# Art of Choke

Cynar and rum absorb lime, rich demerara, bitters, and muddled mint in a stirred drink whose fresh ingredients behave nothing like a conventional sour.

Strength: 28% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 30 ml [White rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/white-rum.md) — Use a clean, neutral white rum.
- 30 ml [Cynar](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cynar.md)
- 7.5 ml [Green Chartreuse](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/green-chartreuse.md)
- 3.75 ml [Fresh lime juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lime-juice.md)
- 3.75 ml [Demerara syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/demerara-syrup.md) — Use a rich syrup made with two parts demerara sugar to one part water.
- 2 dashes [Angostura bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/angostura-bitters.md)
- 2 sprigs [Mint](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/mint.md) — Use two fresh sprigs inside the drink.

## Glassware

Rocks glass

## Garnish

- Mint sprig — Clap the mint gently before placing it in the drink.

## Method

1. Add all ingredients to a mixing glass, gently muddle the mint, and leave it to steep for 30 seconds.
2. Add cubed ice and stir until thoroughly chilled and diluted.
3. Strain into a chilled rocks glass over one large clear cube.

## Related drinks

- [Bywater](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bywater.md): Chris Hannah’s current New Orleans rum-Brooklyn branch joins aged rum to Averna, green alpine herbs, falernum, and two aromatic bitters.
- [Too Soon?](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/too-soon.md): A regal shake with thin orange slices gives this gin-and-Cynar sour fragrant peel oils and soft fruit depth without muddling bitterness into the drink.
- [Cynar Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/cynar-julep.md): This Buenos Aires modern classic makes Cynar the base of a cooling crushed-ice drink with mint, lemon, and bittersweet grapefruit soda.
- [Love & Murder](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/love-and-murder.md): Equal Campari, green alpine liqueur, and lime form an audacious bitter sour, with syrup and four saline drops making the apparent collision cohere.
- [Mammoth Tusk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mammoth-tusk.md): Blanc agricole, green alpine liqueur, tropical fruit, almond, and falernum form a huge modern tiki sour under a vivid Peychaud’s float.
- [Bitter Giuseppe](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bitter-giuseppe.md): Stephen Cole's low-proof modern classic makes earthy Cynar the base, lengthened with sweet vermouth and sharpened by lemon and orange bitters.
- [100-Year-Old Cigar](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/100-year-old-cigar.md): Aged rum becomes a dark after-dinner drink under Cynar, Bénédictine, peat, bitters, and the lingering aroma of an absinthe-rinsed glass.
- [Industry Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/industry-sour.md): Ted Kilgore's equal-parts modern classic turns Fernet-Branca and Green Chartreuse into a bracing, improbably balanced herbal sour.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/art-of-choke
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/art-of-choke-5c96e968.webp
- Recipe source: https://shows.acast.com/cocktail-college/episodes/the-art-of-choke