Rum Firewalker
Recipe:
- 60ml Jamaican White Overproof Rum (preferably Hampden Rum Fire)
- 20ml Campari
- 20ml homemade cinnamon syrup
- 20ml fresh lime juice
Shake everything on ice until sufficiently chilled, strain over ice into a Collins glass, garnish with a mint sprig & edible flower.
A drink from the now very popular and well-known TIKI by Mrs. Mustipher, which immediately catches the eye while skipping through the book. Not only because of its uncompromisingly tart and slightly rough sounding recipe, also because of the original quantities of 90/30/30/30ml, which I reduced immediately to better fit into the glass and ones body. Fascinating how the still 20ml cinnamon syrup nevertheless almost disappear in the drink, because of the funky overproof rum and the equally striking Campari.
On the nose you get great mint notes, bitter orange, ester notes, guava and a hint of floral impressions from the flower, a really nice and intense aroma, quite different from what you are used to from "standard" Tiki.
In the mouth grapefruit peel, guava, lemongrass, ester notes and some lamp oil, spicy ginger, cardamom and cinnamon are added in the finish. A top Tiki drink for advanced drinkers and for those occasions where you want to make a bad mood quickly forgotten with a colorful cocktail and cocktail decoration, as well as the appropriate alcohol content.
Source: "TIKI" by Shannon Mustipher, p. 119, originally by Jason Alexander from Tacoma Cabana and Devil's Reef, Washington
