Recipe

• 2 oz Pineapple Rum
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• 1 oz Honey Sage Syrup
• 1 bar spoon Mezcal
• Garnish with Lime wheel and fresh cracked black pepper

Add all ingredients except garnishes to a shaker. Add ice and shake. Double strain into a chilled coupe. Add cracked black pepper on top and a lime wheel.

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We now find ourselves in the odd season called “Ordinary Time”. It’s the longest church season of the year and is full of small holy days, but does not have any real over-arching theme. Ordinary Time is a place to apply lessons form the other church seasons. It’s a chance to to infuse the sacred into our everyday “ordinary” life, and add our own spiritual twist on time that would otherwise be the same ol’ thing, day in and day out.

And I wanted to do the same thing in a drink. I wanted to take an “ordinary” drink that everyone knows–in this case, a daiquiri–and infuse some extra soul into it. Just as the church calendar encompasses a huge range of human experience and emotion, this drink tries to bring in a range flavors the create a lovely whole. And I think I did a really good job.

These bits of symbolism are a stretch, I know, but here’s my thought: Honey Sage syrup represents the Advent-Christmas season with it’s dark sweetness; Mezcal brings in the darkness and mystery of Epiphany; Black Pepper is the bite and bitterness of Lent; Lime brings the brightness and pop of Easter, and Pineapple Rum is for Kingdomtide, as it is a spirit borne of colonialism, politics, and the collision of worlds, cultures, and processes.

Ingredient Notes

Nothing really specific here. But I will recommend the best pineapple rum in the world: Plantation’s Stiggins’ Fancy. There’s nothing even close. But still, use what you want. For Mezcal, we use Del Maguey’s Vida Clasico. Use any honey-sage syrup recipe. I encourage fresh lime juice.

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