Strategic Nap

Name: Strategic Nap
Ingredients: 1 oz Aged Rum; 0.75 oz Any Smokey Whiskey*; 0.25 oz Smith & Cross Jamaica Rum; 0.75 oz Hemp Tea Syrup (Barefoot Botanicals); 0.5 oz Lime Juice; 0.5 oz Key Lime Juice; 6 dash(es) The Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Bitters; 4 drop(s) 20% Saline Solution

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By Rachel

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Submitted on: May 20, 2022

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The way our weekday call schedule works: you get to the hospital around 5:45 to get started in the OR, and then get relieved at 1pm, go home for a bit, and come back to the hospital at 6pm until 7am the next morning. The expectation is that we take a nap within that 1-6pm window to be awake enough for the evening. When logging our work hours, there’s a drop-down option we have to click that says “strategic nap” to explain those weird hours. I tend to get about an hour of solid napping in, ...

Ingredients

1 oz
Aged Rum

0.75 oz
Any Smokey Whiskey*

0.25 oz
Smith & Cross Jamaica Rum

0.75 oz
Hemp Tea Syrup (Barefoot Botanicals)

0.5 oz
Lime Juice

0.5 oz
Key Lime Juice

6 dash(es)
The Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Bitters

4 drop(s)
20% Saline Solution

Instructions

Garnish

mint sprig and lime

Build

Shake & Strain

Glass

Hurricane

Estimated strength

About 18% ABV (estimate)

By Rachel

Resident Mixologist

Anesthesiology resident physician, amateur cocktail recipe developer-photographer!

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Shake everything with ice and strain into a glass with fresh pebble ice. Garnish with mint and lime and serve with a straw. *I used Swear Jar Canadian whiskey that I had “aged” for three weeks with a Splitrailz stick. Personally, I don’t feel like Splitrailz really make liquors taste expensive and “aged” like the company says, but I they do add a unique oaky/spicy taste to whatever you put them in, so I think they’re still a useful tool.

Editor's Note

A smoky, high-funk rum base meets earthy hemp syrup in this complex tiki-style sipper. The saline solution and Jerry Thomas bitters provide a savory, structural backbone.