One twist that takes the cocktail to an entirely different plane is swapping out the usual lean and botanical gin in favor of a notoriously flavorful and funky overproof Jamaican rum, which is what Joaquín Simó, bartender and partner in New York City bar Pouring Ribbons, did when he first made the drink in 2010.

“I can’t explain what possessed me, but within five minutes of importer Eric Seed handing me a bottle of Smith & Cross for the very first time, I had created this drink,” says Simó. “It’s certainly not the most imaginative thing I’ve ever done—I simply ‘Mr. Potato Headed’ rum for gin in a classic Negroni spec—but it still strikes me as strange that the first thought I had when smelling and tasting a huge, funky, estery, hogo-reeking, grilled banana bread, smoking allspice-branches-laden brute of an overproof Jamaican rum was wondering how it would work in a stirred aperitivo.”

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https://www.liquor.com/kingston-negroni-cocktail-recipe-5222685