Carpe Bacardi!

National Rum Day 8/16/13

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Jim

It’s almost here! Get some rum and get ready for some fun.

We’re not sure why this is a national day but we certainly have no complaints.

Alert your bartenders and bar owners! Most of them will be unaware of this momentous occasion. We need rum drink specials and flaming rum drinks and rum drinks that haven’t even been invented yet.

Here’s a few recipes to get started.

Rum Berry

2.25 oz Flor de Caña 7 Year Grand Reserve
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1.25 oz simple syrup
1.5 oz diced long cucumber
1 large strawberry

Instructions: Muddle cucumber and strawberry in cocktail shaker until the strawberry is pulverized. Add remaining ingredients and shake vigorously with ice. Strain over fresh ice into old fashioned glass. Prop slice of fresh strawberry onto rim of glass.

Rumjito

Rumijto

1.5 oz Flor de Caña 7 Year Grand Reserve Rum
1 oz CAMUS VS Cognac
1 tbs superfine sugar
4 sprigs of fresh mint
Lime wedges
Tonic water

Instructions: Muddle mint leaves, superfine sugar and lime in a mixing glass. Add Flor de Caña, CAMUS and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake. Strain into a tall glass filled with ice. Top with tonic water and garnish with a sprig of mint. Sugarcane syrup can be used to replace superfine sugar.

Find even more recipes here on our Recipe Page…

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Bacardi’s 150th Anniversary

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Jim

Carpe Bacardi!

Bacardi will be celebrating their 150th anniversary on Saturday 2/4/2011.

So will we!

When Bacardi family members gather over the next week to celebrate the company’s 150th anniversary, they will crack open limited-edition, $2,000 bottles of an aged rum blend made especially for the occasion.

A fitting toast would celebrate how far the company has come, particularly in the last two decades. During that time Bacardi Limited has transformed itself from a family-owned company known almost exclusively for its namesake rum to a multi-branded spirits company featuring a collection of well-known premium brands ranging from vodka to gin, scotch and tequila.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/30/2612831/evolution-of-bacardi-company-marks.html#storylink=cpy

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Contest! What’s in a Devil’s Triangle?

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Jim

So I got to thinking about drink names and realized that that no one ever heard of a Devil’s Triangle. What a great name for a rum drink. Help come up with a recipe.

No restrictions, but a few things I think it needs…

3 kinds of booze, mostly rum

No pink drinks

If it comes on fire that’s a big bonus

I’m going to find some great Bacardi swag to give away to whoever can come up with a great recipe that can be made by a mediocre bartender. I’ll run this contest until we have at least ten entries.

Not to be confused with the Bermuda Triangle, or this one that most bikers and sports car drivers dream about…

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A Bacardi Cocktail without Bacardi?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Jim

Subject of great controversy thrugh the years, the Bacardi Cocktail was involved in a ruling by the New York Supreme Court on April 28, 1936. This ruling required any drink sold as a Bacardi Cocktail to actually contain Bacardi. It seems bartenders were using lesser rums and creating inferior drinks. They said the Bacardi Cocktail was simply a daiquiri with grenadine instead of of sugar.

The Bacardi Cocktail became immensely popular after prohibition, on a par with recent popularity of the Cosmopolitan. Many bars began serving these cocktails without their namesake ingredient. One of these establishments was the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, which was promptly sued by the Bacardi company, resulting in the ruling that Bacardi Cocktails must contain Bacardi. To this day this is the only cocktail afforded this protection.

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My First Mojito

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Jim

Many years ago I was sitting at the Schooner Wharf bar in Key West next to a retired Navy admiral. It was hot and humid and his drink looked delicious. I’m a big Bacardi and Coke drinker so when he told me it was a Mojito and was mostly Bacardi I said “Yeah, let’s have some!” Loved it! Very refreshing sitting there at an outdoor bar watching the action in the harbor.

So after about six of them I leave and start cruising down Duval Street. There’s a little side alley with a courtyard at the end. Down this alley is a Cuban bar with Cuban bartenders. So the bartender starts making my Mojito using well rum. I start protesting and she says, very indignantly, “Mister, do I come to your job and tell you how to work?” Needless to say I only had one drink there.

You never forget your first.

Here’s the view from the Schooner Wharf upstairs bar.

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