Taste This for the New Year! A “Hair of the Dog” Flip Cocktail from SRO (Standing Room Only)

Taste This host Leslie joins bar manager Aaron Kelley at SRO (Standing Room Only) to taste his version of a Flip cocktail. Curious about where the expression "hair of the dog" comes from? Leslie explains.

Recipe: SRO Flip cocktail

Makes one cocktail

Ingredients:
• 2 ounce white rum
• ½ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• ¼ ounce St Elizabeth Allspice Dram (also known as Pimento Dram) liquor
• ¾ ounce freshly brewed African nectar tea
• 1 whole egg
• 1 leaf of white sage

Instructions:
1. Combine the rum, lemon juice, Allspice Dram, tea and whole egg with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into another cocktail shaker without any ice and shake.
2. Set the sage leaf on a fireproof surface and light with a match or torch. Invert a glass over the sage to catch all of the essential oils from the smoke.
3. Strain the Flip into the smoke filled glass. Serve immediately.

SRO bar manager Aaron Kelley explains the process of magical cocktail making at SRO.