Cocktails with rum: pirate drinks, changed

This drink is often served in the best cocktails - mixed with natural fruit juices, with carbonated drinks or with a variety of syrups, supplemented with crushed ice and served in glasses of "old feshend", rum will reveal all its unrivaled taste. Cocktails with rum perfectly match the taste with lemon juice, blue liqueur and coconut milk, and decorated with live flowers, paper umbrellas, Bengal lights or lemon slices, they turn into real works of art, decorating both the festive table and the stomach.

There are several varieties of rum that are best suited for making the best cocktails in the world. It is a light rum, usually called silver or white, which is a drink with a weak aroma and delicate taste. This is a golden rum (often called amber) - a liquid of a dark color, which is added to it by added caramel and long aging. And also this dark (or black) rum, aged in charred oak barrels, and which became saturated and fragrant as a result. A black rum cocktail is usually used in a hot kind, since the taste of this drink is best reflected, for example, by grog.

One of the most famous and popular drinks based on rum is the cocktail "Bacardi". To make it, you need to take white rum - necessarily "Bacardi" (75 ml.), Lemon juice (50 ml.), Grenadine - pomegranate syrup (10 ml.), Sugar syrup (25 ml.). Of the additional elements will need to take care of the shaker, ice, cocktail glass-saucer and decoration - a cocktail cherry. First of all, you will have to fill the ice with a shaker, then add all the remaining ingredients to it, shake it thoroughly, stirring. Overflow into the glass, this drink, like many cocktails with rum, should be decorated and served chilled.

Among other things, rum, used for cocktails, can be of different strengths. On average, this drink has a strength of about 40%, however, depending on the aging period, rum strong can have a saturation of 75% or more. Such a mature rum is valued more than other varieties - in its name there is the word "anejo", which means that it is best to use this drink in its pure form. The best rum cocktails are obtained from the rum elixir with a minimum strength (30%), sweet, clearly expressed taste, but sometimes you can pay attention to flavored rum. This substance with the smell and taste notes of various fruits is very often included in the most exotic drinks.

However, fruit shades of taste can be introduced and other ingredients in the original or classic cocktails with rum. For example, you can prepare a beverage with components such as rum (50 ml.), Pineapple and orange juice (15 ml each ), peach liquor (15 ml.). In addition, this cocktail should include fresh fruit (any), a few drops of grenadine (pomegranate syrup) and a few slices of fruit for decoration. At the first stage of cooking it is necessary to cut your favorite fruits and put them on the bottom of a glass - highball. Further all the other ingredients are combined in a shaker, supplemented with ice and mixed, after which they overflow to the fruit. Ready cocktail can be decorated with slices of fruit.

It should be noted that all the cocktails with rum experts recommend not to leave without decoration. It does not matter what will be chosen for this - you can use vegetables and fruits, halves of berries, zest of citrus and greens (mint, for example). Excellent whipped cream, grated chocolate and caramel look, "rims" made on the edges of glasses of spices. In some cases, bright umbrellas and cute twisted tubes will be appropriate, and sometimes the only successful option will be an engagement ring.