Blackbeard's Ghost

Material Components

  • 1 1/2 ounces orange juice
  • 1 ounce fresh lemon juice
  • 1 ounce falernum
  • 1/2 ounce apricot brandy
  • 1/2 ounce aged blended rum
  • 1 1/2 ounces lightly aged column still rum
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Vessel

double old fashioned glass

Garnish

orange slice, cocktail cherry, and a pirate flag pick

Preparation

  1. Shake well with ice cubes.
  2. Pour unstrained into a double old fashioned glass.
  3. Garnish with an orange slice speared to a cocktail cherry with a pirate flag pick.

Notes

This apparition'll shiver yer tumblers. With citrus, apricot, and falernum sailing on a sea of rum, you may have trouble walking a straight plank.

I keep coming back to this drink, and not just as an excuse to try out a new mug. This time around, I used El Dorado 3 Year and Bully Boy's The Rum Cooperative (2nd edition) for the rums, and the result blew me out of the water.