Daiquiri / Rum Sour

Rum Runner

3 min.Light Rum

Add the lime juice to the shaker.
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Add the sugar to the shaker.
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Stir or briefly muddle the lime juice and sugar in the shaker until the sugar begins to dissolve.
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Add the pineapple juice to the shaker.
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Add the Peychaud's bitters to the shaker.
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Add the light rum to the shaker.
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Fill the shaker with ice.
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Shake hard until well chilled.
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Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and serve immediately.
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New Orleans, USA
Origin
The Rum Runner first appears in Stanley Clisby Arthur's Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'Em (1937) as a straightforward New Orleans rum sour rather than the later tiki-style fruit bomb. Arthur's version combines a daiquiri-like core of rum, lime, and sugar with pineapple juice and local Peychaud's bitters, shaken and served up in a small cocktail glass. This is the earliest documented cocktail called Rum Runner and predates the Florida Keys tiki version by more than three decades.
History
Despite sharing the same name, this 1937 Rum Runner is a light, balanced sour and not related in composition to the modern Florida tiki Rum Runner with banana and blackberry liqueurs. Peychaud's bitters, created in New Orleans, give this drink a distinct local character and a gentle anise-tinged bitterness. The structure closely follows classic daiquiri proportions, simply extended with pineapple juice to make the drink more tropical and approachable for visitors. Later resort and tiki versions of the Rum Runner, created in the Florida Keys in the 1970s, helped popularize the name but largely obscured Arthur's original New Orleans recipe.
Trivia
Creole and Cajun dishes, Grilled seafood, Light appetizers, Tropical fruit desserts
Pairings
Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'Em
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