red skies at night

2 oz Berkshire's Greylock Gin
1/2 oz Hibiscus Tea Syrup
1 bsp Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
1/2 oz Lime Juice
6-8 leaf Mint

Muddle mint in the syrup in a Collins glass. Add the rest of the ingredients, fill with crushed ice, and swizzle to mix and chill while keeping the mint at the bottom of the glass. Top with crushed ice, add a straw, and garnish with 3 dash Angostura Bitters.
For my drink of the day at Loyal Nine two Saturdays ago, I decided to make a hibiscus tisane syrup again and was inspired by two things. The first was the old mariner rhyme "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning" given the coloration, and I thought about the opening menu's Pink Gin riff called "Sailor's Delight." Modulating that was the second thing that inspired me -- the Queen's Park Swizzle (and gin variations such as the Hyde Park Swizzle). To tease out some fruit notes from the hibiscus, I added a dash of Maraschino to the mix, but kept things structured to the modern interpretation of the Queen's Park Swizzle (the original as written included the bitters in the mix and not as a garnish, instead of the modern day three color layer version).