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My First Original Cocktail

I’ve been brainstorming over the past week about a cocktail I want to create. It’ll be my first original cocktail, and I’ve been very excited about the creative process.

I knew I wanted it to be a tiki cocktail, and I knew the direction I wanted to go with the name and the concept it’ll be in reference to, so I figured I had a decent starting point.

Building the drink around a specific flavor profile, I picked my ingredients very carefully. For the rum, I chose Denizen Merchant’s Reserve, which is a pot still blend of aged Jamaican style rum and a rare rum Agricole from Martinique. I’m also using a mezcal and an ancho chili liqueur to add smoke and spice.

To tie it back into the Tiki realm, I’ll be using some of my homemade orgeat and cinnamon simple syrup. For citrus, I’m using mostly lime, with a touch of white grapefruit juice, and to give it a kick of heat on the lips, I’m going to use a spicy bitters.

I’m still tinkering with it, of course, but I had a chance to taste my first couple versions of it last night, and I was very pleased. This is all so fun and exciting to me. It’s really satisfying my creative needs which have been more or less dormant for quite a while.

I’ll keep you all posted!