SERVING SUGGESTIONS:
The Pirata Cocktail - a Cuban classic exploded by Gunpowder Rum
This application of the unrepentant fire-water that is Smoke & Oakum's comes to us from a cocktail book picked up in Cuba in 2009: El convite de los sentidos, 200 cocteles cubanos, by Alejandro Montesinos Larrosa.
Shake with crushed ice and pour all into your favourite Tiki mug. Garnish with a mint sprig - or if feeling flame-boyant...
Hollow out half of a small lime and float on top of the drink. Fill with more Gunpowder Rum and a sprinkle of demerara sugar. Ignite (push mint down into drink first). Sprinkle with cinnamon for effect just before serving.
Pirata
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30ml S.&O.'s Gunpowder Rum
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15ml orgeat
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7ml lemon juice
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15ml dark creme de cacao
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15ml brandy
The Blasted Bellini - a simple mix of rum, peach, sugar and Prosecco that is more than the sum of its parts.
The Bellini is, of course, the house specialty of Harry's Bar in Venice - no trip to the sinking city is complete without drinking one of these in the place of its birth. The Harry's Bar Bellini is 1 part peach puree to 3 parts Prosecco. Our version merely adds rum.
The Blasted Bellini:
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30ml S & O's Gunpowder Rum
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Flesh of half a fresh white peach
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1/2 barspoon white sugar
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Prosecco sparkling wine.
Dice the peach flesh then muddle thoroughly with the sugar in the base of a boston - add the rum and some cracked ice and shake with great ferocity in order to pulp the pulp even further.
Fine strain into a short, chilled glass then add the Prosecco according to the ratio noted above.
The Gunpowder, Double Blood & Sand Cocktail - a signature serve and twist on a 1920's classic
Perhaps one of the finest applications of Gunpowder Rum known to man, woman, beast or zombie - the Gunpowder Blood & Sand enhanced by the seasonal application of blood orange - hence 'Double Blood'.
Gunpowder, Double Blood & Sand:
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30ml S & O's Gunpowder Rum
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20ml Cherry Heering
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20ml Italian vermouth
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one fresh wedge of Blood Orange
Shake with determination and maybe a trace of acrimony then fine strain into your preferred stem-ware (or the skull of your enemy if available).
Present on a bed of sand dashed with red wine.