Beachcomber's Gold (Chicago)

Name: Beachcomber's Gold (Chicago)
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: Tiki
Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces lightly aged column still rum; 1/2 ounce French vermouth; 1/2 ounce Italian vermouth; 6 drops pernod; 1 dash Angostura bitters; 2 ounces crushed ice

Material Components

1 1/2 ounces lightly aged column still rum
1/2 ounce French vermouth
1/2 ounce Italian vermouth
6 drops pernod
1 dash Angostura bitters
2 ounces crushed ice

Vessel

coupe

Garnish

ice shell

Preparation

Put everything into a blender.
Blend at high speed for no more than five seconds.
Strain through a fine-mesh wire seive into a coupe glass lined with an "ice shell" forming a hood over the glass.
Serve with short straws.

Notes

A Don the Beachcomber's drink with no citrus? Only in the 70s! Still, it's a very tasty drink and might serve as a gateway Tiki drink for Negroni/Manhattan people.

I used Denizen Aged White Rum this time around. It was very good, but I'm looking forward to trying again with Privateer New England White Rum, which I think might complement the vermouths (Maurin Dry and Boissiere Rosso) a bit better.