Rum motherfuckers

Question 1

Queens Park Swizzle

Answer 1

2.0 oz Xaymaca
.75 lime
.75 demerara, cane, or simple
10ish mint leaves
6-8 dash ago to top

muddle mint w/ syrup and lime in collins (get oils on insides of glass)
add crushed to glass
add rum, swizzle, top with additional crushed
top ango, mint sprig to garnish

Question 2

Navy Grog

Answer 2

1.0 oz gold (Demerara rum, El Dorado)
1.0 oz dark (Appleton)
1.0 oz white (Puerto Rican, Cuban, Bacardi)
1.0 oz honey syrup
.75 lime
.75 grapefruit
.75 soda water

shake, strain, rocks glass, gold draft ice, mint sprig

Question 3

Old Cuban

Answer 3

1.5 Aged Rum
.75 simple
.5 lime
2 dash Ango
6-8 mint leaves
Champagne to top (2 oz)

shake, double strain, coupe, top with champagne

Question 4

El Presidente

Answer 4

1.5 Cuban white rum
1.0 oz Dolin Blanc
.5 Cointreau
bsp grenadine

stir, strain, up in coupe
cherry and expressed manicured orange swath on pick

Question 5

Hotel Nacional

Answer 5

2.0 oz Aged Rum (bounty dark)
.75 pineapple
.5 lime
.25 Luxardo Apricot liqueur
(lots of specs add .5 cane syrup or .5 simple)

shake, strain, couple, lime wheel

Question 6

Hemingway Daiquiri

Answer 6

2.0 white rum
.5 Maraschino
.5 grapefruit
.75 lime
.25 simple (optional)

shake, strain, coupe, lime wheel

Question 7

MaiTai

Answer 7

1.0 oz Xaymaca
1.0 Clement VSOP
.75 lime (incl 1/2 carcass for oils)
.75 or .5 orgeat (to taste – drink should be dry)
.5 Cointreau
floater of some dark rum (or rework to 1.5 base + .5 floater depending on how the rums taste, maybe add .25 Clement Canne Bleue to dry out)

whip shake, collins, with crushed, mint and lime carcass garnish

Question 8

Ti Punch

Answer 8

2.0 Clement Canne Bleue
bsp cane syrup
lime coins expressed

build in glass, twist lime to coat glass, add syrup, rum, stir with ice

Question 9

Three Dots and a Dash

Answer 9

1.0 Clement VSOP
1.0 Bounty Dark
1.0 lime
.5 Cointreau
.5 falernum
.5 honey
.25 allspice dram
3 dash ango

toss, crushed, collins/pilsner, 3 cherries on a stick and pineapple frond garnish

Question 10

Daiquiri

Answer 10

2.0 Xaymaca or Bounty White (or split base this bitch)
3/4 simple
3/4 lime

shake, strain, coupe

Question 11

Jungle Bird

Answer 11

1.5 Xaymaca (or blackstrap if avail)
1.5 pineapple
.5 Campari
.5 lime
.5 simple

whip shake, tulip or dbl OF, top fresh crushed, orange 1/2 moon garnish