Articles Tagged Rum Cocktails

Happy Hot Buttered Rum Day

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File this under the I-can’t-believe-this-is-a-real-holiday-but-I’m-sure-glad-it-is category. January 17th marks Hot Buttered Rum Day, and as with all drinking holidays, we’re happy to partake. Hot Buttered Rum is one of our favorite seasonal drinks and is a nice change-of-pace from egg…

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Dark and Stormy

Dark and Stormy

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The Dark and Stormy cocktail is an easy-to-make, refreshing drink that combines dark rum with ginger beer and lime juice. The preferred rum in a Dark and Stormy, mostly due to heavy marketing, is Gosling’s Black Seal Rum. It makes…

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Daiquiri Recipe

Daiquiri Recipe

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The Daiquiri is a cocktail I often come back to when I find myself in a cocktail rut. It’s simple, well-balanced and a great representative of how different rums can create many different variations of the same drink. Many drinkers…

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Christmas Cocktails

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Mash together stressed parents, fighting siblings and judgmental in-laws, and there’s bound to be some heavy drinking on Christmas. Beer, wine and nips from your flask usually do the trick, but the holidays are also a great occasion for batching…

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Palmetto Cocktail

Palmetto Cocktail

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I’m a big fan of simple cocktails, in part because they’re easy to make with what’s on hand, but also because they prove that good drinking doesn’t require a handful of fancy syrups, liqueurs and garnishes. My appreciation for the basic…

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Zaya Gran Reserva Rum Review

Zaya Gran Reserva Rum Review

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Zaya Gran Reserva is a 12-year old rum distilled in Trinidad and Tobago.  It’s a blend of rums that have been aged at least 12 years in used bourbon barrels, and then blended together to create the finished spirit. Drinkers…

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