this bitter pill

1 1/2 Pineapple-Infused Rum (Planteray Stiggins')
3/4 oz Amaro Montenegro
3/4 oz Campari
2 dash Orange Bitters (Angostura Orange)

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with a large ice cube, and garnish with a pineapple wedge (omit).Two Thursdays ago, I decided to make a cocktail from the Polite Provisions "Emo Tiki Pop Up" in 2023 called This Bitter Pill that I sourced from online recipe flashcards. The drink was named after a Dashboard Confessional song from 2001, and I was drawn in by the Montenegro-Campari duo that I was first introduced to by bartender Paul Manzelli at Bergamot in the Monte Cassino and Montenegroni and later saw elsewhere in the Nearly Headless Nickroni, Pink Rabbit, and Smoke in the Well. The recipe's 2:1:1 structure reminded me of the Dashboard Hula Girl given the pineapple rum, but that drink contained Averna and Amontillado though. In the glass, This Bitter Pill lit up with pineapple, orange, and caramel aromas. Next, caramel and tropical fruit notes on the sip slid into rum, pineapple, orange, and bitter flavors on the swallow.