The Old Jamaican Cocktail
About the Old Jamaican Cocktail
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Ingredients in the Old Jamaican Cocktail
- 1 sprig Fresh mint
- 1 oz Fresh lime juice
- 1.5 oz Appleton Estate Reserve Rum
- .75 oz Pure cane simple syrup (one part pure cane sugar, one part water)
- 1 dash Angostura Bitters
- Champagne
Garnish: Mint sprig
Glass: Highball
How to make the Old Jamaican Cocktail
In a shaker, gently muddle the mint and lime juice. Add the remaining ingredients except the Champagne and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice. Top with Champagne and garnish with a mint sprig.
How much mint gets muddled? A sprig? It recommends a sprig for garnish, but nothing for the recipe.
Take 3-4 mint(more to taste) leaves from the sprig, and muddle them use the rest for garnish. or use a fresh sprig for garnish. Its really up to you to make it your drink. I was thinking about replacing the cane sugar with 1/2 of ginger liqueur and 1/4 cane sugar.
It calls for a sprig in the recipe and a sprig for garnish.