Break the Stereotypes and Drink Rum in February

Refreshing Cocktails made from mixing rum in the season where we don’t feel cold but it isn’t too hot either, hey! Welcome to Februarys in India. And for this month we need to modernise our drinks a little and give in ourselves to experiment a little with rum in special.

Before that let’s go back and learn a little about rum in general. So rum is the first alcohol that was distilled and manufactured back in the 1620s in the Caribbean’s. Interestingly, it’s also the first booze that drank just for pleasure purposes and not medical use. Rum is mostly made from sugarcane by the process of fermenting and distilling. And few countries import molasses or sugar beets to make rum reducing the labour required in ageing the sugar cane in oak barrels. Today Bacardi Rum is quite famous worldwide and holds the largest rum distillery which is in the Caribbean too.

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MAI TAI

Mai Tai is one of the most famous spring drinks in the world. And for all the cocktails enthusiast it’s a drink to paradise.

Ingredients

*You can use white rum or dark rum depending on your choice.

• 2 ounces of dark rum
• 1 ounce of lime juice
• 1 ounce of orange curacao
• 1/2 ounce of orgeat (sweet creamy syrup)
• 3 ounces of lime juice freshly squeezed
• Mint and lemon wheel for presentation

Directions to make

- Mix the juices and dark rum in a shaker and add ice to it. Pour orgeat into the drink and shake it well. Finally pour it in a classic cocktail glass and garnish it with lime wheel and mint.

PAINKILLER

True to its name painkiller cures all your ache. It’s a twist on the Pinna Colada drink and has a rich fruity flavour to it.

Ingredients

• 3 ounces of dark or gold rum
• 2.5 ounces of pineapple juice
• 1 ounce of cream of coconut
• 1 ounce of orange juice
• Garnish it with mint and pineapple pieces
• Direction to make

- Add the rum and mix other juices in the shaker, shake vigorously and add to it. Take coconut cream and mix it too into the drink. Pour the drink into a hurricane glass and add more crushed ice and garnish it with pineapple wedges.

• PAINKILLER
• MAI TAI

From the February-March 2021 issue of FHM India.