5 Minutes of Rum episode 73: Brugal Especial Extra Dry, infusing ginger rum, and the Cloak & Stagger cocktail.

Episode links:

Brugal (official)
Brugal Especial Extra Dry (official)
Brugal Especial Extra Dry (Drink Hacker)
Eastside Distilling (formerly Deco Distilling)
Eastside Distilling Below Deck Ginger Rum
OXO Soft Works Large 8” Strainer (Amazon)
OXO Good Grips 2-Cup Angled Measuring Cup (Amazon)
5 Minutes of Rum episode 10 (spiced rum)
5 Minutes of Rum Tiki Oasis 17 sticker offer

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Cloak & Stagger
1 1/2 oz gin (Hendricks)
1 oz house ginger-infused rum (Brugal Especial Extra Dry base)
3/4 oz orange juice (fresh if possible)
3/4 oz honey mix (1:1 honey and hot water)
1/2 oz tawny port (Dow’s Fine Tawny Porto)
Dash of Angostura bitters

Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a piece of ginger candy stuck on a cocktail pick. Or on a sword.

Ginger-infused rum
Peel 2 ounces of fresh ginger and slice it into sticks into sticks. Add to a bottle of column still lightly aged rum (Brugal Especial Extra Dry). Let that sit in a cool dark place for at least 3 days, sampling daily until you achieve your desired level of flavor. Strain the rum, discard the ginger pieces, and rebottle.