The Patriot

3 oz White Rum

0.5 oz Blue Curaçao

0.25 oz Falernum

0.5 oz Lemon Juice

4 dashes Peychaud's Bitters

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Start with half the rum (1.5 oz) and the blue curaçao (0.5 oz). Mix into a tin with 4-5 cubes of ice.

Give that a really good shake. Pour mixture with light strain into a tumbler or old fashioned glass.

Rinse out your shaker. You want to clean out any left over blue.

Add an additional 4 or 5 cubes of ice. Add remaining rum (1.5 oz) and the Falernum and Lemon Juice. Note: don’t add the bitters yet. Mix in shaker vigourously. You want it to foam a little.

Genlty add a few ice cubes to the glass.

With a spoon, float the mix over the blue base of the cocktail to get that nice layering.

As a last step, add our red accent by splashing the dashes of bitters on the top. Lightly stir the top cubes of ice to diffuse the bitters in without disturbing the already floated layers of the drink.

Enjoy!