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151 Swizzle

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Swizzle Cup

High-octane Demerara 151 swizzle from Don the Beachcomber, dusted with nutmeg over crushed ice.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (0.5 oz)
  • sugar syrup (0.5 oz)
  • Angostura bitters (1 dash)
  • Pernod (6 drops)
  • 151-proof Demerara rum (1.5 oz)
  • crushed ice (1 cup)
  • grated nutmeg (1 pinch)
  • cinnamon stick (1)

Instructions

  1. In a blender combine fresh lime juice, sugar syrup, Angostura bitters, Pernod, 151-proof Demerara rum, and crushed ice.
  2. Flash-blend on high for .
  3. Pour unstrained into a flared metal swizzle cup, adding more crushed ice to fill.
  4. Dust with grated nutmeg and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Sources

  1. Berry, Potions of the Caribbean (2014), swizzle / Trinidad chapters, documents the Trinidadian / Queen's Park Hotel codification of the swizzle form and the bois-lélé stick (cut from Quararibea turbinata) as the traditional swizzle implement. ↩
  2. Berry, Beachbum Berry's Grog Log (1998), 151 Swizzle entry (p. 45), Berry's Donn Beach-attributed spec, the source for the overproof-Demerara application of the Trinidadian swizzle form. ↩
  3. Beachbum Berry, "151 Swizzle." https://beachbumberry.com/recipe-swizzle.html (accessed 2026-05-03), Berry's published reconstruction; source for this file's measurement bill. ↩