(and) Knobs is Thirteen

Cribbage is the main card game we play in the Monkey Hut. The math and permutations of scoring your hand in combination with the jargon and language had me hooked from childhood: It’s a family game tradition. You score “knobs” when a Jack in your hand matches the suit of the turn-up card (which everyone shares in their hand when they score).

Here, you’ll find that the hand [two Jacks, two 5s, with our Jack of Hearts matching the turn-up] scores 13. “Fifteen-two, Fifteen-four, Fifteen-six, Fifteen-eight, Pair is ten, Pair is twelve,”

(and) Knobs is Thirteen
¼ oz. vanilla syrup
¼ oz. pimento dram
½ oz. cinnamon syrup
¾ oz. lemon juice
1¼ oz. orange juice
1½ oz. Knob Creek bourbon
½ oz. Plantation OFTD
dash bitters
8 drops Herbsaint

flash blend with 6 ounces of crushed ice and dump into double rocks bucket. Garnish with orange wheel and spanked mint.

This recipe is a riff on Jason Alexander’s process of using the fibonacci sequence as a guide for ratios. My syrup is half-sweeter, so I move that around in the order, and use the units a bit differently. (Sweets) Sour Weak (Strongs). The units are in ¼ ounce, rendering the recipe list as [1:1:2]:3:5:8. Of course, the next number in that sequence? 13. Don’t give a Bronx cheer – this is the fix for that old [drink’s]problem.