Test Pilot

Material Components

  • 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 ounce falernum
  • 3 teaspoons Cointreau
  • 1 1/2 ounces aged pot still rum
  • 3/4 ounce lightly aged column still rum
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters
  • 6 drops pernod
  • 8 ounces crushed ice

Vessel

double old fashioned glass

Garnish

cocktail cherry speared to a wooden oyster fork

Preparation

  1. Put everything in a blender.
  2. Blend at high speed for five seconds.
  3. Add more crushed ice to fill.
  4. Garnish with a cocktail cherry speared to a wooden oyster fork.

Notes

It's a dangerous job, but someone has to do it. Get your wings with this much-copied Don the Beachcomber classic!

Rums used: Smith & Cross and Bacardi 1909 Superior Heritage.