101 Tropical Drinks
By Kim Haasarud and Alexandra Grablewski
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About this ebook
Whether you’re on the islands or in the backyard, there’s nothing like a cold, refreshing tropical cocktail for cooling down on a hot summer day. In this new addition to the popular 101 Cocktails series, Kim Haasarud offers the ultimate cocktail guide for summertime entertaining with classic tropical cocktails and plenty of new creations.
Inside, you’ll find traditional piña coladas and Mai Tais, plenty of refreshing punch bowl drinks, and classic cocktails remade with modern twists, like the Guava Basil Cooler or the Blackberry Pineapple Sidecar. Like the other books in the series, the recipes here are focused on using fresh fruit and herbs to create thrilling flavors.
- Includes 101 recipes illustrated with brilliant color photographs throughout
- Features recipes that emphasize fresh fruit and herbs, as well as inventive tweaks on classic tropical drinks
- Perfect for summertime get-togethers, backyard barbecues, beach parties, and tropical themed festivities any time of the year
Even if you can’t make it to a tropical island, you can turn any occasion into a roaring good time with 101 Tropical Drinks.
Kim Haasarud
Kim Haasarud is the founder of Liquid Architecture (Liquid-Architecture.com), a beverage consulting firm that creates specialty cocktails for clients such as the Four Seasons Maui, Wyndham Worldwide Hotels, Moet Hennessy, and SKYY Spirits. She conceives her signature cocktails much as an Alice Waters or a Wolfgang Puck would create a specialty dish, taking inspiration from market-fresh, high-quality ingredients. Her cocktails have appeared in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Wine Enthusiast to Cosmopolitan.
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101 Tropical Drinks - Kim Haasarud
The Rums
Unlike any other spirit category, rums play in the sandbox
really well. Meaning you can layer and mix them for added depth and flavor. While rums originated in the South Pacific (hence the reason they are so readily used in tropical and tiki drinks), they can be made anywhere in the world; the only restriction is that sugar cane is involved. The majority of rums are made from molasses, a by-product of making sugar. Others, however, are made straight from sugar cane juice. Below, I’ve listed rums by style and region to give you a better and bigger picture of how rums are made, classified, and characterized.
STYLES
WHITE/SILVER RUM. Usually clear. Most white and silver rums are aged, but are further distilled and filtered to remove the color. Great mixability.
GOLD/AMBER RUM. Light gold or amber. Usually aged for a few years. No regulation on how long it must be aged.
DARK RUM. Full bodied and darker in color. Quite a few are produced from pot stills and aged in oak. No regulation on how long it must be aged.
AGRICOLE RHUM. Appellation Controlee from Martinique, in the French West Indies. Made from distilled sugar cane juice. Light with a nice vegetal quality to it; buttery.
SPICED RUMS. A white, gold, or dark rum infused with spices and fruits.
FLAVORED RUMS. Rums (usually white rums) infused with flavors ranging from vanilla to coconut to mango.
ANEJO AND AGE-DATED RUMS. Blended aged rums. Age-dated rums, such as Bacardi 8, usually reflect the youngest aged rum in the blend.
RUM REGIONS
BARBADOS. Produces light and sweetish rums. One of the first regions that really started to put out a soft, smooth rum. Back in the eighteenth century, rum was well known as a fiery, almost unpalatable spirit. Barbados put rum on the map as a fine spirit. (George Washington actually requested a Barbados rum for his inauguration—that was the good stuff.) Current examples include Mount Gay and Foursquare.
CUBA. Light-bodied and crisp. One of the first regions yielding a very soft and smooth rum. Many rum connoisseurs associate Cuban rums (the predecessor to Puerto Rican rums) with being much like the rum version of a vodka: fairly neutral and smooth. Examples include Havana Club and Bacardi, established in Cuba, since moved to Puerto Rico.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Full-bodied, aged rums from column stills. Examples include Ron Matusalem and Brugal.
GUYANA. Rich, heavy, Demerara rums aged for long periods of time (25 years), often blended with lighter rums. Examples include El Dorado.
HAITI. Full-bodied rums. Aged in oak casks three or more years. Examples include Rhum Barbancourt.
JAMAICA. Rich and aromatic. Some can be funky, wild, and rich and others soft and smooth. Examples include Myers, Appleton Estate, and Wray & Nephew.
MARTINIQUE. Contains the largest number of rum distilleries in the eastern Caribbean. Mostly agricole rhums. Often aged in French brandy casks three or more years. One significant factor about rums from this island is that they were awarded the prestigious French label appellation d’origine controlee, previously reserved only for wines and cheeses. Rums from this region can only be called rhums. Because the majority of these rhums are agricole, they are light, somewhat vegetal, and even buttery. Examples include Neisson Rhum