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Celebrate with the JBF Bramble

Richard Melick — Fri, 13 May 2022 22:44:35 +0000

This year, the James Beard Foundation hosted its 25^th annual Awards gala in Chicago, where winners were bestowed with what is considered the highest honor for food and beverage professionals. A gathering of the country’s top chefs, mixologists and restaurateurs, the ball room was filled with some of the worlds more incredible, unique, and creative minds in the industry. This year, BACARDÍ was tasked with creating a cocktail to help ring in the 25th celebration of culinary achievement. Made with BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Maestro de Ron, a super-premium mixing rum, lemon juice and simple syrup, topped with blackberry purée, we got our hands on the recipe and wanted to share it. Not only is this drink incredibly bright and refreshing, the ingredients are easy to come by and can easily be prepared in advance. Give this rum based cocktail a shot and keep enjoying Drink Week here at FactoryTwoFour.

JBF Bramble

Ingredients

2 parts BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Maestro de Ron
¾ parts lemon juice
¾ parts simple syrup
¾ parts of blackberry purée

Directions

Shake all ingredients vigorously with plenty ice, strain into a highball glass then pack it with crushed ice and drizzle blackberry purée on top. Garnish with a blackberry skewer and basil leaf.

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The Perfect Triple Crown Drink: Sour Seer Sucker Mojito

Richard Melick — Sun, 08 May 2022 05:29:28 +0000

The Triple Crown quickly approaches with the standard big hats, seer suckers and juleps, as well as the celebrations surrounding the more social than race focused day on May 2^nd. So, whether you’re throwing your own viewing celebration or attending the highly anticipated day at the races, we think it might be time to take your drink choice to the next level. Working with our friends over at BACARDI Rum, we think we found the perfect mixture in the Sour Seer Sucker Mojito, a drink that hits the refreshing note often enjoyed in a julep, while bringing in a sour note to round the full drink off. What’s even better is this drink can get it’s own self serve station so guests can make it as sour or minty as they would like as they enjoy the races. So tip your hat, rock your seersucker and cheers with this race inspired rum cocktail recipe below.

Ingredients:

2 parts BACARDÍ Superior Rum
4 lime wedges
12 fresh mint leaves
2 heaped tsp of caster sugar
1 part soda water/club soda
Sprig of fresh mint to garnish

Directions:

Gently press together the limes & sugar. Bruise the mint leaves by clapping them between your palms, rub them on the rim of the glass and drop them in. Next, half fill the glass with crushed ice, add the BACARDÍ Superior rum & stir. Top up with crushed ice, a splash of soda and a sprig of mint.

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It’s Time to Celebrate Rum

Richard Melick — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:41:07 +0000

It’s time to celebrate rum. This sweet, molasses based spirit is the subject of history. parties, late nights and early mornings, and ultimately delicious drinks. And that’s why we love it. The deep flavors invoke a feeling and memory; the taste of the Caribbean. It’s the perfect spirit for the hot weathers, lazy days, and parties. First distilled in the 17th century on sugarcane plantations, this liquor has been used to keep spirits high on long voyages, as currency by pirates, and off course feeding the masses during spring break in the Caribbean. It has a fanciful history in this world, and it’s about time it was honored in a way befitting of a legend. Luckily, National Rum Day is coming up on August 16th.

To help celebrate, we wanted to share two new recipes for our fans to enjoy this weekend. While we could go on about the fundamentals of enjoying the rum neat or in simple cocktails, we gave both of these drinks a shot and felt that the spirit was well defined and enhanced in their own, unique ways. Working with BACARDI and Mount Gay Rums, we have for you two recipes, one using the clear rum Bacardi Superior, and the other using the dark Black Barrel rum from Mount Gay. What better way to celebrate than with a drink or two and different types of rum?

The BACARDI Guayaba Arabica

1 ½ parts Bacardi superior
1 part Goya guava nectar
¾ part fresh squeeze lime juice
¾ part coffee scented simple syrup*
5 cilantro leafs
1 pinch of salt

Instructions: Place all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with plenty of ice and shake until the ingredients are well combined, then strain the mixture through a small mesh strainer or tea strainer into a cocktail glass. Garnish with freshly grated espresso bean.

* To make the coffee scented simple syrup, bring 1 ½ cups of water to a boil, blanch 1 cup of espresso beans into the water for approximately 30 seconds, strain the espresso beans, add 1 cup of sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves.

The Mount Gay Rum Fish House Punch

Preparation – The night before serving, freeze two large blocks of ice. Either a quart container or something larger will work.
Ingredients

1/2 cups sugar
2 quarts water
1 quart lemon juice
2 quarts Mount Gay Black Barrel (w tried it with Extra Old as we drank all the Black Barrel)
1 quart Remy VSOP
4 ounces peach brandy – Sub Peach

Instructions: In a large bowl, stir together 1 quart water and the sugar until dissolved. Add Rum, Cognac, Lemon Juice and remaining Water. Stir until the color is consistent. Add the large blocks of ice as you can procure. Let the punch sit in the fridge for 20 minutes before serving. Garnish with Lemon Wheels.

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