This is G-R-E-A-T. Right up my alley. Fruity, refreshing, long, and spicy. Yum yum yum yum yum. Minor alterations to the PDT spec to match my stock ingredients:

• 1½ oz Pierre Ferrand 1840 Cognac
• ¼ oz John D Taylor's Velvet Falernum
• 1 oz 3:1 diluted Liber & Co Fiery Ginger Syrup
• ¾ oz fresh lime juice
• ½ oz 2:1 rich simple syrup
• 1 Trader Joe's mini cucumber, sliced
• 6-8 mint leaves

I put ¼ oz of ginger syrup along with ¾ oz cold water in the tin before shaking to mimic the PDT "ginger beer." It worked just fine.

Anyway, instructions:

• muddle mint, cucumber slices (save one for the garnish) and simple syrup in a shaking tin
• add the other ingredients along with a bit of pebble ice and whip shake
• double strain into a collins glass and fill with pebble ice
• garnish with a mint spring speared through the reserved cucumber slice

Did I mention I love this one? Too much of a pain to keep in regular rotation probably, but yum yum yum!