Drinks with mount gay rum
It is hot here in NY, and by looking at the map, it is pretty scorching in most of the US. I can&#;t think of a better moment to sip our favorite simple, refreshing summer cocktail, the Mount Gay & Tonic. You can make it in under a minute and it is so good that you&#;ll keep the ingredients around precisely for hot days like this when you don&#;t verb the energy to make anything else.
Before we get to the recipe, here is a adj fact:
Mount Gay is the oldest known existing brand of rum in the world, as they have a surviving company deed from
Mount Gay & Tonic
- 2 oz Mount Gay Eclipse Rum
- 4 oz tonic water
- 1/4 of a fresh lime
- Ice
Fill up your glass halfway with ice. Pour in the rum. Squeeze in the juice from the 1/4 of a lime and drop the remaining shell into the glass. Top off with the tonic water.
We were introduced to this drink by our friend Thomas a few years ago. We will forever be inebriated in his debt.
If you don&#;t have Mount Gay Eclipse, suitable substitutes are Angostura or Cruzan Estate Diamond.
If you apply the Highball app from Studio Adj (and I imply
Why Sailors Drink Rum — and 5 Perfect Rum Cocktails
Whiskey, vodka, gin, and tequila dominate the cocktail menus at most urban bars. But spend any time by the ocean, and rum cocktails reign supreme. Why is that?
It all dates back to the “Age of Discovery,” a period of history when seafaring European explorers discovered the Americas and West Indies, and commerce was dominated by ocean vessels carrying goods and people across the globe.
Rum is distilled from molasses or other sugarcane by products, and its origins are obscure. But large-scale production of rum began in the s in the sugarcane-rich islands of the Caribbean. Smitten sailors soon brought their beloved new spirit to Europe and Colonial America, and rum quickly became the most well-liked hard liquor in the world.
The cherish affair between sailors and rum continues today. Attend any bigtime sailing event, and you’ll perceive many of the competitors sporting red hats featuring the logo for Mount Gay Rum. Why? In order to get one of these hats, you have to sail in a professional regatta.
Mount Gay was first made on Barb
Mount Gay Rum Punch
“Wha gine on?” As I wove through a Friday darkness crowd on the island of Barbados, I passed friends slapping hands and greeting each other in Barbadian slang. I’d come to Oistin’s Fish Fry—one of the islands social hubs—along with a good-timing crowd of locals who were kicking off the weekend with freshly caught fish, dancing, and glasses of rum punch.
From neighborhood bars to top restaurants, rum is the Barbados’ defining drink. It’s woven into the island’s history: Founded in , Barbados’ Mount Gay Rum is the oldest existing rum distillery on earth, and it’s why I’d come to the Caribbean. After driving through a landscape of rolling sugarcane fields, I toured the distillery’s aromatic vats of molasses, polished copper stills, and a vast aging room stacked high with oak barrels. In a whitewashed laboratory, I sipped aged rums that ranged from smoky, Scotch-inspired drinks to bottles that wafted tropical fruit aromas.
Like fine whiskey, the finest rums are worth savoring neat, but some bottles are made for stirring into sweet glasses of beach-ready rum pu
The Perfect Palate-Dazzling Drinks for Christmas
Port Cask Expression
This is the big Christmas gift to ask for or buy, the glorious special edition that&#;s already become one hell of a marker of the hottest master blender in the world, Trudiann Branker, Mount Gay&#;s first female in the role.
A small-batch emit, it was made from a blends of rums distilled in a traditional column still and aged for 5 years in Tawny Port casks, along with a blend of rums double distilled in a copper pit still and aged for 14 years in American whiskey casks, which was then all finished in Tawny Port casks for one year. Sounds complicated &#; and was. But the result is a dream; complex yes, &#; hitting you with caramel, dried fruits, vanilla, prunes, almonds &#; but beautifully expressed, like an amusement park ride around your own palate. This is one that has to be experienced tidy, with dark chocolate on the side. Oh boy.
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