While rum is the star player in a great many tiki cocktails, gin is an important supporting player. The Saturn is a chance for gin to act as the sole spirit while surrounded by other tiki stalwarts like falernum and orgeat. Passion fruit was a popular tiki cocktail ingredient in the early years of tiki because it was unfamiliar and tasted exotic to most Americans. As it happens, it also pairs well with both gin and rum. Its distinct fruity flavor can hold its own against the other strong flavors in a tiki mug to create a balanced drink. The Saturn is an excellent example of this. The many flavors in the glass come together to form something altogether different and amazing: sweet and tart, familiar and novel. A lesser person would say that the Saturn is out of this world, but there will be none of that here.
Recipe
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz passion fruit syrup
0.5 oz velvet falernum
0.5 oz orgeat
-shake with 1 cup pebble ice. Dump into double old fashioned glass. Top with pebble ice.
-optional: garnish with cocktail cherry speared between two citrus peel rings.
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