Mount gay eclipse rum recipes
Mount Gay Eclipse Rum
It&#;s currently awful weather-wise in most of the country, except here in Los Angeles. I&#;m getting snow reports from my family while we skip about in light sweater cover ups. But don&#;t concern, I&#;m sure we&#;ll get another major earthquake  soon to even things out.
Weather really shouldn&#;t be a factor in what you&#;re drinking though. Sure, a pleasant Hot Toddy is fine by the fire, but so is an ostentatious Tiki drink. I&#;d sip that by the heat too. Today&#;s recipe is just that: a Tiki drink to sip regardless of where you&#;re sitting this winter. It&#;s the last in my series I did for the Serious Drinks site on sparkling cocktails. It will also get you hammered if you drink it on an empty stomach, so don&#;t do that.
You&#;ll need a not many days to prep the infusion, but after that, you complete up with some deliciously boozy pineapple chunks and a delightful, bright tropical fruit infused rum. Can&#;t complain about that hanging out in your fridge.
For the Pineapple and Lime Infused Rum:
One medium pineapple, peeled, cored and sliced in 1-inch thick whe
Why Sailors Drink Rum — and 5 Perfect Rum Cocktails
Whiskey, vodka, gin, and tequila dominate the cocktail menus at most urban bars. But spend any time by the ocean, and rum cocktails reign supreme. Why is that?
It all dates assist to the “Age of Discovery,” a period of history when seafaring European explorers discovered the Americas and West Indies, and commerce was dominated by ocean vessels carrying goods and people across the globe.
Rum is distilled from molasses or other sugarcane by products, and its origins are obscure. But large-scale show of rum began in the s in the sugarcane-rich islands of the Caribbean. Smitten sailors soon brought their beloved new energy to Europe and Colonial America, and rum quickly became the most accepted hard liquor in the world.
The treasure affair between sailors and rum continues today. Attend any bigtime sailing event, and you’ll see many of the competitors sporting red hats featuring the logo for Mount Gay Rum. Why? In order to get one of these hats, you have to sail in a professional regatta.
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Mount Gay Rum Punch
“Wha gine on?” As I wove through a Friday late hours crowd on the island of Barbados, I passed friends slapping hands and greeting each other in Barbadian slang. I’d reach to Oistin’s Fish Fry—one of the islands social hubs—along with a good-timing crowd of locals who were kicking off the weekend with freshly caught fish, dancing, and glasses of rum punch.
From neighborhood bars to top restaurants, rum is the Barbados’ defining drink. It’s woven into the island’s history: Founded in , Barbados’ Mount Gay Rum is the oldest existing rum distillery on earth, and it’s why I’d approach to the Caribbean. After driving through a landscape of rolling sugarcane fields, I toured the distillery’s aromatic vats of molasses, polished copper stills, and a vast aging room stacked high with oak barrels. In a whitewashed laboratory, I sipped aged rums that ranged from smoky, Scotch-inspired drinks to bottles that wafted tropical fruit aromas.
Like fine whiskey, the finest rums are worth savoring neat, but some bottles are made for stirring into kind glasses of beach-ready rum pu
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If you&#;re going to get serious about Tiki cocktails you need, in my view anyway, an “anchor” dry gold rum. It doesn&#;t have to be the fanciest rum in the world but needs to simply perform as a base in cocktails that call for multiple rums that the other spirits can fasten onto and still fully express themselves. While it doesn&#;t need to be anything expensive it certainly has to be parch (not sweet), flexible and easily available. A very long time ago I settled on Havana Club Añejo Especial as my anchor gold rum and haven&#;t had much bring about to question that decision until recently. The reasons for re-thinking this being: 1: I&#;m a giant fan of several other Havana Club rums – 3 Años, 7 Años and Seleccion de Maestros – and I&#;m slightly concerned about coming over as a bit of an HC fanboy. This leads me to 2: If I&#;m really truthful HC Añejo Especial isn&#;t nearly as good as those others and while I always describe it as a “rock compact mixer” I&#;d certainly never consider sipping it on it&#;s own. Which is a pity because, if I had, I might h