Captain Kidd Cup

by the modern serf

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.

Other notes: according to the Boston Globe, I am now a freelance bartender! All the other contestants were actual professionals; I was the only chump fumbling around with the tools. I was first to mix, so i wasted a bit of time just getting my shit together, getting the brand new bottles open, knocking over glasses, and other various embarrassments. I fumbled during my limerick presentation, too, but I recovered without too much shame.

Oh, and that limerick?

There once was a pirate named Kidd;
a-pillage and plunder he did;
he buried his treasure
and drank to his pleasure
but lost where the treasure was hid.

Definite lack of dick jokes, but (in my opinion) the best of the night.