File this one under worst cocktail names ever.

My grandmother had this mangy old cat named Tooger. Stark white and always sleeping. When she died, my eccentric uncle David adopted her and brought her up to his place in the island community of South Hero, Vermont.

Anyway, the damn cat lived forever. It was already old as shit but continued to live up at my uncle’s disheveled beach shack. Basically a camp on a cliff overlooking the water. When I say disheveled, I’m not exaggerating. The plumbing would freeze in the winter. To combat that, before he retired, he had a compost toilet installed… A terrifying appliance. Inside the bowl, the solar powered paddle mechanism would churn old turds like ice cream. When I was a Kirby Vacuum salesman I drove up there to do a demonstration and was pulling insane volumes of grime out of the carpet in his living room. Giant white wads of Tooger’s castings.

The damn cat was like a ghost. Appearing through the years sporadically, perched on the roof licking her paws after a kill, sitting in the middle of the woods like a wraith, prompting us to ask, “How the hell is Tooger still alive?” Somehow living through the hellish Vermont cold once my uncle started spending his winters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She had a door to get inside to save herself from the elements but somehow survived below zero temperatures, living on mice and birds.

I’m convinced the cat lives in the shadow realm and now haunts the area.

I googled “Tooger” and only a few relevant hits popped up. Two people on instagram, @tooger_draws, and @tooger. A company called Tooger Logistics in Ontario. I went with “Torger” which is a Norse name but pronounced as it sounds. So another dead end. Every hit on the search brought up “tiger” as if I had misspelled it. So, it’s an actual name, just an unpopular, weird one, just like this cocktail.

Tooger’s Revenge

1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice

1 oz. White Rum

.75 oz. Cachaça

.5 oz. Green Almond Orgeat

.5 oz. Leche de Tigre

.25 oz. Green Chartreuse

.25 oz. Rhum Agricole (110 proof)

One half of a Makrut Lime Leaf

Twist the half Makrut lime leaf with your fingers and place into the tin with all the other ingredients. There’s no need to muddle. Shake vigorously and strain onto a BFR.