Queen's Park Swizzle

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“A Queen's Park Swizzle”

Cocktail bar: Needs a real cocktail bar (or your own kitchen).

Gold or aged rum

ValueBacardi Gold

Good callAppleton Estate or Mount Gay

SplurgeDiplomático Reserva Exclusiva

If they can't make it: A Mojito

Queen's Park Swizzle

What you need

Glass: Highball

• 2 oz aged rum
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 3/4 oz demerara or simple syrup
• 8 mint leaves
• 4 dashes Angostura bitters

Making a pitcher? 8 oz is 1 cup, and a 750 ml bottle is about 25 oz. Stir the batch with ice, or add the bubbly and soda right before pouring.

Make it

1. Press mint with syrup in the glass, add rum and lime.
2. Fill with crushed ice and swizzle (spin a spoon between your hands).
3. Shake the bitters over the top.

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