[a summer flip]

1 1/2 oz Renegade Guyana Rum 16 Yr.
1 oz Cherry Simple Syrup
1/4 oz Cruzan Blackstrap Rum
1/4 oz Apricot Liqueur
1 Egg

Shake once without and once with ice. Strain into a coupe glass pre-rinsed with Lustau East India Solera Sherry.

For my second drink at Eastern Standard on Monday night, I asked Hugh Fiore for a flip. He pulled out a Demerara rum from the Renegade Rum Company and gave it a sniff. Hugh said that something about the smell of that rum screamed "cherry" so he decided to use the housemade simple syrup with natural cherry extract added. In the flip, the rum and cherry flavors did work rather well together and the sherry donated a bit to the mouthfeel. As the drink warmed up, the blackstrap rum flavors began to appear more. Andrea seemed a bit envious of my "summer flip" and Hugh seemed a bit proud of what he had just created and for good reason.