1 1⁄2 oz Light rum (White rum, not Jamaican or Agricole)
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Simple syrup (1:1)
1⁄4 oz Fernet Branca
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail coupe.

Notes

Originally made with 2 oz Wray & Nephew which was a bit overwhelming. Splitting it with 3 parts of a solid Daiquiri rum to 1 part Wray & Nephew was my fix. Other funky white overproof Jamaican rums will probably work well too.

History

I was inspired by the banana-Fernet combination from the Lost Horizon and the Banana Toronto (on my blog). The direction that I took it was a Daiquiri with a funky Jamaican white rum in the mix. For a name, I dubbed this one the Tropical Depression as a tribute drink to my co-worker at Drink at the time who was just airlifted off their Caribbean cruise ship after testing positive with Covid (the depression part was that they were locked in a cabin for a day or two before the helicopter became available) in December 2021 during the first Omicron wave.

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Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
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