Rum Cocktail Recipes, Tequila Cocktail Recipes

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Dark rum, tequila, simple syrup, lemon 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 cocktail 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.