Episode 68: Bacardi 8

5 Minutes of Rum episode 68: Bacardi 8 and a trio of cocktails.

Episode links:

Bacardi Limited (official)
Bacardi 8
Brother p-touch label maker
Smuggler’s Cove (book)
Sippin’ Safari
Beachbum Berry Remixed
5 Minutes of Rum episode 7 (Mai Tai)
5 Minutes of Rum episode 27 (ginger syrup)

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Queen’s Road Cocktail
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz orange juice
1/2 oz honey mix
1 1/2 oz gold Puerto Rican/column still aged rum (Bacardi 8)
1/2 tsp ginger syrup
Dash angostura bitters

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake with ice cubes. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Q.B. Cooler
1 oz orange juice
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz honey mix
1/4 oz falernum
1 oz soda water
1 oz gold Jamaican rum (Appleton Signature)
1 oz light Puerto Rican/column still rum (Bacardi 8, so column still aged rum)
1/2 oz Demarara rum (Hamilton 86)
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1/2 tsp ginger syrup
8 oz crushed ice

Combine all ingredients in a mixing cup. Mix with a spindle blender for 5 seconds and pour unstrained into a double old-fashioned glass. Garnish with plenty of mint sprigs.


The Arcane
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
3/4 oz ginger syrup
1/4 oz simple syrup
2 oz column still aged rum (Bacardi 8)
2 dashed Angosture orange bitters
8 oz crushed ice

Combine all ingredients in a mixing cup. Mix with a spindle blender for 5 seconds and pour unstrained into a collins glass. Alternately, build with crushed ice in a collins class and swizzle until the glass frosts over. Garnish with a piece of candied ginger on a cocktail pick.

Episode 67: Lost Spirits Navy Style rum

5 Minutes of Rum episode 67: Lost Spirits Navy Style rum, follow-up on Clément Rhum Agricole Vieux, and 2 cocktails: Grog and Bombo.

A Grog, as you do.

Bombo in a Vantiki skull sippy cup.

Grog (from And A Bottle Of Rum)
Pour 2 ounces of rum into an 8 ounce glass and then fill with water. Add a bit of fresh lime juice and / or a bit of brown sugar to taste.

Grog (Smuggler’s Cove version)
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz demerara syrup
2 oz rum (Lost Spirits Navy Style rum 61)
Combine in a shaker tin with cracked or cube ice. Shake and strain into an old fashioned glass with fresh ice.


Bombo
Bombo (from And A Bottle Of Rum)
In a small glass, pour 2 ounces of rum and 2 oz water. Add a half teaspoon of molasses and stir. Dust with freshly grated nutmeg.

Bombo (Smuggler’s Cove version)
1/4 oz demerara syrup
2 oz blended aged rum (Lost Spirits Navy Style rum 61)
Stir the rum and syrup in a mixing glass with ice. Strain into an old-fashioned glass with fresh ice. Dust with freshly grated nutmeg. 
 

Episode 66: Stiggins’ Fancy Plantation Pineapple

5 Minutes of Rum episode 66: Stiggins’ Fancy Plantation Pineapple, juicing a pineapple (revisited), a pineapple daiquiri, and the Pineapple Express.

The Desert Oasis Room.

The Desert Oasis Room.

The Desert Oasis Room.

The Pineapple Express

Adrian Inside the Desert Oasis Room

Kevin and Adrian Inside the Desert Oasis Room.

Pineapple Daiquiri
2 oz Stiggins’ Fancy Plantation Pineapple rum
1 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz fresh lime juice

Fill a coupe of cocktail glass with ice and set aside to chill the glass. Al all ingredients to a shaking tin and shake with ice cubes. Discard the ice from the coupe glass and strain into that chilled coupe glass.


Pineapple Express
3/4 oz pineapple juice (fresh if at all possible)
1/2 oz fresh white grapefruit juice
1/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz falernum
1/2 oz honey mix
1 oz Plantation Dark rum
3/4 oz Stiggins’ Fancy Plantation Pineapple rum
3/4 oz Plantation O.F.T.D. rum
1 dash Bittermens ‘Elemakule Tiki Bitters

Flash blend with 12 oz crushed ice. Pour unstrained into a tiki mug or double old-fashioned glass. Garnish with pineapple leaves and a pineapple chunk on a bamboo skewer or pick.

No tiki bitters? No problem - omit them and you’ll have an even more pineapple-forward, slightly less complex cocktail.