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Three Dots & a Dash

Written by
Martin Cate
Martin Cate is an award-winning bartender and author, and the owner of Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco.
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Martin Cate
Published 06/10/16

This Tiki drink is what the category of drink is all about, with citrus, sweeteners, spice and, of course, rums.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 oz AOC Martinique rhum agricole vieux
  • 1/2 oz Blended aged rum
  • 1/4 oz John D. Taylor’s Velvet falernum
  • 1/4 oz St. Elizabeth allspice dram
  • 1/2 oz Fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 oz Fresh orange juice
  • 1/2 oz Honey syrup
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters
  • 3 maraschino cherries on a cocktail pick and 1 pineapple frond (representing Morse Code—three cherries as the three dots and the frond as the dash), for garnish

Steps

  1. Add all of the ingredients to a drink mixer tin.

  2. Fill with 12 oz of crushed ice and 4 to 6 small “agitator” cubes.

  3. Flash-blend, then open pour with gated finish into a footed pilsner glass and add the garnish.