I thought that a simple Old Fashioned with aged rum and bittersweet chocolate would work. It does. Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Barbancourt 12 yr old Rum 1/4 oz. Chocolate Simple Syrup – see below Orange peel for garnish Directions: Chill an Old Fashioned glass with ice and water Combine all…
The National Drink of Puerto Rico. Think Eggnog with coconut instead of eggs and milk. This recipe is a take on Roberto Berdecia’s from La Factoria, San Jaun, Puerto Rico.
Most of the Rum Manhattan recipes that I read make a cloyingly sweet drink. This Rum Manhattan I crafted I hope you will find is amazingly complex. We used Don Q Vermouth Cask Aged Rum, but any Rum that you enjoy neat will do as well, (maybe better to your…
I think that Flips, in all of their forms, are an interesting type of cocktail. This drink is kind of a grownup eggnog – rich and creamy but not cloyingly sweet, with a bittersweet component which creates an intricate cocktail that speaks rum, coffee and the deep, earthy flavors of…
I love pumpkin and I’ve always been a fan of pumpkin bisque. I like mine to be savory. Save the sweet for the pie! Since I have a more than passing infatuation with rum, I simply looked to combine two of my favorite flavors. I tried this warm, with bourbon…
Good sipping rum, like any good sipping spirit, can make amazing cocktails as long as you’re careful not to bury those subtle qualities. An old fashioned, Manhattan or martini can be a vehicle to express and play with the flavors of fine spirits. This time I’m using Don Q Vermouth…
I really like bitters forward old fashioneds. To me, bitters bring flavor and spice that you aren’t going to find elsewhere. One way to get a lot of bitters into a cocktail without making it, well, too bitter, is to make a syrup with bitters as all or part of…
Well, we have chocolate covered peanuts and chocolate covered espresso beans and chocolate covered everything else so why not chocolate covered rum? I made a chocolate simple syrup with coconut nectar and drinking chocolate. It is really deeply chocolate and very thick. This cocktail has the flavor of rum and coconut but…
It’s Mixology Monday, hosted by Garnish Blog, and the theme is chocolate! I absolutely love it: chocolate and booze are a match made in Heaven! We have three cocktails to offer this month: the Chocolate Manhattan, the Chocolate Covered Rum and the Chocolate Rum Old Fashioned. Chocolate Manhattan I attended…
