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Highball · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Rusty Ike

Daly's Rusty Ike is a lime-and-ginger-ale long drink built on Medford or New England rum.

citrus · spice · oaky · refreshing · refreshing · casual

Served in Rickey glass. Ice: 1 or 2 small lumps.

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Variants (2)

Daly's Bartenders' Encyclopedia by Tim Daly (1903, p.65)

1 limelime juice — Squeeze the juice of one whole lime into the glass.base
1 wine glassrum — Medford or New England rumbase
ginger ale — Fill the glass.dilution
1 small lumpice — Source says one or two small lumps.other
  1. Squeeze the juice of one whole lime into a rickey glass and add the ice and rum.
  2. Fill with ginger ale and serve with a small barspoon.

Ice: 1 or 2 small lumps

This is a useful regional-rum long-drink checkpoint in the rickey/highball borderland.

The build borrows rickey citrus logic but lengthens with ginger ale rather than seltzer.

The Reminder by Jacob A. Didier (1909, p.125) — Didier 1909

1 whole limeLime juice (fresh) — lime juicebase
1 drinkNew England rum base
ginger ale — ginger aledilution
1 lumpice — iceother
  1. Build in a Rickey glass with the lime juice, ice, and New England rum.
  2. Fill with ginger ale and serve with a spoon.

Ice: 1 lump

This is a useful highball-era checkpoint because it maps the Rickey/ginger-ale logic onto a regional rum base rather than whiskey or Scotch.

See also: Mamie Taylor, Roman Highball