The Island

 Maroon yourself with this rum sundowner for salty seadogs, care of Falmouth’s Greenbank hotel

Inspired by the current Monsters of the Deep exhibition at the nearby National Maritime Museum Cornwall, this drink is on our cocktail list to pay homage to tales of the sea.

Serves: 1

Ingredients

  50ml aged golden rum

 20ml velvet falernum

 20ml lychee syrup – we use Monin

 50ml pineapple juice

 25ml fresh grapefruit juice

 3 dashes cherry bitters

 To garnish

 1 pineapple leaf

1 slice dehydrated citrus

1 pickled chilli pepper

Directions

1. Put everything in a shaker filled with ice, then shake and fine-strain into a rocks glass. Add crushed ice, garnish with the pineapple leaf, slice of dehydrated citrus and pickled chilli, and serve.

Holly Bennetts, head of mixology, The Greenbank Hotel, Falmouth, Cornwall

Where to buy?

golden rum:

Bumbu The Original 0.7L  https://www.finestore.ro/bumbu-the-original-07l

velvet falernum:

Bitter Truth Golden Falernum 0.5L https://www.alfadrink.ro/produse/produse-cocktail/bitter-truth-golden-falernut-05l

Monin lychee syrup

Monin Litchi Sirop 0.7L  https://www.finestore.ro/monin-litchi-sirop-70cl

 

Notes

 What is Velvet Falernum?

https://www.jaysbeef.com/velvet-falernum/

LE FRUIT DE MONIN LYCHEE

https://www.monin.com/uk/le-fruit-de-monin-lychee.html