Treacle
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
, a stirred rum cocktail with an apple juice float, was created by the British bartender Dick Bradsell at London’s Flamingo Bar in the late 1990s. The name refers to the caramelized flavor produced by combining apple juice with the rich molasses notes of a dark Jamaican pot-still rum.
According to colleagues, Bradsell was frequently irked by those who insisted on using pressed or cloudy apple juice to make this drink, since he maintained that only clear apple juice, from concentrate, would achieve the desired “treacly” flavor. The drink’s success also depends on the use of an aged pot-still rum, preferably one from Jamaica.
*Recipe: Stir 25 ml dark rum with 5 ml sugar syrup, 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, and two ice cubes in a rocks glass, before adding another 25 ml dark rum, two more ice cubes, and stirring again. Top glass with ice and finish with an apple juice float and a lemon twist.
“Our Favourite Bartenders: Dick Bradsell.” The Cocktail Lovers, November 11, 2013. https://thecocktaillovers.com/our-favourite-bartenders-dick-bradsell/ (accessed April 7, 2021).
By: Alice Lascelles
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The Caribe Hilton’s original Piña Colada—the tourist drink of all tourist drinks—as recreated by Annene Kay. Source: Courtesy of Annene Kay.*
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).