Our friends at Barritt’s Ginger Beer roll out their drink blog and add some nice recipes after an inspired showing at the August 19th rum event in Philly.
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As summer winds down in Minneapolis (seriously, evening temps are down in the 50s already) City Pages rolls out their Top 5 Rum Drinks. Check ‘em out.
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Happy Monday! Let’s start the week with a rum cocktail recipe from Esquire Magazine and a side of booze commentary from Dave Wondrich. Cheers!
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The Kentucky Derby has the mint julep, the Preakness has the Black-Eyed Susan cocktail and now the Ohio Derby has the Black Gold Cocktail.
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The Leopard Lounge at Palm Beach’s Chesterfield Hotel puts a rum-based spicey twist on the traditional Bloody Mary. Check out the full story and recipe.
Our three-way Signature Drink Competition has come to an end and after judging a month’s worth of terrific cocktail entries, we have a winner.
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Last month we held a Signature Drink Competition along with our friends at The Floating Rum Shack and Rum Dood.com. We challenged our readers to create an original cocktail recipe that captured [...]
Rum, lime, falernum, simple syrup and a really cool mixing technique…….what else could you want in a classic cocktail? Houston Press has the scoop.
Interested in making a fresh fruit Caipirinha this weekend? Check out this 12 minute video from Leblon. They’ve got you covered.
The weekly theme at Salon.com was rum and the food and drink recipes poured in. They called on Dr. Judith Harris to guest judge and deliciousness ensued.
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The team at Painkiller are cranking out some legendary drinks and doing their homework about cocktail ancestry. Check out their research on the Pina Colada.
“Before there were blenders and slushy machines and bitsy paper umbrellas, there was the traditional daiquiri, simple and sophisticated and loved by Hemingway.”
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A recent cocktail competition at New York’s Flatiron Grill results in several nice summer rum drink creations. Here are two of the standout entries.
Click here for details from New York Daily News.
Uh oh…..The Atlantic may be stirring up trouble by even mentioning the debated origin of the Mai Tai, but they’ve got a pretty nice recipe so we forgive them.
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It’s officially summer and Liquor.com whips out a few warm weather drinks. How can you go wrong with watermelon juice, arugula sprigs and rum?
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http://liquor.com/liquor/articles/the-hot-list-summer-cocktails/
2-ingredient drinks are great, especially when they’re as refreshing as the Dark ‘n’ Stormy. Here’s the right and wrong way to build a D’n’S from the Chicago Tribune.
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