5 Minutes of Rum episode 19: Plantation Original Dark rum, crushed ice, and the Queen’s Park Swizzle.

Episode links:

Plantation

Elevage

Waring ice crusher

Quararibea turbinata

Quararibea turbinata (USDA)

Queen’s Park Swizzle at RumDood’s site

Trader Vic's Tiki Party

A plastic swizzle is still effective, if not truly the real thing.

Queen’s Park Swizzle, per Trader Vic’s Tiki Party book

1 oz light / silver rum (Don Q Cristal or Cruzan light)
1 oz dark rum (Plantation dark rum)
1 oz 151-proof rum (Cruzan 151)
1/4 oz fresh squeezed lime juice, with a half lime shell reserved (I’m using 1/2 oz)
Dash of simple syrup (I’m using 1/2 oz)
Dash of Angostura bitters

Fill a Collins glass with crushed ice. Add all ingredients except for the half lime shell. Swizzle with swizzle stick or a bar spoon and allow the ice to partially dissolve. Re-fill with more crushed ice and continue to swizzle until the glass frosts over. Add lime shell and top with more crushed ice if needed. Garnish with mint sprig. For an alternate fancee presentation, omit 151 rum and bitters until the cocktail is built and glass is frosted over. Top with 151 and bitters, add mint, and serve. Cocktail should be stirred before drinking. Or not, and finish strong with the overproof on ice.

Queen’s Park Swizzle, 5 Minutes of Rum endorsed version:

3 oz Plantation Original Dark rum
1/2 oz fresh squeezed lime juice, with a half lime shell reserved
1/2 oz simple syrup
2 dashes of Angostura bitters

Fill a Collins glass with crushed ice. Add all ingredients except for the half lime shell. Swizzle with swizzle stick or a bar spoon and allow the ice to partially dissolve. Re-fill with more crushed ice and continue to swizzle until the glass frosts over. Add lime shell and top with more crushed ice if needed. Garnish with mint sprig and 2 more dashes of Angostura bitters.

Queen’s Blood Swizzle

When blood oranges are in season, try this variant.

1 oz silver puerto rican rum
1 oz Plantation dark rum
1 oz Lemon Hart 151 rum
1/2 oz fresh squeezed blood orange juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters

Fill a Collins glass with crushed ice. Add all ingredients. Swizzle with swizzle stick or a bar spoon and allow the ice to partially dissolve. Re-fill with more crushed ice and continue to swizzle until the glass frosts over. Top with more crushed ice as needed. Garnish with mint sprig and peel from blood orange.

5 Minutes of Rum episode 18: US distillery Montanya’s Platino rum, a brief mention of bitters, and The Man with the Golden Rum.

Episode links:

Montanya Distillers
Montanya Platino rum
Distilling process
Interview with Karen Hoskin
Distillery video (YouTube)
Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Aromatic Bitters

The Man With the Golden Rum

1 oz Montanya Platino
1 oz Appleton VX
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz white grapefruit juice (fresh if available)
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz apricot brandy (Marie Brizard if available, otherwise use Bols)
Dash of Fee’s Old Fashioned Aromatic Bitters (use caution, a few drops is all that's needed)

Shake with ice cubes and pour unstrained into a double old-fashioned glass or a tiki mug. I didn’t garnish it at the seminar, but a sprig of fresh mint would not be unwelcome.

5 Minutes of Rum episode 17: How about a nice holiday punch?

Episode links:

David Wondrich's Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl
5 Minutes of Rum episode 1
5 Minutes of Rum episode 2
5 Minutes of Rum episode 3
5 Minutes of Rum episode 6
5 Minutes of Rum episode 8

Lemur tea

Ingredients

Cup of Cheer

1 oz Coruba dark Jamaican rum
1 oz Plantation 5 year Barbados rum
1 oz lime juice
1/2 oz honey mix
1/2 oz demerara sugar syrup
1 oz lemur tea (Trader Joe's Vanilla & Cinnamon Black Tea, with a lemur on the box)

For a single serving, shake with ice cubes in a boston shaker and pour unstrained into a double old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

For a punch, multiply each ingredient by the total servings desired. Serve from a bowl with an ice block. Ice the punch cups individually when serving. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

5 Minutes of Rum episode 16: Zaya rum, cinnamon syrup and La Trinidad.

Episode links:

Infinium spirits
Zaya rum
Zaya rum (Hand Selected Spirits)
Zaya (Ministry of Rum) 
BG Reynolds cinnamon syrup
Kaiser Penguin cinnamon syrup
Bottles for syrups at Cost Plus World Market

Ceylon cinnamon.

Cinnamon syrup

3 cinnamon sticks (ceylon if available)

2 cups sugar

1 cup water

Break up cinnamon sticks into small pieces. Combine with sugar and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, heat until sugar dissolves. Cover and simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from heat, leave covered. Let sit for 2 hours. Strain through metal strainer or cheesecloth. Pour into syrup bottle and add 0.5 oz light rum to help stabilize. Store in refrigerator. 

La Trinidad

2 oz Zaya rum

1 oz fresh lime juice

1/2 oz cinnamon syrup

1 dash Angostura bitters

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Shake well with ice cubes. Strain into a cocktail glass.

5 Minutes of Rum episode 15: Smith & Cross Jamaican rum, pimento liqueur, and Black River Punch. 

Episode links:

Haus Alpenz

Smith & Cross Traditional Jamaican rum

Allspice (wikipedia)

Aeropress

Black River Punch article on Lowbrow Literati

Beachbum Berry Remixed

5 Minutes of Rum E1

5 Minutes of Rum E6 

5 Minutes of Rum E8 

5 Minutes of Rum E9 

5 Minutes of Rum E11 

Allspice tree

Pimento Liqueur

1/4 cup dried whole allspice berries

1 (one) 750 ml bottle of light Virgin Islands rum

2 cups demerara sugar

1 cup water

Grind the allspice berries to the consistency of ground coffee. Combine in a saucepan with 1 cup of the light rum and bring just to a boil. Remove from heat and stir. Funnel into an empty rum bottle with grounds and fill 3/4 of the way with more of the light rum. Cap and let it sit for 2 weeks, shaking once a day.

After 2 weeks, remove from bottle and strain through cheesecloth. Then filter 2 more times through unbleached paper coffee filters or twice through an aeropress. Make a demerara sugar syrup with the 2 cups sugar and 1 cup water. Heat until sugar is dissolved. Combine equal parts of this sugar and the pimento rum, bottle, and let sit for at least a month. 

Black River Punch

1 oz fresh lemon juice

1 oz demerara sugar syrup

1/2 oz falernum

1/4 oz pimento liqueur

3 oz Smith & Cross Jamaican rum

2 oz black tea

3/4 cup crushed ice.

Combine all ingredients and flash blend/mix for 5 seconds. Pour into a tall glass or tiki mug and fill with ice cubes. Garnish with fresh grated nutmeg.

This recipe can be scaled up as a punch for a large gathering. The simplest way is to just multiple each ingredient by how many total servings you want. If you want to arrive at a specific fluid total, you'll need to do a little math. For example, to make 1.5 gallons (192 oz), divide the end total ounces desired by the amount of 1 serving (8.5 oz), or ~22 in this case. When scaling up for a punch, regardless of how, omit the ice. Combine the rest of the ingredients in a large vessel (a punch bowl works nicely) and pour into cups filled with ice like a gentleman. A punch cup serving is typically about 4-5 ounces over ice. 

Substitutions: 1.5 oz Smith & Cross and 1.5 oz Appleton VX, or 3 oz Appleton VX, depending on your taste. 1.5 o Smith & Cross and 1.5 oz Batavia Arrack is also a fine choice. 

5 Minutes of Rum episode 14: Gold Virgin Islands rum, Cruzan Aged Dark rum, homemade grenadine, and the Blood of the Kapu Tiki. 

Episode links: 

5 Minutes of Rum substitutions

Cruzan rum

Cruzan Aged Dark Rum

Cruzan distillery article from Ministry of Rum

BG Reynolds hibiscus grenadine

A Mountain of Crushed Ice hibiscus grenadine

Jeffrey Morgenthaler grenadine

Beachbum Berry Remixed

Tiki+ app

Bottles for syrups at Cost Plus World Market

Bosko art

Cruzan Aged Dark rum

Cruzan Aged Dark rum

Pomegranate

Pomegranate

Left: Hibiscus Grenadine from A Mountain of Crushed Ice.

Right: Grenadine from Jeffrey Morgenthaler. 

The Blood of the Kapu TIki

The Blood of the Kapu TIki

Mugs by Bosko.

 Hibiscus Grenadine from A Mountain of Crushed Ice

Grenadine from Jeffrey Morgenthaler 

Blood of the Kapu TIki

3 oz fresh lime juice

3 oz white grapefruit juice

3 oz orange juice

3 oz grenadine

3 oz simple syrup

10 oz Gold Virgin Islands rum

1/2 tsp. Pernod

3 dashes Angostura bitters

Fill a pitcher with crushed ice. Add all ingredients. Stir until the pitcher frosts over. Pour into glasses or tiki mugs. Serves 4-6. Recipe can be cut to a single serving by dividing each ingredient by 3 (use 6 drops of Pernod). 

5 Minutes of Rum episode 13: Silver Dominican Rum, Ron Matusalem Platino, and the Mojito. 

Episode links: 

5 Minutes of Rum substitutions page

E2, silver Puerto Rican rum

Ron Matusalem

Ron Matusalem Platino

Ron Matusalem Platino rum at Ministry of Rum

"And A Bottle Of Rum" by Wayne Curtis

iSi Soda (seltzer) siphon

Ron Matusalem Platino

"And A Bottle Of Rum" by Wayne Curtis

Collins glass (14 oz.)

iSi Soda Siphon.

Mojito

Into a 14oz Collins glass, add:

1 ounce demerara sugar syrup

1 1/2 ounces lime juice (fresh!)

6 fresh mint leaves

Gently muddle this together in the glass. The goal is similar to spanking the mint - you want to break some cells to release the mint's oil but not shred it.

Add:

2 ounces Dominican Republic silver rum (Ron Matusalem Platino)

Stir to combine.

Fill 3/4 of the way with ice, stir until glass frosts.

Top with soda. Stir again to combine.

5 Minutes of Rum episode 12: El Dorado 21, El Dorado 12, and the J Wray & Ting. 

Episode links: 

J Wray & Nephew official

Ting (wikipedia)

Hi-Time Wine Cellars

Demerara Distillers

El Dorado 21

El Dorado 12

What happened in 1992?

1992 info from wikipedia

El Dorado 21 review on Inu A Kena

Ting soda.

J Wray & Ting.

El Dorado 21.

El Dorado 21 in the glass.

El Dorado 21.

El Dorado 21.

El Dorado 12.

El Dorado 12.

El Dorado 12.

El Dorado 12.

El Dorados 21 and 12.

J Wray & Ting

To a collins glass filled with ice cubes, add:

2 oz Wray & Nephew Overproof White Rum

4 oz Ting soda

Stir to combine. Squeeze lime wedge over glass if desired. Garnish with lime wheel. 

5 Minutes of Rum episode 11: Wray & Nephew overproof rum, falernum, and The Hawaiian Eye.

Episode links:

 J Wray & Nephew official

J Wray & Nephew UK site

Wray & Nephew at the Ministry of Rum

Ting (wikipedia)

Velvet Falernum

BG Reynolds falernum

Fee Brothers falernum

SnugHarbor falernum

Falernum recipe at PostProhibition.com

Stopper bottles for syrups

Beachbum Berry Remixed