Cocktail recipe

A.S. Kingston Negroni

A stirred cocktail featuring Overproof Rum, Campari, Sweet Vermouth.

A.S. Kingston Negroni cocktail

Ingredients

  • 30 ml Overproof Rum
  • 30 ml Campari
  • 22.5 ml Sweet Vermouth
  • 7.5 ml Sherry
  • 5 Coffee

Method

  1. Use five whole coffee beans for the coffee component; place them in the mixing glass with the liquids.
  2. Add the rum, Campari, vermouth, and sherry to the coffee beans in the mixing glass, then add ice.
  3. Stir until cold; taste to check that the coffee aroma has infused into the drink.
  4. Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.
  5. Optional garnish: half orange wheel, lime twist.

Story

Joaquín Simó's 2009 Negroni with Smith & Cross, a pot-still Jamaican rum, in place of gin, named for the Jamaican capital.