RumFest 2005 & the RumFest Cocktail Challenge

[KatieLoeb]

unions belong in the grapes of wrath not new york hotels.

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Yeah, well. That pretty much sums it up.

Meanwhile those bartenders, if they can call themselves that, deserve a good

[M.X.Hassett]

Well for what it is worth these are the winning recipes:

RUM CATEGORY:

Adult Film Starr

by Sam Ross

Ingredients:

- 2 oz. Starr African Rum

- 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice

- 1 1/2 oz Licor 4

- 1 1/2 oz Simple Syrup

- 3 pieces of cucumber

- Nutmeg

Muddle cucumber in a cocktail shaker. Add all ingredients except for nutmeg and shake with ice. Strain into a double rocks glass over cracked ice. Garnish with cucumber spears and grated nutmeg.

RHUM CATEGORY:

The 1838

by Bobby 'G' Gleason of the Rio, Las Vegas

Ingredients:

- 1 1/2 oz Neisson Rhum Agricole Reserve Speciale

- 1/4 oz Yellow Chartreuse

- 1/4 oz Pineapple Juice

- Juices of 1/2 Lime

- Garnish: Pineapple parrot and sugar cane stir stick

Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice until well blended. Strain into a double highball glass over loosely packed crushed ice. Garnish with a sugar cane stir stick and a pineapple parrot.

CACHACA CATEGORY:

Moda Martini

by John Mautone of Dylan Prime NY

Ingredients:

- 2 oz Beleza Pura Super Premium Cachaca

- 2 oz Banana or Raspberry Rum

- 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice

- 1 1/2 oz Pineapple Juice

- Garnish: mint leaf

Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a large mint leaf in the center of glass.

Edit: It would be nice to know the recipes for the other cocktails, that way we could taste the cocktails as they were meant to be tasted.

Edited December 5, 2005 by M.X.Hassett (log)