- 50 ml light rum
- 25 ml cognac
- 25 ml London Dry gin
- 50 ml fresh lemon juice
- 25 ml fresh orange juice
- 15 ml orgeat
- 15 ml oloroso sherry
Shake all the ingredients except the sherry with ice. Strain into a Collins glass full of crushed ice. Float the sherry on top. Garnish with a sprig of mint. Stand well back!.
Popularised by Trader Vic’s, the Fog Cutter, or, as they call it, the Samoan Fog Cutter, was, like Mai Tais, likely created by Donn Beach of Don the Beachcomber Fame in the 1930s.It is not a drink for the faint-hearted. Frankly it’s bloody lethal. At Trader Vic’s there was a two-drink limit. You can see why. Just look at the ingredients, You may say that a Mai Tai is rum-forward; well this is straight-up booze forward.
“Fog Cutter, hell. After two of these you won’t even see the stuff,”
Victor ‘Trader Vic’ Bergeron in his book, The Bartender’s Guide, 1947