Episode 55: coming 5/13/16
Featuring the cocktail I'm serving at TIki Caliente 8.
Featuring the cocktail I'm serving at TIki Caliente 8.
Joy is well-known in the spirits world as the first female master blender for a major brand, and for her thirty-five year tenure at the company, which she joined as the chief chemist.
Kids, stay in school. Good things can happen.
Suzanne Long of Longitude writes about a recent trip to Martinique and a visit to the grounds of Clément. Make a 'Ti Punch and enjoy.
A tangent I didn't take in the just-released Episode 54 of 5 Minutes of Rum was a brief discussion on the name of the cocktail by Jason Alexander from Tacoma Cabana that I made in the episode - the Golden Shellback. If you're wondering about that name, it comes from the "Crossing the Line" ceremony of many of the world's navies.
"Crossing the Line" refers to one's crossing of the Equator for the first time and is an initiation rite sailors participate in. Those who have already crossed the Equator are referred to as "Shellbacks" while those who have not (yet) are "Pollywogs". A Golden Shellback refers to one who has crossed the Equator at the International Date Line.
Since so much of rum's history is informed by its naval ties, this seems like a fine name for a rum-based cocktail.