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

Rye whiskey and pineapple rum stirred with sweet vermouth, a little orgeat and two kinds of bitters in a pastis-rinsed coupe, finished with a maraschino cherry. Rich and spicy with a pineapple lift and a faint anise note; created by Fred Yarm at The Smoke Shop in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 2021.

Fred Yarm created the Little Caribbean at The Smoke Shop in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 2021, after a friend who had been making tiki drinks asked for a Manhattan and chose a tropical option from the menu instead. It draws on the Martinique cocktail from "Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars: 1903-1933", using equal parts rye whiskey and pineapple rum, with Punt e Mes, Angostura and Peychaud's bitters in place of sweet vermouth. The name comes from a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Fruity

Herbal

Strong

Sweet