Day Trippin', now with Batavia arrack
Tasting Notes
Rory: The right amount of sweet, but shaped like a lime. Weird/interesting, because I felt the denizen 3 year rum tasted like a lime, but this feels lime-ier. (Plantation is dosed, right? so maybe that contributes to the effect?)
We thought about how to split the rum by holding all the opened bottles up to the shaker with all the other ingredients and giving it a good sniff. The plantation easily won over the denizen; the batavia smelled right. (We also considered uruapan charanda and rum fire.)
The batavia, I think, is bringing a briney flavor to the drink that makes it a bit more interesting than last time. I think it’s possible 1⁄2oz is a little too much, but maybe not? the suze is less obvious than it was before, but it wasn’t meant to be at the front. I was going to say it complicates the drink to the point where it’s not as easy to drink, except I just realized I’ve finished it, so I’m a liar.
Ryan: In this iteration we wanted to replace the rum with something. We took all our white rums–currently plantation 3 star, denizen white, Batavia arrack, uruapan charanda, and Rum Fire overproof white, and measured out the drink except the rum. We then smelled it with the various components and felt that–surprisingly, in my opinion–the Batavia arrack worked pretty well with the other notes in there. And that the plantation 3 star seemed to work better, with some fruitier notes, than the denizen. So we ended up using 1 1⁄2 oz Plantation 3 star and 1⁄2oz Batavia arrack.
This worked really well! The Batavia has a certain roughness that I feel is a little bit similar to the Suze and to the strawberry. The tasting profiles are pretty different but they all have a certain jittery feel, as if meandering around a certain flavor. In the drink, the Batavia itself is detectible, but mildly, and there’s a lot of interesting smell notes and different flavors seem to come out than in the first iteration; it also feels like it has more depth of flavor, a bit more going on underneath the strawberry. The batavia does seem to dominate the suze a little bit; the suze is definitely there, but it might be contributing a little bit less? If we did it again, we might want to cut the Batavia down just a little bit.
Recipe
- 1 1⁄2 oz Plantation 3 Star White Rum
- 1⁄2 oz Batavia Arrack van Oosten
- 1⁄4 oz Suze
- 1⁄4 oz Small Hands orgeat
- 1⁄2 oz strawberry syrup (see original post)
- 1⁄2 oz lime juice
Shake with ice and strain into a double rocks glass over cube or pebble ice. Garnish with mint and a dehydrated citrus wheel.
Source: Subtle Tiki