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National Rum Day

August 16, 2011 in Uncategorized by traveleatlove | 15 comments

Happy National Rum Day! I love a holiday, and I love that national food and drink days give us something to celebrate every day. Life is too short to not celebrate, isn’t it?

We are celebrating National Rum Day with our friends at Brugal, who very kindly sent me samples of their Ron Blanco Especial and Ron Añejo to whip up some delicious cocktails.

Our first cocktail is called Boat Drink because that is where we enjoyed it over the weekend and the perfect place for a fruit rum cocktail to be served.

I started with about 1/3 of this bottle of Brugal Ron Blanco Especial.

I poured it into my trusty plastic cocktail pitcher along with 17 ounces of Vita Coco coconut water with pineapple, half a can of Dole pineapple juice and a generous splash of Angostura bitters.

Before heading down to the boat, I poured myself a sample cocktail in one of my nana’s dessert dishes. Don’t tell my nana I am using her dessert dishes for cocktails, but I love how Drink serves their cocktails in fun containers and thought these were perfect.

The second rum cocktail we made using this delicious rum was a kicked up Dark and Stormy.

The cocktail contained the Ron Añejo, a shot and a half per glass.

I mixed that with a teaspoon of freshly grated ginger. You can never have too much ginger spice!

grated ginger

To each glass, I added half a bottle of Reed’s ginger beer. While I like this ginger beer, I wish it was spicier. I may try making my own sometime soon.

This kicked up Brual Dark and Stormy is topped off with a generous amount of lime juice, half of a very juicy lime in each glass, and lots of ice.

We have more rum left to mix up cocktails, AND Brugal sent us some cocktail recipes from Eastern Standard and The Wequasset Resort on Cape Cod. Long live National Rum Day and the summer!

What are your favorite rum cocktails?

Tags: Brugal, cocktails, ginger, ginger beer, pineapple juice, rum

Brugal Rum Party

February 18, 2011 in events, Food by traveleatlove | 8 comments

The Urban Grape strikes again! Every time I attend one of their in-store events, I feel like I am at a great party. Surely, a good sign. Last night was a much-needed, summery Caribbean-themed party featuring Brugal rum cocktails mixed by Bill Codman of Woodward at Ames and Brugal’s signature Kickass Cupcakes treats.

I was actually supposed to attend Brugal’s media event on Wednesday night, but I was asked to attend the AIWF Board meeting and was glad that I did. Winking smile I was also glad I had a second chance to try Brugal rum on Thursday night, combining fun cocktails with the awesome Urban Grape owners/staff, and our friend Catherine who is doing Marketing for Brugal (and played a huge part in my appointment to the AIWF Board, thank you!)

My husband and I spent some time browsing the walls at the Urban Grape while Bill Codman mixed up Brugal cocktails. The entire room smelled of fresh mint and rum, and Caribbean music played on in the background.

The first drink we tried was an Old Cuban which combined sparkling wine, rum, mint, lime, bitters, and simple syrup. The Old Cuban did not taste like an alcoholic drink at all. . . it was like a delicious, slightly fizzy juice. Dangerous.

While I am not very familiar with rum, I learned last night how smooth Brugal tastes in cocktails, and I would be willing to bet it is pretty delicious all by itself.

Along with the cocktails, we sampled signature cupcakes from Kickass Cupcakes. In the spirit of full disclosure, I will admit that I have had Kickass Cupcakes only once before and found them really dry, but the Brugal Anejo Cupcake was absolutely fantastic. It was buttery and caramel-y with a hint of rum flavor, totally moist and tender cake. I didn’t try the Mojito, but my husband did, and he liked that one even better.

Brugal definitely adds a special something to baked goods!

I didn’t catch the name of the second cocktail. On the plus side, it had bits of fresh ginger in it. To its detriment, it also had pineapple juice, and somewhere deep in my memory, I have had a bad pineapple juice and rum experience. Completely not the fault of the mixologist or the rum, just one of those things that you don’t quite forget.

We ended up leaving the Urban Grape with a bottle of the Brugal Anejo. Brugal is the best-selling rum in the Caribbean, and you can definitely see why. It’s exciting that they have come to Boston, and they have an abundance of free tasting events so you can see for yourself.

We also left the Urban Grape with a selection of beer. Their beer guy Noah had some awesome suggestions for us, based on things we have purchased in the past. While they do have a long wall of wine, they have an equally impressive wall of beer, sake, Bourbon, and other spirits. They are undoubtedly one of my favorite businesses in all of the Boston area.

Did you do anything fun yesterday to celebrate the warmer weather? I saw some people showing serious skin downtown. It wasn’t THAT warm!

Tags: beer, Brugal, cocktails, Cupcakes, rum, Urban Grape

Hot Buttered Rum

January 26, 2011 in recipe by traveleatlove | 15 comments

Hello Travel Wine Dine readers! My name’s Daisy and I blog over at Indulge Inspire Imbibe. I offered to write a guest post for Meghan while she spends some time in Ireland.

It has been an extremely snowy winter here in New England thus far, or haven’t you noticed? Instead of dreading the massive storms that seem to fall upon us every week, I embrace them by experimenting with libations to warm the soul. Last week I crafted a Hot Toddy and while it stands as a favorite winter warmer, the Hot Buttered Rum isn’t so bad itself. Switching up the cocktail routine (it’s a long winter after all) proves easy and satisfying.

Ingredients:

1 small slice soft butter
1 tsp brown sugar
1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp vanilla extract
2 oz dark rum

hot water
My favorite type of dark rum is Goslings Black Seal. (I usually have some on hand for mixing Dark-n-Stormys in the summertime!)

Muddle the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in the bottom of a glass or Irish coffee mug.

Pour in the rum

Pour in the hot water
Stir

There’s just something about the fluffy white stuff falling from the pale blue skies (okay, sometimes they are dark and gray, whose keeping score) and blanketing the earth that lifts my spirits. It evokes an inner happiness, a feeling of pure delight.