With that much passion fruit syrup, I knew this would be a very sweet drink. It wasn’t quite as diabetes inducing as I thought, though, and I think the club soda is the reason for that.
I bought some Lillet weeks ago and hadn’t opened it, so I wanted to use it for tonight’s drink. I found this recipe. I think the Citadel was too dry of a gin to use for this. The drink was piney and astringent, and I think the juice hid the Lillet too much. I might try again with a different gin.
Any cocktail with crème de banana used to get the side-eye from me, but I think I’m starting to come around. This is not obnoxiously banana flavored. It’s fairly smooth, and smells more like banana than it tastes.
Here’s another sweet, easy drinker. This called for Demerara rum, which I don’t have, so I substituted the gold Angostura rum instead.
I also had the good fortune to visit Adrift last night,a tiki bar in Denver. I had an excellent Scorpion Bowl and a fine Mai Tai. I have now decided that I need one of those tiki punch bowls at home.
