Still exploring and enjoying tiki way too much, tonight's cocktail is the Jet Pilot. My ingredients:
1/2oz lime
1/2oz grapefruit
1/2oz cinnamon syrup
1/2oz falernum (local distillery liqueur)
1oz dark Jamaican rum (for this one I went with a blend: 1/4 oz Plantation Dark, 1/4 oz Appleton 12 yr, 1/4 oz Myers Dark, 1/4 oz Plantation Xaymaca)
3/4oz aged Purerto Rican rum (Ron Del Barrilito 3 Star Rum, but Bacardi 8 is also top notch)
3/4oz 151 Demerara rum (Plantation OFTD is what I have)
2 dashes pernstura (50/50 mix of Herbsaint liqueur (could also use Pernod or absinthe) & Angostura bitters, ie 6ish drops of each done by sight)
12oz crushed ice + 3 cubes, since I don't have a stand mixer I shake it like hell and pour the ice into the glass from the shaker and add a bit more crushed ice (it's fun to use a mallet and Lewis bag to get the ice just right). But ideally, flash blend with drink mixer pour into tiki mug, add crushed ice to fill. I garnished with homegrown mint and some Traverse City, MI cherries. OMG my mood is cured.
Crap I forgot, since I have it, I added about 1/3 oz of fassionala syrup from Cocktail and Sons. Fassionola is a lost cocktail syrup that is insanely good for old fashioneds and many other cocktails. And ice cream!