The 2009 Official Cocktail of Tales of the Cocktail was served up amid a gentle, passing Louisiana rainstorm last Wednesday as founder Ann Tuennerman kicked off the event outside New Orleans’ Monteleone Hotel.

Ingredients:

2.25 oz. Cruzan Single Barrel Estate Rum

0.5 oz. Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb

0.25 oz. Captain Morgan 100 rum

2 dashes each, Fee Brothers peach and Angostura bitters

8-10 mint leaves

1 Demerara sugar cube

Method:

Muddle sugar, Rhum Clement and bitters in a 10-ounce tall glass. Add mint and press. Add cracked ice, then Cruzan and Captain Morgan; stir. Garnish with a mint sprig.

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