1/2 oz Campari
1/2 oz Green Chartreuse
3/4 oz Neisson Rhum Agricole Blanc
3/4 oz Lime Juice
Shake with ice and strain into a coupe glass.
While I was finishing my Roots of Rum at Backbar, Steven Shellenberger sat down and asked bartender Sam Treadway for "something ruthless." To that request, Sam offered up a riff on Chris McMillian's End of the Road that appears in Beta Cocktails. Chris' drink is equal parts Laphroaig 10 Year Scotch, Campari, and Green Chartreuse. Sam substituted another smoky Scotch, namely Lagavulin but otherwise kept the drink the same in the first half of the volume. To the other half of the volume, he balanced the drink with rhum agricole and lime juice. Since the pairing of rhum agricole and Scotch worked so well in Ben Sandrof's Two Worlds Sour, I asked Sam for this Start of a New Road as my next drink.
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4 comments:
Now that there looks like my idea of a drink.
Thanks Fred. I went to Back Bar, pulled up this post on my phone, and turned it around. Great drink, incredibly complex. Almost makes your head spin.
This is a good one for the hardcore cocktail enthusiast.
The only agricole I have is cuvee de l’ocean. Would that do the trick?
Not familiar with that make, but it's a really modified Daiquiri, so I'm sure that being in an agricole or agricole-style rum ball park will make a delicious drink. It will never be the same as the one I had (hell, limes vary, so even that changes), but it will be in the same feel (and it could even be slightly better) for we use what we have on hand on time (I've seen recipes at bars drift for what they use for a house recipe).
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