dark rum, silver tequila, simple syrup, lemon juice, lime juice, orange bitters, egg white

I found this recipe in The PDT Cocktail Book, it is also available on stevethebartender.com.au.

The PDT Cocktail Book wins again! Really, the modern recipes I try from this book have all had weird-ass ingredients, but they are beautifully balanced and delicious. So much thought goes into getting the flavors just right.

But, this is not a beautiful cocktail. The egg white foam is pretty, but it is brown and the recipe says specifically “No garnish”. It looks like a latte in a coupe glass.

I gotta say it again – I didn’t like dark rum drinks until I tried Koloa Rum. I swear this is not an ad for them. 😂 Their rum blends beautifully into cocktails and has the nicest flavor. I think I must have had a bad rum experience in my teenage years, because the smell/taste of rums like Captain Morgan’s make me gag a little. Koloa dark rum is a thousand flavor miles from icky spiced dark rums.

Damn, this is so good. Wait, I didn’t even mention the orange bitters! Lemon juice, lime juice, and orange bitters? The mixologist who created this cocktail (Sam Ross in 2008) absolutely knew his flavors. Hats off.