Chefs' Recipes

Shore to Shore

Australian Gourmet Traveller cocktail recipe for Shore to Shore by Lobo Plantation in Sydney.
Shore to Shore

Shore to Shore

William Meppem

“It’s a take on the Dark and Stormy,” says Simon Toohey of Lobo Plantation. Toohey says he and fellow Lobo barkeep Jay Gray love medicinal-tasting American-style root beer (not to be confused with ginger beer). “It’s an acquired taste, but if it’s a taste you’ve acquired, you’ll be drinking it all night long.”

Ingredients

Method

Main

1.Fill a tall glass with large ice cubes. Add rum and bitters, top with root beer, garnish with lime, maraschino cherries and mint leaves and serve.

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