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"At Boat Drinks Bar in St. Augustine I recount Rob Crabtree’s long search for a Rum Runner he liked: after more than 20 recipe iterations he landed on a carefully layered cocktail built (not shaken) with a base of unaged and dark rums, French blackberry liqueur, banana liqueur, and a precise juice ratio of two parts pineapple to one part orange; he builds it gently because blackberry liqueur can turn muddy and shaking kills the brightness, and Whitney Hobbs stresses that using high-quality liqueurs makes the drink sing." - Carrie Honaker