# Lost Lake

Paul McGee's modern Chicago tropical classic, balancing funky Jamaican rum and passion fruit with a dry, bittersweet seam of Campari and maraschino.

Strength: 21% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 60 ml [Jamaican rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/jamaican-rum.md) — Use an aged Jamaican rum.
- 22.5 ml [Passion-fruit syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/passion-fruit-syrup.md)
- 22.5 ml [Fresh lime juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lime-juice.md)
- 15 ml [Fresh pineapple juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-pineapple-juice.md)
- 7.5 ml [Luxardo Maraschino](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/luxardo-maraschino.md)
- 7.5 ml [Campari](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/campari.md)

## Glassware

Highball glass

## Garnish

- Pineapple wedge — Cut the wedge into a crescent.

## Method

1. Add all the ingredients and 240 ml crushed ice to a blender.
2. Flash-blend for three seconds.
3. Pour unstrained into a highball glass and add more crushed ice to fill.

## Related drinks

- [Sidewinder’s Fang](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sidewinders-fang.md): Jamaican and Demerara rums sit beneath equal lime, orange, and passion fruit in the Lanai’s long, carbonated cooler, crowned by a snake-like citrus spiral.
- [East 8 Hold-Up](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/east-8-hold-up.md): Kevin Armstrong’s vivid London modern classic balances vodka with Aperol, pineapple, lime, passion fruit, and measured sweetness over ice.
- [Don’s Special Daiquiri](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/dons-special-daiquiri.md): Donn Beach turns the Daiquiri tropical with a Jamaican-led rum split and equal measures of tart lime, vivid passion fruit, and soft honey.
- [Demerara Dry Float](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/demerara-dry-float.md): Lime, passion fruit, maraschino, and aged rum make an unusually tart tropical drink whose overproof black-rum sidecar lets the drinker choose the danger.
- [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.
- [Doctor Funk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/doctor-funk.md): Ester-rich Jamaican rum, two fresh citrus juices, grenadine, absinthe, and soda make an anise-led sparkling cooler with genuine Samoan ancestry and modern tiki force.
- [Mary Pickford](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mary-pickford.md): A tropical rum cocktail balancing sweet pineapple with dry maraschino and a touch of grenadine.
- [Steve’s Rum Barrel](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/steves-rum-barrel.md): Steve Crane’s huge Kon-Tiki barrel balances two full measures of rum against four fresh juices, passion fruit, honey, and precise traces of almond and anise.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/lost-lake
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/lost-lake-5abf0edb.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.thetakeout.com/america-s-best-tiki-bartender-shows-us-how-to-make-his-1798163674/