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Rum

Sidewinder's Fang

Glass
Snifter

A Cobra's Fang cousin from Lanai, Jamaican and Demerara rums lit up with citrus and passion fruit.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (1.5 oz)
  • fresh orange juice (1.5 oz)
  • passion fruit syrup (1.5 oz)
  • Demerara rum (1 oz)
  • dark Jamaican rum (1 oz)
  • club soda (3 oz)
  • orange peel (1)
  • mint sprig (1)

Instructions

  1. Combine the fresh lime juice, fresh orange juice, passion fruit syrup, Demerara rum, and dark Jamaican rum in a shaker with cracked ice. Shake briefly and pour the entire contents (ice and all) into a snifter. Carefully stir in club soda and add more crushed ice as needed.
  2. Garnish with a long continuous orange peel curled into the glass like a snake and a mint sprig.

Sources

  1. Berry, Beachbum Berry Remixed (2010), Sidewinder's Fang entry, documents the Lanai (San Mateo, c. 1960) provenance, the Cobra's Fang cousin status, and the coiled-orange-peel garnish. ↩
  2. Summit Sips, "Sidewinder's Fang." https://summitsips.com/2018/04/sidewinders-fang/ (accessed 2026-05-03), frontmatter source URL; reproduces the Berry spec and the Lanai venue history. ↩