Scarlet Macaw

Name: Scarlet Macaw
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 8 ml Simple Syrup; 1 tsp Molasses Syrup; 23 ml Lime Wedge; 1 tsp Molasses Syrup (2:1 Fancy Molasses : Water); 23 ml Jamaican Rum; 8 ml Crème de Banane; 30 ml Pineapple; 23 ml Dark Rum; 23 ml Campari

A shaken rum drink where dark and Jamaican rum meet Campari's bitterness, pineapple, banana liqueur and molasses syrup. Created by Nolan Merryweather at Bar Clementine in 2023.

Nolan Merryweather of Bar Clementine created the Scarlet Macaw in 2023 as an improvement on the Blackstrap and its early-2000s update, using Dave Arnold's Morgenthaler method as a guide. The rum base pairs Coruba, chosen for its banana and molasses notes, with Planter's Original Dark, and the drink uses a smaller amount of raw sugar syrup plus a little fancy molasses syrup, with less pineapple juice. Giffard Banane du Brasil was tried first for the banana note but came across as artificial, so Campari infused with cooked banana took its place, steering the drink toward a Jungle Bird.

Method

Shaken

Glass

rocks

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Creamy

Fruity

Sweet

Tropical