Black Strap

Sometimes called Black Stripe, this drink is a toddy-like mixture of rum, molasses, and hot or cold water that comes from the same seafaring roots at Calibogus (and, indeed, early versions at sea contained spruce ale). Blackstrap was one of the most popular tavern drinks of the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries in rural New England. Our version uses nineteenth-century techniques to revive this forgotten Rum Old-Fashioned ancestor.

INGREDIENTS

2 oz. spiced rum
Scant ½ oz. ginger-molasses syrup
3 drops saline or a tiny pinch of salt

Garnish: lime coin, nutmeg

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ABV LEVEL

Combine rum and syrup in a mixing glass. Fill three-quarters up with ice and stir for 20 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Garnish with an expressed lime coin and freshly grated nutmeg.