vol. · 1.6 standard drinks · 163 calories

History

Some prefer to muddle a bitters-soaked brown sugar cube until "smooth paste" to make this cocktail. Depending on your sugar cube, even with a splash of soda water, after what seems like an eternity sugar crystals rather than paste may still be visible. Using a 2:1 brown sugar syrup is recommended to make this punchy nightcap. One person's paste is another's syrup!

This recipe was adapted in 2014 by Eric Alperin at The Varnish in Los Angeles.

Created by Eric Alperin