TheSpiritsBusiness.com says French beverage company Cognac Ferrand has released the a new bottle/label redesign for their Plantation Dark Rum and announced that Identity Drinks Brand will now be handling UK distribution.
Plantation Original Dark Rum’s recipe and bottle have been altered to refresh the product and its presentation. The original blend included rums from Trinidad & Tobago. Original Dark now also includes rich, high ester, pot still Jamaican rum which Ferrand says makes it more suitable for cocktails.
“I have Plantation in my blood, quite literally, so I couldn’t be happier to be to be working with and the Ferrand products again.” – Nick Rodgers, founder of Identity Drinks Brands.
FoodAndWine.com suggests three rum punch recipes that take these cocktails to the next level. These recipes highlight the flavors of their respective rums and make good use of lime and Angostura bitters.
Planter’s Punch (By The Pitcher)
Ingredients:
8 oz Appleton Estate Rare Blend 12 Year Old
4 oz fresh lime juice
2 oz grenadine
8 dashes Angostura bitters
Instructions:
Over ice, combine all ingredients into a large cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a ice-filled pitcher. If you do not have a big shaker, you can divide the mix into two batches; or make it a frozen punch and run everything a blender. Serve with four glasses and garnish with lime wheels.
Front Porch Punch
Ingredients:
8 oz Brugal Extra Dry Silver Rum
3 oz fresh lime juice
2 oz simple syrup
12 basil leaves
Instructions:
In a big cocktail shaker, muddle 12 thin slices of cucumber. Add ice plus ingredients. Again, if you don’t have a shaker big enough, do this in two batches. Shake and double-strain through your cocktail’s own strainer and a fine mesh strainer into an ice-filled pitcher. Serve with four glasses and garnish with lime wheels, basil and cucumber slices.
Thai Pirate Punch
Ingredients:
8 oz Mount Gay Rum
2 oz fresh lime juice
2 oz fresh lemon juice
3 oz Demerara simple syrup
4 dashes Angostura bitters
Instructions:
Cut two three-inch stalks of lemongrass and slice them finely. Add to a big cocktail shaker along with four torn-up kaffir lime leaves, and muddle. Add ice plus ingredients to shaker. Shake and double-strain through your cocktail’s own strainer and a fine mesh strainer into an ice-filled pitcher. Serve with four glasses and garnish with lemongrass and Kaffir lime.
Liquor.com says there’s a Rum Revolution going on in the Southeastern United States highlighting five great Southern rums:
– Belonger’s Rum (Charleston, South Carolina)
– Prichard’s Sweet Georgia Belle Peach Mango Rum (Kelso, Tennessee)
– Railean Reserve XO Rum (San Leon, Texas)
– Siesta Key Spiced Rum (Sarasota, Florida)
– Silver Fox Premium Virginia Light Rum (Norfolk, Virginia)
Bacardi has promoted Fabio Di Giammarco to the new role of global vice president for Bacardi rum mere weeks after Dmitry Ivanov stepped down as the group’s global CMO.
Balcones Texas Rum will soon be available in the United Kingdom.
Described as “round and full of flavour” Balcones Texas Rum is double distilled and bottled at 63.9% abv…Fruit flavours combined with viscous notes of vanilla and caramel are said to be present on the palate, designed to “excite both the rum purist and the committed whiskey drinker”.
Balcones new distillery site is scheduled to be fully operational by January 2016. (The Spirits Business)
