RUM COCKTAILS VOL III

How are we doing guys? Welcome back to the Bonville Cocktail Collection. Now can you believe it's been over four years since we did volume two of our rum cocktail series, which is crazy because rum is one of my favourite spirits and without doubt my favourite cocktail category. When I first started bartending seriously rum was huge, every other cocktail we made was a mojito. But it looked like Jim was taken over there for a little bit and although for me rum never went away, word on the street is it's coming back to reclaim its crown as the most popular cocktail spirit. And rightfully so, it's incredibly versatile when using cocktails. You've got flavour profiles ranging from crisp white light rums to rich robust and yahoo rums. There's loads of little distilleries popping up producing amazing spirits and most importantly it's absolutely delicious. So what better time to give you volume three of our favourite rum cocktails. 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I think Fraser actually made this for the Havana Club Grand Prix in about 2008 and I think he definitely went to Cuba with it I don't know if it won the whole thing but anyway so we're going to start off with two whole strawberries and two wedges of pineapple into our tin going to muddle that next up 20 mils of lime juice 20 mils of simple syrup as always one part sugar one part water by volume 50 mils of Havana Club Anejo Special and the cocktail was initially invented for this rum in particular so I'm sure it'll work well with another Anejo rum last ingredient is a couple of good cracks of black pepper that's it give it a shake just strain that into a frozen coupe with all those fresh ingredients you're definitely going to want to fine strain this one and we're going to finish with a pineapple and a strawberry and I seem to remember Fraser cracking a bit of black pepper on the top of it and that is a 45 47. All right guys next up is probably the most famous of the twists on a daiquiri and this video isn't really going to be called the daiquiri twist but and this is the Hemingway daiquiri originally made for the man himself at Floridita Bar in Cuba by the legendary bartender Constantino Ribei... Constantino Ribaiagua... Constantino Ribaiagua by the legendary bartender Constantino Ribaiagua and there's no need to comment on that pronunciation because I pretty much nailed it and our first ingredient is 15 mils of fresh lime juice 15 mils of simple syrup I know the original one didn't have any sugar in it but you're not Ernest Hemingway so you need a bit of sweetness 10 mils of fresh pink grapefruit next up five mils of maraschino liqueur I've got the Giffords one which probably wouldn't be my preference the Luxado one's a bit nicer a bit drier but this is what we've got and then our rum so we need 40 mils of white rum don't get mad again I should be using a Cuban rum but I think it's important to support local in this day and age so we're using scratch rum which is as good as anything that you get in Cuba but produced just north of London it is really good stuff actually if you can get hold of a bottle I suggest you try some and that's it just strain that into a small cocktail glass just going to use a Nick & Nora here you can of course double strain if you want if that's what you're into I've got a I've got two springs on my Hawthorne strainer so that should be enough strainage to keep most of the big ice shards out but if you like the ice shards leave them in and we can finish there as well doesn't really need a garnish but if you wanted to you can garnish with a little pink grapefruit twist pop that in and that is the Hemingway Daiquiri with sugar all right guys next up we are going back to Jerry Thomas's 1862 Bartender's Guide and this is a drink called a White Lions it's a shake and drink we're going to start with two whole fresh raspberries just in the tin 20 mils of simple syrup 20 mils of fresh lime juice 10 mils of dry curacao and 40 mils of rum we're going to be using Malgay Clips give that a good hard shake just strain that into a highball we'll top that up with some crushed ice we're using those nugget moulds that I mentioned in a previous video because we don't have a crushed ice machine here and you can crush your own ice but I think this stuff's a bit nicer it holds the drink for a bit longer it doesn't dilute as quick so it doesn't turn into like a slushy I reckon a straw finish off with a lime wedge and a raspberry and that is a White Lion all right guys for the next drink we're going back to the Floridita bar in Havana Cuba and our old mate Constantino Ribeiragua and his cocktail called the Flamingo we're going to start off with 30 mils of fresh pineapple juice 5 mils of grenadine and then I'm going to say 5 to 15 mils of fresh lime juice depending on how sweet your pineapple juice is and how sweet your grenadine is and how sour you want to drink let's just split the difference and go 10. Last but not least our rum we're going to go back to the Havana Club Añejo Especial again it will work nicely I'm going to go 50 mils of that give it a good shake just strain that into a frozen coupe and no need to garnish because you're going to get that beautiful foam from the fresh pineapple juice and that is the Flamingo all right guys last but not least we're going to make a super simple cocktail called the Bacardi cocktail and an interesting fact about this one is in 1936 the supreme court of the state of New York ruled it illegal to make this cocktail with any other rum other than Bacardi it's quite similar to the Flamingo in as much as it's got five mils of grenadine so we'll start with that and then 20 mils of lemon juice not lime juice this time 20 mils of simple syrup and 40 mils of light rum now Bacardi is a great rum but I don't think anyone should tell us which rum we can use and we ain't in New York so we're going to go with our local brew 40 mils of white rum give that a shake and that into our frozen coupe we've got just a little coupe for this one because it's not a very big drink just finish that bit there and that is a Bacardi cocktail all right guys I hope you enjoyed that let us know how you got one of those cocktails down in the comments don't forget to like subscribe and share we'll see you next time but an interesting fact about this one is in 1936 the supreme illegal to make this cocktail without any other without dream court of new york coming back to take its top spot as a number one top spot as the number one most popular most popular spirit cocktail cocktail spirit top spot as the most popular spirit cocktail top spot as the most popular spirit cocktail popular spirit cocktail as the most popular spirit cocktail back to take its top spot as the most spot as the most popular spirit cocktail cocktail spirit cocktail spirit just like Cocktail spirit, huh? 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