Post #588520 by thePorpoise on Mon, May 9, 2011 9:43 PM

okay, here's what i settled on, an amalgamation of the various recipes out there, and pretty damn tasty i might add:

1/2 oz lime;
1 oz turbinado simple syrup, 1/2 oz grenadine for color;
2 oz Pusser's, 1 oz Gosling Black Seal;
1 oz OJ, 1 oz pineapple juice, 1 oz guava nectar, 1 oz soda water.
and, 1 dash Angostura bitters, 1 dash Peychaud's bitters.

so, sort of a 1/2 sour, 1 and 1/2 sweet, 3 rum, 4 juicy/weak.

this was well balanced between the sour, sweet, smoky dark rum, and juice flavors.

I've seen this drink on menus for years and have never sampled it. Interesting mystery. Was it invented as rumored by a Jamaican planter's wife, or, as also rumored, by Jerry Thomas at the St Louis Planter's House bar??

either way, i'm looking forward, when i have more time, to comparing the 'juices' version of this drink with a well-made hurricane..