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Allspice Dram | aka Pimento Dram |

Allspice Dram | aka Pimento Dram |

On the prompting of a cocktail buddy I made my own Allspice Dram, also know as Pimento Dram. Sure you can buy this, I think there are four companies making it currently, but its is so easy and homemade is always so much more authentic and flavorful why not give it a go. What is Allspice Dram? In reality, stripping away the mystique, it is just sweetened spiced rum. But spiced very specific way,…

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Donn Beach's Rum Barrel

I am a tiki guy. Not because I particularly enjoy the aesthetics (weirdly appropriative in hindsight!), or the beach (I regret moving to the tropics each and every single day of my life, without exception). But because tiki and I share a common interest: making every cocktail use far more bottles than it has any right to. The Rum Barrel is perhaps most emblematic of that.

Just look at this.

1 oz lightly aged rum (Probitas)

1 oz overproof Jamaican pot still (Smith & Cross)

1/2 oz orange juice (Trader Joe's)

1/2 oz pineapple juice (Trader Joe's cold pressed)

1/2 oz grapefruit juice (Trader Joe's)

3/8 oz lime juice (fresh)

1/4 oz honey syrup (Honeybee)

1/8 oz grenadine (Liber & Co.)

1/8 oz allspice dram (St. Elizabeth)

1/8 oz falernum (John D. Taylor's)

1/12 oz absinthe (Lucid)

Light dash Angostura bitters

Shake on ice, strain, serve over crushed ice because I didn't feel like getting the blender out.

Very disappointed in this one. So many flavors it resolves ultimately to nothing. Some falernum on the nose, some lingering allspice and grapefruit on the finish, and there's rum somewhere beneath the static, but it all mostly serves to cancel each other out. A waste of effort and ingredients.

I used the following recipe:

Rum Barrel (by Donn Beach) Cocktail Recipe

Discover how to make a Rum Barrel (by Donn Beach) using Light white rum, Jamaican OP aged rum, Orange juice (+ 9 more) in just 4 easy to fol

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The Approximation No. 1, an earnest homage to La Factoría’s Guanábana Milk Punch.

The Approximation No. 1 Back when we went to San Juan in early March, I was really excited to visit Old San Juan, and while we had a lovely afternoon walking around it and enjoying a pina colada, I was bummed that we didn’t have the opportunity to go back and get some meals there. Fast-forward to September, and we decided to spend a few days back in San Juan as an early-anniversary trip…

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Cocktails With Christie: Clarified Milk Punch

Inspiration: One day, whilst wandering down a rabbit hole of tangentially related shows on my cable box’s menu screen, I stumbled upon Alton Brown’s show Good Eats — not the original version but The Return. And I’m hooked! His blend of history, skits, culinary hints-tips-& tricks, and very clear recipe walk-thrus made me an instant fan. Now, while binge-watching Good Eats The Return, our host…

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Lions Tail Cocktail | Bourbon and Allspice |

Lions Tail Cocktail | Bourbon and Allspice |

Lions Tale is the Delirious Imbibers Drink Of the Week The Lions Tail was Will’s choice, and its another unique one. Last time around Will brought us the Artichoke Hold, and rare Cynar based tiki, this week its Bourbon, Lime and Allspice, not a common combo. Personally I had never had of this drink or paid any attention to it so I had to do a little research. Turns out a little research is all…

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Black Christmas Bottled Cocktails

NEW recipe post!! Black Christmas Bottled Cocktails for the holiday season!

Instead of hitting the Black Friday sales today (and let’s face it, it’s slim picking at this point since they all started on Monday anyways), let’s hit the home bar and think ahead towards the next several weeks. It’s going to be busy… you should have some cocktails ready.

Now, I named this spin on a Black Manhattan “Black Christmas” because it’s mostly a Black Manhattan with a touch of Allspice…

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