Pimento dram (or allspice dram, pimento cordial, or allspice liqueur) is a Jamaican

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produced by steeping

allspice Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry (botany), berry of ''Pimenta dioica'', a Canopy (forest), midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, ...

("pimento") berries in rum. The 2021 ''The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails'' states that pimento dram has been an article of commerce since the 1850s, and has a flavor "reminiscient of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg." There are several entries for pimento dram being presented at the International Exhibition of 1862 by the

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, Jamaica.https://www.google.com/books/edition/Descriptive_Catalogue_of_Articles_Exhibi/L3gjDuqglGUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pimento+dram%22&pg=PA12&printsec=frontcover

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{{reflist Herbal liqueurs Jamaican rum Pimenta (genus)