Note of Traveller

We lately cruised to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (story on that coming later) thence does that count at our fifth Caribbean Area island? Technically, no, I gauge exactly unopen enough. I got a duet of bottles of rum inwards the duty shop, who promptly messed upwards my order, exactly it gave me an excuse to gain about other Cocktail Hour sense of savor off alongside Tim. Watch the Video! In this corner, our command rum, is Captain Morgan Spiced Rum.  Good rum, fairly inexpensive in addition to common, it volition last the criterion for sense of savor against the other three. It's slightly vanilla spice notes aid polish the harshness of the mass-produced beverage. Next it Royal Jamaican rum. Aged x years in addition to using entirely Jamaican produced molasses from Jamaican grown saccharide cane, Tim in addition to I both are a flake surprised at how harsh this pricey bottle is. Moving on, it's Captain Morgan's Private Stock, a clear cutting to a higher h...

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Infrogmation of New Orleans nether CC-BY license Punches are a degree of cocktails that mix v or to a greater extent than ingredients together to brand a fruity, refreshing drinkable for a hot day.  It seems that the bulk of punches run rum every bit an alcoholic base. Our punch today is inwards this tradition.  Using rum, limeade, lime juice, elementary syrup, as well as amaretto for that Mediterranean flavor. Watch the Video! Here is the recipe, for i drink: 1 1/2 oz. rum 1/2 oz. amaretto 1 oz. fresh squeezed lime juice 1 oz. elementary syrup limeade In a highball glass, 2/3 filled amongst crushed ice, pour all ingredients except limeade.  Fill to transcend amongst limeade as well as stir. Cheers! -Darryl

A classic drinkable from the Prohibition era, the Bolo. Watch the Video! Here is the recipe... INGREDIENTS (Two Drinks): 3 oz. low-cal rum 1 oz. lime juice 2 oz. orangish juice 4 dashes of bitters Put all ingredients into a cocktail shaker one-half amount of ice. Shake in addition to strain into ii cocktail glasses. Cheers! Darryl

...redrum...RedRuM...REDRUM... OK, lilliputian Danny Torrance...calm down. It's non murder to brand 1 of these together with they sense of savour oh.so.good. Watch The Video! This calendar week on the Cocktail Hour it's my Redrum, which is...not murder...but a carmine rum drink. Here is the recipe... INGREDIENTS (two drinks): 3 oz. nighttime rum 1 oz. Grand Marnier or orangish liquer juice of 1 lime splash of grenadine 4 oz. cranberry cocktail Put all ingredients into cocktail shaker 1/2 filled alongside ice, mix, together with strain into 2 highball spectacles filled alongside ice. Cheers! -Darryl

Ralf Roletschek /  roletschek.at And straightaway for something completely different... This calendar week we're trying a novel cocktail, 1 I've never mixed earlier and, until recently, never fifty-fifty heard of.  The caipirinha is the national drinkable of Brazil.  It's similar to a daiquiri, exactly uses cachaca...which nosotros know amend every bit aguardient...instead of rum.  It's likewise similar to a mojito inward that you lot muddle some ingredients, exactly uses lime instead of mint.  Think of it every bit the offspring of a daiquiri in addition to a mojito if you lot will. It's real tasty in addition to refreshing amongst a slight licorice sense of savour to it.  Also, it's depression inward calories at around 145 calories per drink. INGREDIENTS 4 minor limes Juice of 1 medium lime 1 1/2 oz. aguardiente 1 tbsp. saccharide or 1 oz. unproblematic syrup Cut the minor limes inward quarters in addition to pose into cocktail shaker....

A kickoff for the Cocktail Hour today...our kickoff frozen drink!   When i goes on a tropical beach vacation, i gets a tropical sip - in all probability frozen and preferably blue for some reason. Watch the video! Today's recipe fits that bill. It's a sip that nosotros flora on our recent trip to the Dominican Republic in addition to seems to hold upward a specialty of the Riu chain of hotels.  It's called the Blue Coral. On arrival dorsum home, nosotros decided to encounter if nosotros could brand this drink. No recipe mass or online site had a recipe, in addition to thus nosotros had to fly it. I mean value nosotros got it. Watch the video inwards a higher identify to encounter our attempt. It's close a blooper reel...pretty amazing nosotros were able to consummate this amongst everything going incorrect approximately us during the shoot. Here's the recipe... INGREDIENTS (two drinks) 2 oz. nighttime rum 1.5 oz. bluish curacao 3 oz. ...