Ask a dozen friends to describe spiced rum, and you’ll likely get a handful of college hangover stories, a few who ask “Captain Morgan?” and some who just stare at you in silence. This is an absolute shame, since these aromatic bottles can be a sip of tropical paradise. Despite its Pirates of the Caribbean reputation, spiced ...
Orgeat is a cocktail ingredient that perplexes. For starters, it’s mispronounced more often than many of us care to admit: or-GEE-at, rather than the correct, French-inflected or-ZHAT. In the cocktail world, orgeat is considered to be in the pantheon of “classic” mixers. Yet how many cocktails actually call for the syrup? So is orgeat a classic, an ...
To rum fans, Jeff “Beachbum” Berry needs no introduction. One of Imbibe magazine’s “25 Most Influential Cocktail Personalities of the Past Century,” Jeff is the author of six books on vintage Tiki drinks and cuisine, which Los Angeles magazine dubbed “the keys to the tropical kingdom.” Esquire calls him “one of the instigators of the ...
Chairman's Reserve Rum has adopted the Mai Tai as its signature cocktail. As part of the brand's re-launch campaign, Chairman's Reserve conducted regional Mai Tai cocktail competitions in sophisticated spirit markets around the globe. These competitions are part of a worldwide educational effort and multi-market challenge to the world's top bartenders to discover the authentic roots ...
Build in glass in order listed. Add ice. Stir approximately 20 times. Express orange peel over cocktail and enjoy!
The rum world is a place of multifaceted beauty, and one of the more captivating styles of the spirit is the category of rhum agricole, traditionally made in the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe...
On September 23rd San Francisco's, Louisiana-styled Old Devil Moon celebrated its first year anniversary. We may have passed their commemorating ceremony, but thankfully Eloise Porter of SFWeekly ...
When news broke that New York City nightlife hitmaker Ravi DeRossi, of Death & Co., Mayahuel and Amor y Amargo fame, was transforming his literally ...
Allow us to be the first to wish you a Happy International Mai Tai Day, August 30th. This, of course, is different than National Mai ...