Cocktail recipe

Queens Park Swizzle

A built cocktail featuring Dark Rum, Lime juice, Simple Syrup.

Queens Park Swizzle cocktail

Ingredients

  • 60 ml Dark Rum
  • 30 ml Lime Juice
  • 22.5 ml Simple Syrup
  • 5 piece Mint Leaves
  • 3 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
  • 2 dash Peychaud's Bitters

Method

  1. Gently muddle the Mint Leaves with the lime juice and syrup in a highball glass.
  2. Add the rum and half-fill with crushed ice.
  3. Rotate a swizzle stick between your palms, or stir briskly with a barspoon, until the glass frosts.
  4. Add more crushed ice and dash the bitters over the surface.
  5. Optional garnish: mint sprig.

Story

From the Queen's Park Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the 1920s. Trader Vic called it 'the most delightful form of anesthesia given out today'.