Tagged: rumcocktails

Cointreau (orange liqueur) / Daily Mix / Rum

Periodista

The PERIODISTA (means “journalist” in Spanish) is a rum cocktail that starts with a daiquiri base and builds with the never-failing orange liqueur, Cointreau, and apricot liqueur. Some recipes call for a white rum (Banks Five Island or Flor de...

Daily Mix / Rum / Schnapps / Vermouth (sweet & dry)

Corkscrew

The CORKSCREW is a white (light) rum, martini-style cocktail that suits almost any occasion or time of the year. It’s pleasing with a mild peach flavor and is beautifully balanced by dry vermouth. The Corkscrew is similar to a Jean...

Cognac / Brandy / Daily Mix / Lillet / Rum

Culross Cocktail

The CULROSS (“cool-ROSS”) is a medium-sweet rum-based cocktail that suits any season. This blend of white rum, Lillet Blanc, apricot brandy and lemon juice dates back to the 1930’s Savoy Cocktail Book from Harry Craddock. It’s well balanced and easily...

Daily Mix / Rum

Winter Daiquiri

The WINTER DAIQUIRI is a richer, fuller-flavored version of the ever popular classic daiquiri associated with warm weather. This particular recipe from mixologist Eden Laurin of the Chicago bar The Violet Hour substitutes the more common white rum with two...

Daily Mix / Falernum / Rum

Autumn Wind

The AUTUMN WIND is a two-layered Mai Tai variation whose bottom layer combines tequila, falernum and lime juice while black strap rum provides the top-layer floater. Black strap rum provides depth and a rich molasses flavor. The equal parts in...

Cointreau (orange liqueur) / Gin / Rum / Seasonal Sunday

Little Devil

The LITTLE DEVIL has a lemony bite to it, but that’s as devilish as it gets. In fact, my preferred recipe below reduces the lemon in order to allow the other flavors from rum, gin and Cointreau to ascend and...

Daily Mix / Fizzy Friday / Rum / St-Germain (elderflower)

Kew Garden

The KEW GARDEN is a garden-fresh fizzy cocktail mixing the flavors of cucumber, mint, elderflower and lime with blended white rum. The result is a deliciously light thirst-quencher perfect for warm summer days. Though it doesn’t include quite the botanical...

Daily Mix / Liqueurs & mixers / Rum

Carrot Daiquiri

The CARROT DAIQUIRI mixes delicious carrot juice and white rum. But it also has a few things in the mix that might need purchased in advance such as falernum liqueur, mint sprigs and turmeric.  Here’s a daiquiri that has the...

Daily Mix / Orange Juice / Pineapple Juice / Rum

Painkiller

For the record, a PAINKILLER is a Pina Colada-style rum cocktail using Pusser’s Rum only. The “PLAIN KILLER,” featured in the recipe below, tweaks the same by using El Dorado 15-year Rum instead. El Dorado rum is from Guyana and...

Curacao / Daily Mix / Rum

Discovery Bay

The DISCOVERY BAY is a rum, lime & curacao cocktail that produces a citrusy embellishment of your favorite gold rum. Despite the pastoral green color — the result of mixing blue curacao with gold rum —its taste is tart, minimally...