So I am getting ready to go through my first hurricane. To get into the spirit of things I decided to make a hurricane cocktail. This is a basic hurricane recipe, but made with grenadine instead of passion fruit juice. Delicious and the ingredients were easy to come by. A good thing when all of [...]
Dana and I made a trip to Costco a few days ago, and we could not leave without a giant tub of powdered lemonade mix. Knowing that there was no way we could possibly drink enough lemonade this summer to empty the tub, I started mixing cocktails. Did you know that if you substitute the [...]
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It is spring and I am stuck in a tropical drink grind. Every new cocktail that I think up is tropical in style. I guess I am hoping that one of these drinks takes me back to an island. Either way, today’s drink is awesome. It is heavy on pineapple and coconut like a pina [...]
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While on vacation in the Caribbean I was bombarded with Rum Punch. The go to drink for every restaurant, day cruise, and beach waiter was Rum Punch. I had a few of them over the course of my honeymoon and I noticed that none of them tasted the same. I asked the bartender at my [...]
It has been super nice here in DC. This weekend is supposed to reach the 80′s. So I decided to make a nice refreshing cocktail. This week’s cocktail is the strawberry daiquiri. This is a quick and easy rum based drink, as long as you have a blender. No blender, then this might not be [...]
Posted in Cocktails Tags: cocktail, daiquiri, Drinks, easy, how to, recipe, rum, strawberry daiquiri 2 Comments »Last week I picked up some different rums to make the hurricane cocktail for Mardi Gras. Since I had some extra lying around I decided to make another cocktail. This one combines my two favorite juices, orange juice and cranberry juice. I served it straight up in a Martini glass but also enjoyed it on [...]
Posted in Cocktails Tags: Cocktails, cranberry juice, orange juice, Recipes, rum, rum drinks, rumster, the rumster 2 Comments »I love mojitos. The lime and mint coming together to mask the sharp bite of rum. Yeah, I drink the cheap stuff. Anyways Rum is good, but Rum with mint and lime is awesome!!!. To take a line from Jim Brewer, Jackpot!!! Hopefully he doesn’t get mad as that is his only line, but I [...]
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