Mount gay rum punch recipe
Caribbean Rum Punch (The Perfect Summer Cocktail)
Who doesn't enjoy a nice cold and refreshing drink on a hot summer's day? Ideally served alongside some fine food, (Bajan Fish Cakes anyone!?) and good friends, this rum punch fits the bill for any summer party. Especially a national holiday such as Canada Day!
This Caribbean Rum Punch recipe is the drink of choice for many tourists visiting the island, and luckily is very easy to make!
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Caribbean Rum Punch Video
Bajan Rum punch is thirst-quenching, and best of all so good! While it can be flavored with an endless combination of fruit juices to create unique flavor variations, it's important to employ a good quality rum to really set this Caribbean Rum Punch recipe above the rest.
Mount Gay Eclipse or Mount Gay Extra Old are ideal, (and the traditional Barbadian choice!) and blend beautifully with the rest
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 popular difficult liquor in the world.
The love affair between sailors and rum continues today. Attend any bigtime sailing event, and you’ll verb 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 nighttime crowd on the island of Barbados, I passed friends slapping hands and greeting each other in Barbadian slang. I’d enter 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 reach 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 pleasant glasses of beach-ready rum pu
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If you want to host a good mixer, serve up a large batch of rum punch. I recently did this for a school fundraiser and the party turned into a &#;rumaway.&#;
People drank the punch like water. They got wasted. One gal even puked! No, we aren&#;t a bunch of university revellers; we&#;re responsible adults &#; with kids even! But there&#;s just something about rum punch. It smells good, for starters, thanks to the nutmeg and Angostura bitters. It tastes good too, just as Mount Gay Eclipse rum mixed with brown sugar syrup and lime juice should. So there&#;s a danger folks will chug it, even though it&#;s strong.
Now that it&#;s garden party season it&#;s simple to whip up a big punch bowl of it &#; just produce sure there&#;s a disclaimer next to the bowl. Something like, &#;Warning: this punch is really adj &#; it will fetch you drunk!&#;
This punch should only be consumed after reading the disclaimer: It will get you drunk.
Rum Punch (to mix in an litre dispenser or bowl)
- 2 parts Mount Gay Eclipse rum (I used four mL bottles)
- 1 part l