Rum Old Fashioned - Jamaican

Stolen from nateeagele.com -- A High Wind in Jamaica

Ingredients

• 2 oz overproof, unaged Jamaican rum (like Wray & Nephew White Overproof)
• 1 tsp crème de banane (Banana de Brasil, or Crème de Banane)
• 1 dash tiki bitters

Instructions

1. Mix all ingredients
2. Dry shake (shake with no ice) to aerate the egg white
3. Add Ice and shake over ice
4. Serve and Enjoy!

Notes

I don’t spend a lot of my time inventing new cocktails: I like the classics, and appreciate how hard it is to contribute meaningfully to the existing canon. But I’ve come back over and over again to this riff on a rum old fashioned that I created to bring together two of my favorite things: Jamaica’s national rum, Wray & Nephew White Overproof, and crème de banane.

We are currently blessed with two tremendous versions of the latter: Banane du Brésil and Tempus Fugit’s Crème de Banane. They’re different and each is worth having. That means we need more cocktails that use them, so I pulled a basic Mr. Potato Head on an old fashioned: overproof rum for the rye, crème de banane for the sugar/simple syrup, and tiki bitters for angostura.

It would be in the spirit of things to use other interesting Jamaican overproofs, including aged ones. A non-Jamaican rum would be another drink entirely.

It’s named after the 1929 novel by Richard Hughes, which is one of the most disturbing books I’ve ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough.