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Banana Split
Submitted by Ste "Knife" ThomasAuthor's Disclaimer:
WARNING. This one is not for the faint of heart or liver, or those with disabilities such as driving licences, student loans or a tendency to get naked when drunk.
Invented by myself (Knife) and Dave Carroll (A colleague, whom some of you know), this drink found it's origins when a guy I know leaned over the bar and said "Give me a cocktail to get me drunk. I don't care what it costs". This is, by the way, a very expensive drink, and retails at over £6 a glass in spoons prices as of november 06.
The result is quite drinkable, very strong, and very effective. This is the up to date recipe, honed to perfection by way of spoons not selling all the original ingredients any more. The bastards. We called it the Banana Split, because fruit sald was taken.
Again, warning. Not for designated drivers, as it contains enough alcohol to see you from sober as a judge to twice the legal driving limit. You have been warned, now on with the fun.
Ingredients:
25ml Wray & Nephew (Overproof white rum)
25ml raspberry sambuca(formerly raspberry vodka, till spoons stopped selling it)
25ml banana sambuca
25ml Archers/Peach schnapps
Orange juice (to fill glass)
Ice to preference.
Sambuca encouraged, but it would probably be fine with different flavoured spirits (cherry brandy for example)
Method
step 1: Don't let your boss see you pouring all these spirits in one glass:
Because they would fire me. Instead, at work, I have to serve this in no less than five seprate glasses.
the sambuca shots use shot glasses, the rum and Archers are given in half pint glasses, each with orange juice.
step 2: The final vessel:
A single pint glass, with ice. More ice=stronger drink (as long as you drink it beofre the ice melts), less ice gives more orange flavour.
step 3: The final mix:
This is important. You can't just throw it together, cause you'll either find it too strong at the top, or like lighter fluid at the bottom. Best advice from me is to pour in the weaker spirit + Mixer (i.e. Archers + Orange), then the sambuca, then the stronger spirit and mixer (Rum). Mix it. Seriously. When you're making a drink that costs this much you don't want something mild that turns undrinkable in the bottom quarter of the glass. I know it sounds meticulous, but I say again, £6 a pint.
step 4: Final touches:
Write a will, add fruit if you're a gay, bottoms up.
Variations:
It would cost more to make unless we swindled the stocks (which is why we're all currently barred, so don't ask me to if I make you it),but we could do it by the pitcher with the same amount of booze and extra orange, perhaps soda, and some fruit. Might give it a nicer touch if it's a little fizzy, I don't know. Any advances or experiences of this will be my pleasure to document, but not my responibility to clean up after.