Colonial Ties

Ingredients

• 1 barspoon Soda water (1/2 oz still water)
• 2 dash Orange bitters (angostura orange)
• 1 Brown sugar cube (demerara)
• 1 oz Jamaican rum (1/2 oz smith & cross + 1/2 oz plantation xaymaca)
• 1 oz Rye whiskey (rittenhouse bonded)

Instructions

Soak the sugar cube with bitters, add the soda water, and muddle into a paste. Add the spirits and ice, stir, strain into an absinthe-rinsed (St. George) whiskey glass, and garnish with a lemon twist on the edge of the glass.