Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch

• 3 or 4 ice cubes, plus crushed ice
• 2 ounces dark rum, preferably Jamaican
• 1 ounce amber rum
• 1/2 ounce aged rum, preferably Barbados
• 1/2 ounce Velvet Falernum (clove-spiced liqueur)
• 2 ounces unsweetened pineapple juice
• 1 ounce fresh lime juice
• Dash of Angostura bitters
• 1/8 teaspoon absinthe, preferably Pernod
• 2 ounces chilled ginger beer
• 2 pineapple wedges and 2 pineapple leaves (optional) skewered on a pick, for garnish

1. Put the ice cubes in a highball glass.
2. Fill a cocktail shaker with crushed ice.
3. Add all of the remaining ingredients to the shaker except the ginger beer and garnishes and shake well.
4. Add the ginger beer to the shaker and pour (don't strain) into the highball glass.
5. Garnish with the skewered pineapple wedges and leaves.

dark rum, amber, aged rum, velvet falernum, pineapple juice, lime juice, bitters, absinthe, ginger beer, pineapple

Taken from www.foodandwine.com/recipes/colonel-beachs-plantation-punch (may not work)