Episode 25: Plantation 3 Stars

5 Minutes of Rum episode 25: Plantation 3 Stars white rum and the Admiral’s Grog

The Admiral's Grog

1 oz Plantation 3 Stars rum (white caribbean rum)
1 oz Plantation Original Dark rum (dark caribbean rum)
1 oz El Dorado 8 (Demerara rum)
1 oz honey mix (50-50 mix of honey and water)
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
3/4 oz fresh white grapefruit juice*
3/4 oz black tea
1/4 oz pimento dram

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice cubes. Strain into a double old-fashioned glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with mint and a spent lime shell. Optionally, augment with a sugar stick. Raise your glass and toast to absent friends.

* If you don't have a fresh white grapefruit to juice, use bottled or canned unsweetened white grapefruit juice and add a dash of grapefruit bitters.

Episode 24: El Dorado 8

5 Minutes of Rum episode 24: El Dorado 8, spindle mixers and The Sea of Cinn.

Sea of Cinn
2 oz Demerara rum (El Dorado 8)
1 oz lime juice
1/2 oz cinnamon syrup
1/2 oz honey mix
1/2 oz Lemon Hart 151
Combine all ingredients with 1 cup of crushed ice and blend in a spindle mixer for 5 seconds. Pour unstrained into a tiki mug or double old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a swizzle stick.

Episode 23: Ron Zacapa 23

5 Minutes of Rum episode 23: Zacapa 23, Bittermens Mole bitters, and a Three-Rum Old Fashioned.

Three-Rum Old Fashioned

1 ounce Appleton Estate Reserve rum (Appleton 12 here)
1/2 ounce Ron Zacapa 23
1/2 ounce Smith and Cross rum
1 teaspoon rich demerara syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 dash Bittermen's Mole bitters
Fill a mixing glass 1/2 - 2/3 full with ice. Add the rum, demerara syrup, and both bitters. Stir with a bar spoon until very cold - about 30 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass with either fresh ice cubes, or 1 large ice cube. Garnish with an orange peel. 

In this episode I made a a variant using 1 ounce of Zacapa 23 and 1/2 ounce of Appleton 12. Recommended.