Wrap up the year 2022 and toast to the incoming New Year in style with five rum cocktail recipes by Monika Alcobev’s cocktail expert Dushyant Tanwar.
Here’s the thing! The finest rum cocktails feel like a cosy night out in a crisp wintery season. There’s a mood of comfort that drapes around the house and all one needs is a sense of comfort. And what better way than to sip and indulge in some palatable rounds of rum cocktail recipes?
Winter is synonymous with rum for a lot of spirit connoisseurs, and with the New Year 2023 approaching fast, celebrate the drop in the mercury and new beginnings with perfect rum drinks. Monika Alcobev’s cocktail expert Dushyant Tanwar shares five best rum cocktail recipes to get the party started this New Year!
Mango Daiquiri
Ingredients
50ml Bush Rum Mango
25ml passionfruit puree /passionfruit liqueur
15ml sugar syrup
15ml freshly squeezed lime
Method
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker
Add cubed ice into a shaker and shake vigorously
Double strain into a martini-style glass
Garnish with half a passionfruit and a shot of prosecco (optional).
Bossa Nova
Ingredients
40ml Bush Rum Passionfruit & Guava
15ml Galliano liqueur
15ml apricot liqueur
10ml lemon juice
50ml equal parts of fresh pineapple juice and orange juice
Method
Add all the ingredients into a large glass with ice.
Shake hard for 15 seconds.
Double strain into a highball glass with ice.
Garnish with 1 pineapple leaf, half passion fruit, and Viola flower.
Hibiscus Fashioned
Ingredients
50ml Ashanti Spiced Rum
10ml Hibiscus Syrup
Orange Peel
Lemon Bitters
Method
Add all the ingredients you have in a mixing glass
Smoke the serving glass with star anis
Stir the mixture with 35 turns and serve under a carved ice cube
Decorate with squeezed orange peel on the glass
Black Mic Mac
Ingredients
50ml Ashanti Spiced Rum
10ml chestnut syrup
20ml aged wine
Absente on the walls of the glass
Method
Add all the ingredients in a mixing glass over ice
Stir with 30 laps and serve in a lowball glass over square ice
Garnish with orange peel and chocolate.
Passionfruit Rumtini
Ingredients
40ml Bush Rum Passionfruit & Guava
10ml vanilla syrup
10ml brown sugar syrup
10ml lemon juice
3 dashes bitters
Method
Pour ingredients into a mixing glass filled 2/3 with ice in the order listed.
Shake and strain into a chilled coupe glass
Garnish with half a passionfruit.
So, which of these rum cocktail recipes are you going to give a stir this New Year?
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