Rougarou Daiquiri

Name: Rougarou Daiquiri
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 53 ml AñEjo Rum; 15 ml Lime Juice; 23 ml Cynar; 4 ml Allspice Dram

A shaken, daiquiri-style drink where añejo rum meets the bitter Cynar. Lime juice adds sourness and a little allspice dram adds warm spice. Created by Frederic Yarm at Loyal Nine in Cambridge, MA, in 2017.

Frederic Yarm devised this Daiquiri variation at Loyal Nine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after a New Orleans native at Tales of the Cocktail 2017 described the bayou legend of the Rougarou, a werewolf-like swamp creature said to carry off children. The name is thought to come from the French loup-garou, reshaped in spelling and pronunciation by Cajun communities. Drawing on the Navy Dock Daiquiri and the Frequent Flier, Yarm chose Barbancourt 8 Year rhum over Smith & Cross for its mild funk and its Haitian mystical associations.

Method

Shaken

Glass

cocktail

Difficulty

Medium

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Herbal

Sour

Spicy