Casablanca
The CASABLANCA is not a gin drink, as might be expected if referring to Rick’s gin joint in Casablanca. It’s a sweet & sour light rum cocktail with a crisp flavor and icy-white appearance. Its fresh balance is inviting for...
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Hemingway Daiquiri
The HEMINGWAY DAIQUIRI is known for reducing sweetness of the rum by adding the more bitter-tart element of grapefruit juice, cutting out all sugar or simple syrup additives, adding maraschino liqueur and doubling the rum. Bartenders have since added more...
El Presidente
The EL PRESIDENTE is a Manhattan-style cocktail invented in Cuba around 1919. It remains a cocktail classic, even though Cuba’s Mojito and Daiquiri became more famous. The El Presidente is unlike the other Cuban cocktails in that it doesn’t require...
Corkscrew
The CORKSCREW is a martini-style light rum cocktail that suits almost any occasion or time of the year. It’s pleasing with its mild peach flavor, but is beautifully offset and balanced by dry vermouth. It’s similar to a Jean Harlow...
Kingston
The KINGSTON COCKTAIL matches Jamaican rum with coffee liqueur and, as with other Kahlua-type drinks, is especially enjoyable after dinner or on festive occasions. If using a dark Jamaican rum like Myer’s, the rum’s notes of caramel, chocolate and honey...
Culross Cocktail
The CULROSS (“cool-ROSS”) is a medium-sweet rum-based cocktail that suits any season. Its blend of white rum, Lillet Blanc, apricot brandy and lemon juice date back to the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book from Harry Craddock. It’s well balanced and easily...
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...
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 from...
Painkiller (“Plain Killer”)
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 Rum Runner
One of the best ways to enjoy a good aged rum like the El Dorado 15-year is with a simple mix called the CURACAO RUM RUNNER. If you’ve got orange bitters, it’s just a two-ingredient cocktail with no citrus additions....
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