You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

Name: You'll Shoot Your Eye Out
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 8 ml Cinnamon Syrup; 3 dash Orange Bitters; 15 ml Bénédictine; 60 ml Gold Rum; 1 twst Orange Peel; 15 ml Becherovka

A stirred, spirit-forward drink on the rocks: gold rum with Becherovka and Bénédictine for herbal spice, rounded off by cinnamon syrup and orange bitters. Created by Mathias Simonis at Distil in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2011.

Similar names: Shoot the Moon

Mathias Simonis of Distil in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, created this drink in 2011 and named it after a well-known line in the film "A Christmas Story." Cinnamon comes through in both the Becherovka and a syrup flavored with spices, alongside aged rum and the herbal Bénédictine. Simonis describes it as a drink for cold winter evenings spent watching holiday films.

Method

Stirred

Glass

rocks

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Herbal

Spicy

Sweet

Warm