Your Average Rum Drink

It’s been a long week and it’s only Wednesday. Admittedly, it felt like a long week when it was only Monday. The work day is finally over, I have no obligations tonight, and so a drink was in order, and strong one at that.

2 oz passion fruit juice
1 ½ oz Brugal Añejo rum
1 ½ Rhum Barbancourt 8 year
1 oz Xotikal coconut liqueur
½ oz John D. Taylor’s velvet falernum
½ oz Benchmark brown sugar liqueur
1 barspoon lime juice
1 barspoon salted yuzu juice
5 dashes of Bittermen’s Elemakule Tiki bitters

Combine all ingredients into an ice-filled glass, realize you should have used a bigger tiki mug but somehow still manage to get it all in there. Stir very gently, because seriously, there is no room for error. Take a couple delicate sips, and then spill some on your feet as you go to take a picture for the interwebs.

This is delightful, and refreshing, and feels like a pretty standard rum punch at first blush, but has some interesting notes going on in it with each sip.

The front end is passion fruit tartness and sweetness from the Brugal and the brown sugar liqueur. The coconut creeps in along with the spices of the falernum and bitters, but quickly gives way to the twang of the Barbancourt towards the end. You don’t get to linger on it too long though because of the very, very slightly salty finish of the salt preserved yuzu juice that comes as a nice
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