Benjamin Barker Daiquiri
Recipe:
- 60ml Gosling's Black Seal Rum
- 22.5ml fresh lime juice
- 15ml Campari
- 15ml demerara syrup (2:1)
- 2 dashes (ca. 1/2 bsp) Vieux Pontarlier Absinthe (or other quality absinthe)
Shake everything on ice until sufficiently chilled, strain into your prechilled coupe of choice, garnish with a lime wedge or wheel.
In the nose dark toffee, manuka honey, leather, bitter orange, fresh lime and a touch of anise.
Tasting, you got dark chocolate at the start, bitter orange, dark honey, delicate anise, and licorice. Then some dry tobacco, oregano, lime zest, on the finish the anise becomes a bit more present but still remains nicely integrated, dry lime zest and bitter orange, licorice and some fennel.
The Benjamin Barker Daiquiri is one of those drinks where "exciting" is really the main word that comes to mind first, bad or boring it is definitely not, but maybe not for everyone's taste either. In particular, you have to put aside the picture of your standard daiquiri and understand this as quite a different drink, then you probably can really admire it with its volume of flavors.
It's an acquired taste as they say. It is somehow everything at once, sweet, fresh, bitter, especially this "illusion" of chocolate is exciting from the combo Gosling-Campari-absinthe-demerara. But I like it more and more!
Source: “Death & Co” by Day, Fauchald, Kaplan, p. 261
