brethren of the coast

2 oz Rhum Barbancourt 8 Year
1/2 oz Demerara Syrup
2 dash Peychaud's Bitters
2 dash House Ginger Bitters (King Floyd's Scorched Pear & Ginger)

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass, and garnish with a lime twist.Two Thursdays prior, I opened up my copy of Eastern Standard's bar bible from their pre-Pandemic days, and I spotted the Rhum Old Fashioned dubbed the Brethren of the Coast. The call for Haitian spirit made sense once I discovered that buccaneers off the coast of Hispanola (now Haiti and Dominica) who sought revenge on the Spanish called themselves "The Brethren of the Coast." Once prepared, the drink sailed to the nose with lime and barrel-aged spirit notes. Next, a semi-sweet sip unfurled into rum, cherry, pear, anise, and ginger flavors on the swallow.