Name: Attitude Adjustment
Cook time: 2 minutes
Total time: 2 minutes
Yield: Makes 1
Ingredients: ½ oz. simple syrup (1:1); ¼ oz. Green Chartreuse; ¾ oz. lime juice; 1½ oz. Matusalem Clasico Rum; Miller High Life to bottom (and as a side sipper); Lime wheel, to garnish

Rum and lime cocktail with a bottle of beer on the side.

Photo by Zachary James Johnston

I probably had the name “Attitude Adjustment” written in my notebook long before I moved to Chicago. It goes back to the early days of scouring the eGullet and LTH forums, studying Toby Maloney’s builds, methods, and witticisms. His favorite “Attitude Adjustment” was crappy beer and a shot of Matusalem rum or Chartreuse, so the ingredients for this cocktail were all chosen as a “few of my favorite things” for Mr. Maloney. The drink itself is just a daisy like a margarita or a Daisy de Santiago—it isn’t a “beer cocktail,” it’s a daisy with beer in it, like adding Corona to your marg. Definitely a deeper, more brooding, autumnal kind of fizz, like the old-world dark ale punches of antiquity.

This drink calls for a “Collins shake”—tall cocktails have a lot of water content in the glass, so this is a very short shake. Shake just to combine the components and give them a quick chill; let's call it 15 percent of the shake you'd do for a drink served up in a coupe. When it lands in the glass, the drink will mingle with the beer, which immediately smooths out the rough edges.

This recipe was excerpted from 'The Bartender's Manifesto' by Toby Maloney. Buy the full book on Amazon.

Recipe information

Total Time
2 minutes
Yield
Makes 1

Ingredients

½ oz. simple syrup (1:1)

¼ oz. Green Chartreuse

¾ oz. lime juice

1½ oz. Matusalem Clasico Rum

Miller High Life to bottom (and as a side sipper)

Lime wheel, to garnish

Preparation

Step 1
Build in the shaker tin—first the simple syrup, then the lime, Chartreuse, and rum. Taste. Miller High Life is deceptively sweet, so before the cocktail gets strained into your glass, it needs to be on the dry side.
Step 2
Grab your Collins glass and add 4 ice cubes, then bottom with some of the beer; set aside. Add 3 ice cubes to the shaking tin and Collins shake. Taste again. Does it feel a little too hot and boozy right now? That’s okay! It’s going to mingle with the beer, which will stretch out the dilution. Strain into the prepared Collins glass. We serve the beer remaining in the pony bottle alongside the cocktail. Garnish with the lime wheel.

Reprinted with permission from The Bartender’s Manifesto by Toby Maloney, copyright © 2022. Photographs by Zachary James Johnston. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Buy the full book from Penguin Random House or Amazon.