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Hot Buttered Rum

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Hot Buttered Rum

Hot Buttered Rum

Break the cold spell and warm up with a hot cup of deliciousness. Here’s a drink that’ll help you feel toasty. Enjoy warm rum with soft notes of oak, molasses, creamy butter and nutmeg.

Ingredients

2 oz Brugal Anejo Rum

1 tsp brown sugar

4 oz hot water

1 Tbsp butter

Dusting of nutmeg to garnish

Method

In a heat-resistant glass or mug, dissolve brown sugar in hot water, add Brugal Anejo Rum, then float a spoonful of butter on top. Grate or sprinkle nutmeg over top.

Tips

This is a rather simple recipe and the majority of the flavour comes from the rum.

Be sure to use an aged rum like Brugal Anejo, which is a blend of ages between two to five years, for best results.

Christmas Punch

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Christmas Punch

It’s here, it’s here! The time of year that is filled with cheer. The holiday season is upon us and with it, gatherings of friends and family. To impress your guests, serve some Christmas Punch made with black cherry bourbon, smooth aged rum, cherry liqueur, tart cranberry and a splash of ginger ale for fizz. Don’t forget the peppermint candy cane!

Ingredients

½ oz. Brugal Anejo Rum

½ oz. Jim Beam Red Stag

½ oz. Bols Cherry Brandy Liqueur

2 oz. cranberry juice

Splash of Gingerale

Garnish with a candy cane

Method

This is a shaken drink so start by pouring all the ingredients, except for the ginger ale, into a shaker filled with ice. Shake until all ingredients are chilled and well mixed. Strain into a tall glass filled with ice. Top with ginger ale and place a candy cane in the drink resting the hook on the rim.

Tips

This drink is quick to make. However, if having a large number of guests to accommodate, serve in a large punch bowl. To accomplish this, multiply the recipe by the amount of drinks you anticipate will be consumed. Pour into a large punch bowl and stir briskly to ensure well mixed. Just before guests arrived add several ice cubes and approximately ¼ ounce of ginger ale for every drink you anticipate. Garnish the rim of the punch bowl with small candy canes hanging from the rim.

Some tips for serving in the punch bowl are to leave the ice in a bucket on the side so the ice doesn’t melt into the punch, watering down the drink. Guests can add ice to their glass before filling with the punch. This can also be done with the ginger ale. Omit the ginger ale in the punch and leave a few cans unopened next to the punch bowl so guests can add a fresh splash to their drink as needed.

You can also freeze cranberry juice into ice cubes. Use half the amount of cranberry juice needed in your punch. Let the cranberry ice cubes chill the punch and, as they melt, add more cranberry flavour.

Midnight Kiss

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The holidays are wrapping up and it’s almost time to count down to the new year. Kiss the past goodbye and start 2012 with a cheer to all that the new year has in store.

Playful bubbles bounce on your tongue while the strong spirit of vodka unites with notes of light orange in the Midnight Kiss cocktail.

Midnight Kiss

Ingredients:

1 oz. Russian Standard Vodka

5oz. Champagne or Sparkling White Wine

1/2 oz. Bols Blue Liqueur

White sugar

Method:

Wet the rim of a champagne flute with a slice of lemon and then rim with sugar.  Pour Russian Standard Vodka into the bottom and then slowly fill with champagne or sparkling white wine.  Top with the Bols Blue Liqueur.

Tips:

You can prepare the glasses with a sugar rim ahead of time and leave them in the fridge to chill. Leaving the vodka in the freezer is a nice touch to keep the drink colder longer.

St. Nick Martini

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The St. Nick Martini has a distinctive icy blue colour, with flavours of sweet orange, tart lemon and a strong crispness thanks to the vodka. The garnish of raspberry with icing sugar represents Santa Claus with his red hat and snow white beard. Happy holidays!

St. Nick Martini

Ingredients

11/2 oz. Russian Standard Vodka

1/2 oz. Bols Blue Liqueur

1/4 oz. fresh squeezed lemon juice

Raspberry, half covered in icing sugar for garnish

Method: Use a lemon wedge to wet half the rim of a martini glass then roll in white sugar and scoop ice in it to let the glass chill.

In a shaker glass add ice and the rest of the ingredients. Shake until the metal shaker becomes frosted. Empty ice out of the martini glass, then strain liquid into it. Garnish with a raspberry dipped half way into icing sugar.

Tips: You can skip the measuring of the lemon juice if you cut a lemon into wedges and squeeze the juice from two or three into your shaker. That will give you approximately the amount you need, depending on the size and ripeness of the lemon.

If you would like to make this martini sweeter, add more Bols Blue. If you would like it more sour, add more lemon juice. If you would like a martini that is not as strong, decrease the amount of vodka to 1 oz and increase Bols Blue to 1 oz.

The half-sugar rim allows you or your guest to choose whether to sip through the sugar or without. A nice touch.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/life/Cocktail+week+Nick+Martini/5899947/story.html#ixzz1idBEcNsO