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Planter's Punch
Jamaican rum, lime, sugar, and water, with bitters for backbone. The old one-sour, two-sweet, three-strong, four-weak rhyme, tuned drier.
What's in it
- Jamaican Rum
- Lime Juice
- Rich Simple Syrup
- Chilled water
- Angostura Bitters
- Orange Peel
Jamaican folk punch; in print by 1878. The Myers's rum claim is marketing.
Keep pouring
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Two rums through lime, honey, falernum, and allspice — Morse code for victory, mixed in 1940s Hollywood.
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Three rums, lime, falernum, and Don's secret mix — decoded from a bartender's notebook decades later. Two per customer was the house rule.
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