A fruit flavor bombardment in your mouth, the Grape Ape covers a ton of fruity flavors while bringing a slightly citrus finish. Flavors that transition from orange to black cherry into a slightly acidic ending, nothing but fruitiness in this cocktail.
The Tropical tini is a slightly sweet tropical beverage with pineapple rum and vanilla vodka and a slight splash of orange juice. This drink is a pretty candy-like flavor of pineapple, if there was a tropical mildly sweet candy this would be it, the Tropical Tini!
Today begins a week of grapefruit cocktails, we got some grapefruit juice so we want to bust through some user submissions using the juice. So, expect some sour bites to this weeks show. The hemingway cocktail is a mild version of a sour bite, the maraschino liqueur takes center stage it seems.
This tropical cocktail is a recipe we’ve worked up ourselves and are quite proud to show it off. Complete with a coconut vessel for the contents of the drink. We’re using fresh passion fruit with coconut rum, dark rum, vita coco with passion fruit coconut water and a bit of simple syrup to lightly sweeten.
Very refreshing without over-doing any sweetness; super authentic taste and a fun time making it.
The Marshmallow, toasted. This cocktail is two simple ingredients with the purpose of making your shooter taste like something it truly is not: the Toasted Marshmallow. Frangelico with Coconut rum, two ingredient’s that are unlikely partners in a cocktail, they’re combined to form a tasty little shot.
We know which rum was our favorite from last episode, but we don’t know which one tastes the best in a cocktail. Presumably the cocktail that tasted best when tested straight should be the winner, right? After all, the best spirits make the best ingredients for a cocktail. Of course, all of these coconut rums [...]
We’re tasting coconut rums this week. We’ve got Cruzan, Malibu, Parrot Bay and Don Q coconut rums. What’s your favorite? What cocktails do you create with it? Don’t forget to checkout the show now showing at AlcoholsByVolume.com.
The name says it all! Okay, we’re not sure why it’s named the White Haired Monkey besides the slight tendrils of while hair. This cocktail brings in our Spirit of the Month: Cruzan Coconut Rum with a few friends in the name of banana liqueur and milk. Chocolate coconut coffee, if that makes you salivate [...]
Muddled ginger, this isn’t something we’ve tried before. Initially, finding ginger at the super market was a pain in the butt, but once we found it and learned how to cut it up correctly we were able to create the Ginger Honey Rummy. This is a comical look at what you can do to create [...]
The final installment of our first blind rum tasting concludes with this episode in which we battle current leader Bacardi against Cruzan and 10 Cane rum. While every rum we’ve tasted in our blind tasting has qualified as a good product, we can only have one winner so it will come down to round 3. [...]
