Little Caribbean

Name: Little Caribbean
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 8 ml Orgeat; 2 dash Angostura Bitters; 1 dash Peychaud's Bitters; 30 ml Rye Whiskey; 1 Maraschino Cherry; 23 ml Sweet Vermouth; 1 rinse Pastis; 30 ml Pineapple Rum

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Stir Rye Whiskey, Pineapple Rum, Sweet Vermouth, Orgeat with ice. Strain into a coupe.

A friend stopped by the Smoke Shop for dinner one evening and asked for a Manhattan as his second drink. When I offered options ranging from classic to tropical, he went with the latter since he had been making Tiki drinks over the weekend. Inspired by the Martinique cocktail from "Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars: 1903-1933," I created a variation using rye whiskey and pineapple rum in equal parts, replacing the sweet vermouth with Punt e Mes, Angostura bitters, and Peychaud's. I named it the Little Caribbean after a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Fruity

Herbal

Strong

Sweet