Mixing Up the Left Coast, week 10 (part 1)

This week we taste the recipes created by Jimmy Patrick from the SF Bay Area. We haven’t had a chance to try any cocktails from the man himself, the book says he tends the bar at the Lion and Compass in Sunnyvale, CA. Hopefully we'll get a chance to meet him if we head back to the old Homestead! This weeks drinks will be split into two posts because the second drink is a doozey and deserves some extra consideration. Enjoy part 1, the Bohemian ...

Bohemian

1 oz Bacardi Superior Rum

1 oz Lemon Hart Demerara Rum

1 oz St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur

½ oz Licor 43
½ oz Lemon juice
½ oz Lime juice
1 drop absinthe
Lemon peal spiral (garnish)

Shake all ingredients over ice and strain over crushed ice into a highball glass. Garnish with the lemon peel spiral.

The aroma is spicy and a bit of absinthe, but primarily of rum. Somehow all these ingredients make a very strong spiced coffee flavor. Also, the elderflower and Licor 43 are a little overpowering. It is a complex drink with too many flavors warring for attention on your pallet. The second time we tried it out we reduced the St. Germain and Licor 43 by half. This time the aroma is less overpowering, but more lemony and sweet. Unfortunately the flavor was completely overpoweringly coffee and too astringent thanks to the Bacardi. It seems like it needs seltzer or ginger beer to thin it a little. It was not the cocktail for us.

Perhaps next time...