Spirit Of The Week: Rum, Part1

We haven’t had a good old fashioned Spirit Of The Week article for a couple of weeks. We have let you down. So how about 2 weeks of rum drinks to ease the pain?

These are courtesy of our friends at A History Of Drinking.

Dino Sour

recipe adapted from Diffordsguide.com

• 1 oz Light Rum
• 1 oz Dark Rum
• 1 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 1/2 oz Simple Syrup
• 1/2 fresh egg white

Glass: Old Fashioned

Garnish: Lemon slice & cherry on stick (sail)

Shake with ice and strain into an ice filled old fashioned glass.

 

Raisin in the Rum

Recipe by the barstaff of 54 Below. Adapted from Playbill.com

• 1 oz. coconut flavored rum
• 1 oz. amaretto
• 2 oz. light rum

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

 

Dark N’ Stormy

recipe and image courtesy of  Bounce Sporting Club 55 West 21st Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)

• Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
• Fresh Lime Juice
• Fever-Tree Ginger Beer

Build in glass and garnish with lime

 

 

 

Dark N’ Horny

Another slightly more risque take on the classic rum and ginger beer classic

recipe and image by Leave ROCHELLE Out of It 205 Chrystie Street (at Stanton Street)

• Brugal Anejo Rum
• Ginger Beer
• Lime Juice

Build in glass and garnish with lime

 

 

Hemingway Daiquiri

recipe and image courtesy of  Sons of Essex 133 Essex Street (between Rivington and Stanton Streets) 

• Brugal rum
• Maraschino
• Grapefruit
• lime

Shake with ice and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass