Ruth Bader Ginger

I decided I wanted to toast RBG and figured it needed to be a little sweet, a little spicy, strong, potent and well balanced. And it needed to be classy.
I started contemplating ginger liqueur, lemon liqueur and gin.
Then I googled RBG cocktail and discovered there are already several versions of a Ruth Bader Ginger. All riffs on a dark and stormy.
So, I ended up with:
1.5 ounces dark rum (Kirk and Sweeney 12 year)
1/2 ounce Domaine de Canton
1/2 ounce Citronge
1 ounce lime juice
Splash of cardamom bitters
Shaken with ice, served with a fresh ginger slice and some crystalized ginger in the glass

“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

On how she would like to be remembered:

“Someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has. To do something, as my colleague David Souter would say, outside myself. ‘Cause I’ve gotten much more satisfaction for the things that I’ve done for which I was not paid.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Over a long career on both sides of the bench — as a relentless litigator and an incisive jurist — Justice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we are — and who we can be.

Barack Obama, 9/18/2020