INGREDIENTS:

1 ounce Appleton Estate V/X

½ ounce Cointreau

1 ½ ounce Peach Juice

1 ounce Coconut Water

½ ounce Peach Syrup

PREPARATION

Add the rum, Cointreau and peach juice into the cocktail shaker with ice. Top with coconut water and peach juice.

GLASS TYPE: Highball Glass

GARNISHES: Use star fruit, a cherry and mint.

OUR TAKE ON THIS JAMAICAN RUM DRINK RECIPE:

Really great cocktail for an early evening drink

V/X Bomber – Jamaican Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

1 ounce Appleton Estate V/X

½ ounce Apple vodka

 ½ ounce Lime Juice

5 Mint Leaves

3 ounces Ginger Beer

PREPARATION

Shake the first four ingredients over ice and strain into a glass with ice. Then top with ginger beer.

GLASS TYPE: Highball Glass

GARNISHES: Use Lime Twist.

OUR TAKE ON THIS JAMAICAN RUM DRINK RECIPE:

A very strong cocktail, definitely for Jamaica rum lovers

Jamaican rum is characterized by having a very aromatic rum, and sometimes spices, which differs from others with ease. It also produces black rum.
Sugar cane was brought by the Arabs to Europe through Spain and cultivated mainly in the southern coasts, well-known today for possessing a climate suitable for all kinds of tropical crops, which took advantage of the Arabs to obtain sugar cane and other derivatives for pastry or certain types of beverages. In fact, is kept in the province of Granada trapiche the oldest in the world. In addition Arabs also brought to Spain, Europe, the process of distillation of alcohol with alembic (both words of Arabic origin). When the Christians conquered the kingdom of Granada Nazari, they imitate the true way of making a liqueur with fresh cane juice already practiced the Arabs and they in turn had copied from other cultures, so that the oldest rum which is known comes from Grenada.

The Spaniards took the helm in the Canary Islands and then to the Caribbean islands, mainly to Cuba, where the climate was much more appropriate and production of both sugar and rum, to be spent in the Canary Islands and in americas. When English and French, plus fans that the Spaniards to spirits high alcohol content, are installed in the West Indies, took the cultivation of sugar cane, to take sugar in their cities and begin to distill rum.

Some say that rum comes from Martinique, the warm Caribbean island also known as the “archipelago of Ron.” Others, however, claim that the cane was planted many years in Greece before the meeting of two worlds and that the early settlers brought to the exotic islands of the Antilles. Whatever the version, the truth is that since then has rum letter citizenship Caribbean and the Canary Islands and universal passport, thanks to its versatility happy to achieve union with other drinks, juices and liquors, as happened to snuff, home Persian, which is news from Roman times on the “strange habit of entering through the nose some ground sheet”, and that sign however is typical of many Caribbean countries, like Cuba’s famous cigars with “Cohiba”.