Queen's Park Swizzle
Love a Mojito? Try this.
- Style
- Tiki
- Glass
- Collins glass
- Time
- 5 min
Ingredients
- 60mlDemerara Rum
No Demerara Rum? Dark Rum — any darker style rum you love will do the job here
- 22.5mlLime Juicefreshly squeezed
- 15mlDemerara Syruprich, 2:1
No Demerara Syrup? Simple Syrup — clean sweetness with none of the molasses depth — fine in a sour, a real loss in a tiki drink
- 4-6 dashesAngosturaenough the get that dark layer on top
No Angostura? Old Fashioned Bitters — close to Ango, with the same spicy notes — just not the standard bottle
- 8-10 leavesMint
- Garnish
- Mint sprig
Make it well
Directions
This one is super easy and fun to make. It's straight in the glass you'll be drinking from
Into your glass, add mint leaves and give them a little press with your - this releases some oils
Next, in the glass, add your rum, lime juice and syrup
Put your bar spoon in the glass and fill 3/4 full with
Now for the . Take the handle of the bar spoon between your hands and spin the spoon in the glass, like you're trying to make a fire with a wooden stick! The drink will slosh around and make the glass frosty
Do this for about 10-15 seconds
Remove your spoon and top up your glass with more crushed ice. the over the ice creating those beautiful layers and colours
Garnish with mint and throw in a straw
On the palate
On the nose this one is minty and limey. Scorched caramel from the rum and Demerara syrup come through too. On tasting, this is deep and rich, sweet and limey all with a mint perfume. If you like a Mojito, you have to try this. An amazing drink from a beautiful country.
Where it came from
This incredible cocktail takes its name from the Queen's Park Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The hotel opened in 1893 and spent the next few decades as the place America's wealthy stayed when they came to the island, all ballrooms and verandas and very long lunches. The drink itself came later, some time in the 1920s, and it was Trader Vic who did most to spread it. He called it "the most delightful form of anesthesia given out today" in 1946, and printed the recipe in the first edition of his Bartender's Guide the year after. Sadly the Queen's Park Hotel closed its doors in 1996, but this incredible drink lives on.
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The bartender’s note
One drink, one story, one bottle worth buying.
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