Rum

  • Happy Pina Colada Day!

    July 10th marks Pina Colada Day! The Pina Colada is the perfect blend of pineapple, coconut cream, rum and ice! I have to admit that a virgin Pina Colada (without the rum) is pretty delicious as well. Thanks to some medical issues and crazy antibiotics, I was forced to drink virgin drinks on a recent vacation. The virgin Pina Colada was the best of the bunch. Given the heatwave sweeping America, a Pina Colada would … Read more

  • True Blood

    True Blood is coming back this weekend!

    Being huge fans of True Blood we thought that this from drink Botran Rum would be perfect. It may not taste as good as the real thing, but fangers everywhere agree that True Blood comes damn close.… Read more

  • Night Nurse

    An after dinner drink created by Marshall Altier that is modeled on a favorite classic, “Silk Stockings”. Marshall retooled this one with the addition of Amaretto to dry off the drink and give it an earthy backbone and replaced Tequila as the base spirit with Denizen Rum to provide some body and aroma.… Read more

  • Daisy de Obeah

    This drink, created by Marshall Altier, is a variation of a Chares H Baker drink called Daisy de Santiago. Obeah is Trinin witchcraft and a play on the Strega (Italian for witch” float. It’s a lot more interesting with the Falernum and Strega combo hitting your senses. It’s easy to replicate.… Read more

  • Brass Monkey

    We were going to do a Cinco de Mayo Drink, but felt this would be more appropriate today.  There are a number of drinks named the Brass Monkey.  We think the Beastie Boys would have been drinking this  recipe, equal parts mart liquor and orange juice. Not for the faint of heart.

    We like the variation below too.

    RIP MCA

     

    Brass Monkey CocktailRead more

  • Cadenhead’s Scotch Shop

    I recently visited Scotland and stumbled upon Cadenhead’s, Scotland Oldest Independent Bottler. As it was a trip with my mom, who I may have mentioned would have been a prohibitionist if she lived 100 years ago, it clearly wasn’t a DOTW trip (and I hadn’t researched where to buy some great scotch). But, I wanted to make sure that I brought the hubby back a bottle or two of scotch that wasn’t available or readily … Read more