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Planter’s Punch.
I’ve been exploring different Planter’s Punch recipes and I made one tonight that I think is better than Stephen Remsberg’s version and Smuggler’s Cove. I like those quite a bit, but feel that I’d like something a bit stronger, more rummy. Here is what I came up with:
1 oz Rhum Barbancourt 8 Star
1 oz Coruba
1 oz Planteray Xaymaca
1/4 oz Demerara Syrup (Liber)
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
3/4+ fresh lime juice
2 dashes of bitters
What did you make, recipe? How was it?
Naked Ape used the following recipe Naked Ape Cocktail Recipe
I used hampden rum fire as I don’t have any high esters and used FS 2008 for the dark rum. It tasted okay but the rum fire over-powered it. 5/10
A while back I purchased a bottle of Suze to make a white negroni, which subs out Campari for Suze (and uses a different vermouth). That got me thinking about other cocktails in which you can replace Campari with Suze, which lead to me creating this cocktail! It is a riff on a jungle bird, but the taste profile is totally different. The colour is a nuclear yellow with a green tint, really cool aesthetic.
I’ve tried this recipe with both Savanna Creol 52 and Clairin Le Rocher. Ideally you pick something with some character and abv around 50%. Like a Clairin, Savanna, Mexican, Mhoba, etc.
