A Furlong Too Late is a crisp two-ingredient highball with light rum and spicy ginger beer. A lemon twist adds aroma while the cold, fizzy build keeps the drink simple and refreshing.
Mixed DrinkTime
2 min
Skill
Easy
Glass
Highball Glass
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A Furlong Too Late is a direct rum highball built from Light Rum and Ginger Beer. The rum provides a clean sugarcane backbone while ginger beer brings spice, sweetness, and carbonation.
Ingredients
Equipment
A 1:3 rum-to-ginger-beer ratio keeps the drink long and refreshing while leaving enough rum character to remain noticeable beneath the spicy mixer.
Fill a Highball Glass with fresh ice.
Pour in the Light Rum.
Add the Ginger Beer and stir gently once or twice.
Express a lemon twist over the glass, add it as garnish, and serve immediately.
Light rum, ginger beer, cold ice, and citrus aroma make A Furlong Too Late an uncomplicated refreshing highball.
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