That’s what i called my qualifying but non-winning entry into the Hendrick’s beantown bartender limerick throwdown boogaloo.
1.5 oz gin
.5 oz pimento dram
.5 oz Pimm’s
.5 oz lemon juice
top ginger beer
garnish lemon wedge & cucumber spear
How does it taste? Yummy, but not much like gin, which was probably a problem. When I first made it, I used my own allspice infusion (see a future article on using sous-vide techniques to do a months work in an hour without blowing your house up) which was pretty mild. The St. Elizabeth allspice dram was quite a bit tastier, but also a lot stronger. (It was also much more expensive at $28 for a 375ml bottle, versus about $8 for the ingredients to make that much.) I didn’t adjust the recipe accordingly and that probably resulted in a one dimensional drink.