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The Drinking Guide
Singapore Sling Fling
The Raconteur with pineapple, cherry and citrus, lifted with soda and finished with pineapple and a cherry.
Ingredients
45 ml Sammy Raconteur
60 ml pineapple juice
15 ml unsweetened tart cherry juice
10 ml fresh orange juice
15 ml fresh lime juice
10 ml cooled rooibos tea
10 ml agave working mix (equal parts; see prep)
30 ml chilled soda water
Glassware: Tall hurricane glass
Ice: Cubed ice for shaking and fresh cubed serving ice
Garnish: One small pineapple wedge and a fresh cherry
Method
Preparation
Rooibos tea: steep 2 g plain rooibos in 60 ml just-boiled water, 30 ml just-boiled water and 10 ml just-boiled water for 5 minutes. Strain, cool and use 10 ml. Agave working mix (equal parts): stir 30 ml Sammy agave with 30 ml water until uniform. Use the measured working mix listed for this drink, not the same measure of neat agave. Juice is unsweetened unless stated. Make fresh for the session, refrigerate promptly and keep chilled until use.
Make the cocktail
1. Fill the glass with fresh cubes.
2. Shake everything except soda with separate ice for 10 seconds.
3. Strain onto the fresh cubes, add soda slowly and lift once with a bar spoon. Add the garnish.
