Pisco Punch
San Francisco's legendary lost cocktail—pisco elevated with pineapple gum syrup and citrus, once called "a whisper of the gods."
- 2 ozpisco
- ¾ ozpineapple gum syrup(or pineapple syrup)
- ¾ ozfresh lemon juice
- ½ ozwater(distilled preferred)
- Pineapple slicegarnish
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Created at the Bank Exchange Saloon in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush era. The original recipe by Duncan Nicol became so famous that visitors traveled from around the world to taste it, with writer Rudyard Kipling reportedly calling it "compounded of the shavings of cherub's wings, the glory of a tropical dawn." The secret recipe was lost when Prohibition shuttered the bar in 1919, though modern reconstructions capture its essential character.
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