Pieces of Eight

Material Components

  • 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
  • 1 1/2 ounces fresh lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 ounces passion fruit syrup
  • 1 1/2 ounces lightly aged column still rum
  • 4 ounces crushed ice

Vessel

large snifter or specialty glass

Garnish

two cocktail cherries speared by a Jolly Roger and eight triangles of pineapple

Preparation

  1. Put everything in a blender.
  2. Blend at high speed for five seconds.
  3. Pour unstrained into a large snifter or specialty glass.
  4. Add more crushed ice to fill.
  5. Garnish with two cocktail cherries speared by a Jolly Roger, and eight triangular chunks of pineapple on a long skewer.

Notes

Prime your cannon and sharpen your cutlass, there's treasure to be won! A piece of eight might only be a quarter of a doubloon, but with a razor-sharp piquancy of lemon, lime, passionfruit, and Caribbean rum, this cocktail is worth its weight in shipwreck gold.

I used El Dorado 3 Year here and I think it's a bit too subtle against the powerhouse (sourhouse?) of lemon and passionfruit. Next time, I'll go with an older column still rum, like Bacardi's Gran Reserva 10. Either way, the drink is worth its weight in doubloons.