LOW TIDE
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Sailor Jerry Spiced Navy Rum
½ oz (15 ml) Giffard Ginger of the Indies
¼ oz (7 ml) Okanagan Spirits Poire Williams
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
2 dashes Angostura bitters, to top
ginger beer, to top
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a shaker (except for ginger beer and bitters). Strain into a mason jar over fresh ice and top with ginger beer and bitters.
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TAR PIT
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Diplomatico Riserva Rum
½ oz (15 ml) Galliano Liqueur
½ oz (15 ml) butterscotch liqueur
1 oz (30 ml) chilled espresso
Instructions
- Shake rum, Galliano, butterscotch liqueur and espresso with ice in a shaker glass until very cold. Strain into a cocktail coupe glass and garnish with coffee beans.
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AUSTRIAN RED WINE PUNCH
Ingredients
Serves 18 to 20
2 cups (500 ml) hot, strong black tea
1 cup (250 ml) sugar
8 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
2 star anise pods
½ cup (125 ml) freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 4 lemons)
¾ cup (175 ml) orange juice
2 bottles (2 x 750 ml) full-bodied red wine
1 cup (250 ml) aged rum
lemon and orange slices, for garnish
Instructions
- In a large pot, over medium-high heat, combine freshly brewed tea with sugar, cloves, cinnamon and star anise. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves.
- Reduce heat to medium-low and add lemon and orange juice and continue to simmer for 15 minutes or so, then add red wine and rum, and cook for 5 more minutes, until heated through.
- Strain out cloves and cinnamon stick and either ladle punch into mugs or pour into a heatproof punch bowl and let guests serve themselves. Serve hot with fresh lemon or orange slices.
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MOJITO
Ingredients
Serves 1
20 fresh mint leaves
1 lime, cut into 4 wedges, divided
white sugar, to taste
2 cups (500 ml) ice cubes
4 oz (125 g) white rum
1 cup (250 ml) club soda
Instructions
- Gently press the basil or mint with the lime and simple syrup in a glass.
- Add the rum, plenty of ice and top with soda water.
- Stir and garnish with lime or herbs.