Episode 33: Stroh

5 Minutes of Rum episode 33: Stroh 80, Frankie’s Tiki Room, Liquid Vacation and the Five-O Fireball.

A Moai that once stood guard outside of the Stardust in Las Vegas. 

Five-0 Fireball

1 oz Lemon Hart 151
1 oz Myers’s Dark rum (Coruba)
1/2 oz Appleton Special Gold rum (Appleton V/X)
3/4 oz Chambord
1/2 oz Cointreau (Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao)
1/2 oz vanilla syrup
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
Dash of orange bitters (Fee’s)
2 oz club soda
1 oz 7Up (Sprite)
1/2 oz Stroh 80
1 Sugar cube

Soak the sugar cube in the Stroh rum; set aside. Combine all remaining ingredients in a hurricane glass filled with ice. Pour into a cocktail shaker, and back into the hurricane glass without shaking. Pour the Stroh on top of the cocktail, placing the sugar cube on top (use some tongs). Light the sugar cube, admire the flame, and then extinguish the flame by dunking the cube into the cocktail with a spoon. 

Episode 32: Mount Gay Eclipse

5 Minutes of Rum episode 32: Mount Gay Eclipse, vanilla syrup, substitutions, the Nui Nui, and the Coco Nui.

Newest label (as of 2014)

2nd newest label (as of 2014)

Vanilla syrup

Nui Nui

Nui Nui, garnish detail

Coco Nui (trust me, it's in there)

Nui Nui
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz fresh orange juice
1/4 oz cinnamon syrup
1/4 oz Don’s Spices (#2)*
2 oz amber Virgin Islands rum (substitute Mount Gay Eclipse)
1 dash Angostura bitters
4 oz crushed ice

Combine in the mixing cup of a spindle blender, adding the ice last. Blend for 5 seconds and pour into a tall glass. Add more crushed ice to fill. Garnish with a long, spiral-cut orange peel.

*equal parts vanilla syrup and pimento/allspice dram

Coco Nui
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz fresh orange juice
1/4 oz vanilla syrup
1/4 oz pimento dram
2 oz Koloa coconut rum
1 dash chocolate bitters
1/4 oz simple syrup
4 oz crushed ice

Combine in the mixing cup of a spindle blender, adding the ice last. Blend for 5 seconds and pour into a small coconut mug. Add more crushed ice to fill. Garnish with a long, spiral-cut orange peel.

Episode 31: Saint James Royal Ambre

5 Minutes of Rum episode 31: Saint James Royal Ambre Rhum, Don’s mix, Donga Punch, and Saint-Pierre Punch.

Donga Punch
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
1 1/2 oz Don’s mix
1 1/2 oz aged Martinique rhum (Saint James Royal Ambre) 


Shake in a Boston shaker half filled with crushed ice. Pour into a Collins glass or Donn Beach mug. Add additional crushed ice to fill.


Saint-Pierre Punch
1 1/2 oz Aged Martinique rhum (Saint James Royal Ambre)
1/2 oz orgeat
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz Don’s mix
Dash of bitters


Shake in a Boston shaker with ice cubes and pour unstrained into a double old-fashioned glass or a small tiki mug. Garnish with a lime wedge.