This drink features Plantation Spirits Stiggins Fancy Pineapple Rum – a flavorful rum blend infused with ripe pineapple that tastes nothing like those crappy mass-produced and artificially- flavored versions on the bottom shelf of your local liquor store. Stiggins Rum is fantastic as the base for a rum Old-fashioned but equally marvelous in this daiquiri.
I first tried this drink when we turned the clocks back in the Fall of 2020 to lament the ever-decreasing hours of sunlight as chillier temps took hold. The Sunflower was created by the legendary Sam Ross as a riff on the classic Corpse Reviver No. 2 on the opposite page. It highlights the woody notes of Ransom Old Tom gin, a label that recreates the gin of the mid-to-late 1800s, which spent a lot of time in oak barrels traversing the Atlantic as well as the trip to the burgeoning West Coast of the Gold Rush and beyond. The woody gin and its botanicals play in unique ways with the anise-flavored rinse. The drink may be a tad sweet given the two liqueurs, you might adjust the St- Germain and Cointreau down and the gin up by 1/4 oz. each.
Who knew whiskey could go tiki? This drink follows a common tiki theme, using an almond syrup known as orgeat (see recipe). We use the “whip shake” technique here, shaking with a small amount of crushed ice, an ideal technique for strong drinks served over crushed ice to minimize overdilution.
Created in the mid 2010s, this one swaps out the original’s heavy herbal green Chartreuse and maraschino cherry liqueur for lighter, floral components like Yellow Chartreuse and St. Germain elderflower liqueur.
