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What was the recipe for the cocktail "Elwha on the Rocks?"

In 1983 the Captain of the Washington State Ferry Elwha got drunk and invited a woman into the wheelhouse. He then proceeded to take the ferry off course to show her a view of her house from the water, and summarily ran the ferry aground off Orcas Island causing $250,000 in damage. To commemorate the Captain's jackassery, bars in the San Juans and around the region started serving a drink called the "Elwha on the Rocks." They even wrote a song about it:

 My question is this: Does anybody remember what was in the "Elwha on the Rocks" cocktail? I was born in 1983, the year this all went down, so I'm too young to have quaffed one back then. But if anybody was hanging out at Herb's Tavern in Friday Harbor or any other bar around Puget Sound where they were slinging these bad boys in the '80s and can tell me how to make one, I'd be much obliged. 

 

 

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    Elwha on the Rocks

    Equal parts of Myers's Rum Cream and Myers's Rum over ice.

    Wbowie answered in Alcohol 3 months ago | Report
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