Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Campari
¾ oz. Jamaican rum
½ oz. orange Curaçao
1 oz. fresh lime juice
¾ oz. orgeat
Directions
1
Glass: double Old Fashioned
Garnish: mint sprig
2
Combine ingredients with ice in a shaker and shake to chill. Strain into a glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish.
Notes
“Dram is like a fancy, classic cocktail bar on top of a Brooklyn dive bar,” says New York bartender Jeremy Oertel of this neighborhood haunt. While bartending at the Williamsburg outpost, he threw a party with notable tiki bartender Brian Miller. For the occasion, he wanted to replicate a Mai Tai variation he’d come across that used spicy high-proof Angostura in place of rum. Because Angostura is a pricey ingredient to use in liberal quantities, he substituted Campari for the bitter component and Smith & Cross Jamaican rum to provide a note of heavy funk. The Bitter Mai Tai has since become a Dram classic and one of Oertel’s staple recipes