Here’s a random Sunday afternoon concoction. Not so different from an Applejack Sling, it turns out, but richer and more tannic. Almost tea-like.
1 oz. Meyer lemon juice
3/4 oz. Tuaca
3/4 oz. pimento dram
2 dashes Fee’s Old Fashioned Bitters
Shake well with cracked ice, strain into highball glass of crushed ice, top with a few squirts of seltzer
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I’ve had some homemade pimento dram on hand for several months now, but haven’t really put it to much complicated use. It’s delicious just splashed into a rocks glass filled with ice and the brown spirit of your choice, which is how I’ve been been working my way through it to date. Do yourself a favor and make some, if you haven’t already… you can’t buy the stuff in the States these days, and it’s a unique addition anytime you’re in the mood for some tropical spice. There’s a boatload of sugar in it as well, which allows pimento dram to serve as a grenadine or simple syrup would, while delivering its allspice punch.
At any rate, a sunny(ish) April afternoon begged for a long(ish) drink of some sort. I was thinking of a Brandy Presbyterian — one of Dad’s favorites — when the unlabeled bottle of pimento dram caught my eye and begged to be included. As someone who’s baked more than his share of apple pies, this was a drink I couldn’t help but concoct. There are countless recipes said to approximate the flavor of hot apple pie — this one’s more like a nice slab of cold apple pie straight from the icebox: fruity, sour, tannic and spicy. It’s a very quaffable cooler.
Tags: applejack, bitters, enjoy, lemon juice, long, pimento dram, seltzer, Tuaca
Hmm. I realize, in that there’s applejack, pimento dram and Fee’s bitters called for, this looks to be a long, but abbreviated, relative of Chuck Taggart’s Réveillon cocktail. I’d forgotten about that recipe… my pimento dram was still marinating when Chuck posted it. Reminds me that I need a decent pear eau-de-vie, too.
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Oh, I wish you still posted to this blog! In any case, I wanted to see if you had any recipes for Allspice Dram since I was just recently turned on to it. There’s now a dram available in the U.S. — St. Elizabeth’s Allspice Dram. I’m off to buy a bottle of it at the Pearl District liquor store. I want to make some kind of “apple pie” cocktail. I’m pick up Calvados and the dram and I’m thinking I could add some cream to it…? I’m not an experienced mixologist so I’m kind of guessing. We’ll see!
Jack said: “At any rate, a sunny(ish) April afternoon begged for a long(ish) drink of some sort… this was a drink I couldn’t help but concoct”
You just have to try a Margaritaville Frozen Concoction Maker for concocting the most delicious drink for any kind of pie.
You guys are making me thirsty. And hungry for some pie! Apple pie. Or better yet apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream. yum.