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Demerara Cocktail

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Double Old-Fashioned

A simple, rum-forward Donn-era proto-cocktail in the Demerara family, lime, demerara syrup, aged Demerara rum, and a dash of Angostura.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (0.5 oz)
  • demerara syrup (0.5 oz)
  • Angostura bitters (1 dash)
  • aged Demerara rum (2 oz)
  • ice cube (1)
  • lime wheel (1)

Instructions

  1. In a double old-fashioned glass combine fresh lime juice, demerara syrup, Angostura bitters, and aged Demerara rum.
  2. Add a large ice cube and stir briefly to combine.
  3. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Sources

  1. Berry, Sippin' Safari (2017 ed.), Don the Beachcomber chapter, recovers the Demerara Cocktail from Donn Beach's recipe files as the simpler proto-cocktail in the Demerara family; the build-over-large-rock technique used here is the standard old-fashioned application. ↩