Cocktails

Where To Drink Rum: Trailer Happiness, London

August 9, 2010

This is a guest post written by Peter and Pauline Holland of The Floating Rum Shack. Peter and Pauline are avid rum enthusiasts and great friends of both this site and its humble author. They live in the UK, where they have a much easier time making it down to Trailer Happiness to enjoy what [...]

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Rum Dood Cocktail

July 6, 2010

Rum Dood created by Paul Etter 1.5 oz Smith & Cross .5 oz Cruzan Black Strap .5 oz Lemon Juice .5 oz Lime Juice .5 oz Rothman & Winter Apricot Orchard .25 oz Ginger Syrup .25 oz Falernum Dash Angostura bitters Shake all ingredients with a cup of cracked ice and pour unstrained into a [...]

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Create The Rum Dood Cocktail – A Contest

June 1, 2010

People often ask me if I ever get a big head being “The Rum Dood.” At those times I find myself forced to sit back and reflect on exactly how self-important I’ve become. I have my own business cards. I have my name on cocktail menus of bars that use my falernum. I get invited to speak or judge at events. I even have a signature hat!

What I don’t have though, is something that any website with such a self-important author should have: a signature cocktail.

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Hemingway Daiquiri

May 26, 2010

Hemingway Daiquiri 2 oz White Rum .75 oz Lime Juice 1 tsp Maraschino 1 tsp Grapefruit Juice 1 tsp Sugar Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve frappe. (Download) Daiquiris, Daiquiris everywhere and oh so many to drink. These days there are more Daiquiri “variations” than you can shake a Japanese [...]

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Daiquiri #2

May 20, 2010

Daiquiri #2 2 oz Gold Rum .75 oz Lime Juice 3 Dashes Curacao 1 tsp Orange Juice 1 tsp Sugar Shake with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. The Daiquiri may be THE sacred cow of rum mixology. It is the drink that a rum connoisseur insists be made correctly without any [...]

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Daiquiri

May 17, 2010

Daiquiri 2 oz Rum .75 oz Lime Juice 1 tsp Sugar Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. In the world of rum there are iconic drinks and then there are ICONIC drinks. While most people may not be familiar with the Palmetto or the Twelve Mile Limit, just about everyone [...]

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Mixology Monday: Pain In The Ass Drinks

April 26, 2010

The merry months continue to pass on by in their irresistible march towards a future full of rum and riches for yours truly (that is where we’re headed right? I really hope this isn’t like the time I got on the wrong train and ended up in Oceanside when I meant to go to LA). Of course, such a passing of time inevitably brings us our next Mixology Monday.

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