Jet Pilot

Material Components

  • 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
  • 3/4 ounce honey mix
  • 1 teaspoon falernum
  • 1/4 teaspoon fassionola syrup
  • 1/2 ounce passion fruit syrup
  • 3/4 ounce lightly aged column still rum
  • 3/4 ounce aged column still rum
  • 3/4 ounce aged pot still rum
  • 3/4 ounce black blended overproof rum
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • 1 drop pernod
  • 1/2 ounce club soda
  • 8 ounces crushed ice

Vessel

double old fashioned glass

Garnish

pineapple chunk speared to a cocktail cherry with a sword pick

Preparation

  1. Put everything in a blender.
  2. Pulse blend for no more than 5 seconds.
  3. Pour into a double old-fashioned glass, adding more ice if necessary.
  4. Garnish with a cocktail cherry speared to a pineapple finger (use a sword pick if you have one).

Notes

Suit up and strap in! This high-octane fuel will have you flying at Mach 3. You have to down five to be called an ace, but don't let your need for speed get you in trouble—it's best to take on one at at time.

Hurricane Hayward has painstakingly fine-tuned his recreation of the Mai Kai classic Jet Pilot. This recipe is his seventh version, taste tested alongside takeout versions of the real deal. Rums used: Hampden Estate Pure Single Jamaican Rum, Angostura White Oak, Flor de Caña 18, and Lemon Hart 151.