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With its warm, mellow and oaky flavour profile, Lost Years Arribada is always a great choice for a rum old fashioned and you'll already find a number of recipes for this classic here in our cocktail archive.   

This new one is something special though - a banana rum old fashioned!  A bold drink which balances the bitterness of orange with tropical banana, naturally sweet cask aged rum and sugar to taste, it's heaven in a glass.   

 

• 60ml Lost Years Arribada
• 5-10ml Banana & cacao syrup (see below) 
• 2 dashes angostura bitters
• 2 dashes orange bitters

• 1 banana, sliced (frozen works well)
• Heaped teaspoon cacao nibs
• 200g Granulated sugar
• 150ml Water

• First, make up the syrup - heat ingredients until dissolved, simmer gently for 10 minutes, leave to cool. 
• Fill a mixing glass with ice and add all the ingredients.  Stir for five seconds and strain into an old fashioned or rocks glass, over a single large ice cube or sphere.
• Twist orange peel over the drink to express the citrus oils and stuck into the glass. 
• Sit back and enjoy.