Caliban’s Pour cocktail

  • 1½oz cognac
  • ½oz black strap rum
  • ⅓oz rich simple syrup (brown, 2:1)
  • ¼oz Braulio amaro

Stir, serve up in a chilled coupe.

Other rums tested:

  • Plantation (Aged 5 Years) - also very nice

Honeyed variant

Replace the rum with more cognac, add ¼oz yellow chartreuse. Tastes like a complex mead.

Rhubarb variant

  • 1½oz cognac
  • ½oz black strap rum
  • ⅓oz rabarbaro sfumato
  • ¼oz rich simple syrup
  • ½oz orgeat

Rye variant

See Dandelion Rye cocktail

Rum variant

See Cibola Rum cocktail