These rum cocktails aren’t for landlubbers, but with a little bit of dead reckoning (and a good amount of rum) you’ll be ready to shiver some timbers in no time.
Mutineer
- 1 .5 oz Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
- 3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice
- 3/4 oz Simple Syrup
- 5 Raspberries
- 3 Dashes Bitters
- Bottom: 2 oz Cola
Method: In a shaker, combine all the ingredients but the cola. Shake and strain into a rocks glass with cola. Garnish with a lime wedge.
Oak and Ginger
- 1 oz Oakheart Spiced Rum
- 3 oz ginger ale
- lime wedge
Method: Build over ice.
Meehan’s Black Flip
(Created by Jim Meehan New York, NY)
- 1½ parts Cruzan Black Strap Rum
- 2 parts Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
- ½ part Demerara syrup
- 1 whole Egg
Method: Combine ingredients in a mixing glass and swirl to decarbonate beer. Dry shake. Add ice and shake again, then strain into a chilled fizz glass. Garnish foamy top with grated nutmeg.
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1934
- 2 parts Havana Club Añejo Clásico
- ¾ parts Martini & Rossi sweet vermouth
- ½ part Amaro
- 2 dashes orange bitters
Method: Stir all ingredients vigorously with plenty ice until very cold, strain into a rocks glass with an ice sphere. Garnish with an orange peel.
Noche Española
- 2 oz Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva
- 1/2 oz Amontillado sherry
- 1/2 oz lime
- 1/2 oz brown sugar simple syrup
Method: Place ingredients in order listed in a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake and serve in a martini glass or coupe.
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- Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?
- Pardon me, but would ya mind if I fired me cannon through your porthole?
- Prepare to be boarded.
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