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4 of the Strongest Cocktails You Can Order at a Bar

VinePair

The cocktail combines equal parts vodka, rum, tequila, gin, and triple sec ironically containing almost every ingredient in the book besides tea. The recipe calls for light rum, dark rum, and overproof rum, not to mention apricot brandy and grenadine. Either way, the drink is truly a powerhouse of booze.

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A Tiki-ish Daiquiri Colada With Coconut and Apricot

Cocktails with Suderman

This year, for example, we have looked at a handful of drinks involving apricot booze — both liqueur and brandy. So before the summer closed, I felt compelled to write about the Tradewinds, a devastatingly delicious tiki-ish drink that combines coconut cream and apricot liqueur. The themed approach has several advantages.

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The Cocktail College Podcast: The (Re)Missionary’s Downfall

VinePair

Few tiki and tropical drinks are as light, herbal, and dangerously sessionable as the Missionarys Downfall. It achieves this profile by straying from the genres usual path, swapping out heavy syrups and layered rum blends for pineapple, mint, peach brandy , and, of course, a little rum. TEQUILA 40% ABV.

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The Top 10 Rums of 2023

Drinkhacker

Top shelf rum is becoming easier and easier to find — and harder and harder to pin down into a cohesive top 10 list. Sadly, many of the price tags on these rums are fairly luxe — with bottles nearly 30 years old, single barrels, one-off experiments, or all of the above. 500 [ BUY IT NOW FROM RESERVEBAR ] 3. 99 proof. $75

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The Frozen Drink That Should Have Been the Star of ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Finale

VinePair

The combination of white rum , peach brandy, honey syrup, lime juice, pineapple chunks, and mint leaves needs to be blended together, meaning Timothy would have had a reason to use the obnoxiously loud appliance. It just all would have been so perfect.

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The Top 10 Summer Cocktails of All Time

Drinkhacker

Mai Tai The story of the Mai Tai is the story of tiki, one of the most iconic drinks – if not the most iconic drink – to come out of ‘40s rum culture. Designed by Trader Vic himself in 1944 in his Oakland watering hole, it’s a deceptively simple drink that, nonetheless, is invariably bastardized outside of high-end and tiki bars. (If

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These San Diego Bars Are Celebrating National Rum Day With Drink Specials

PubClub

This is a rum cocktail which is something to drink on National Rum Day, Aug. National Rum Day is Aug. 16 and these San Diego bars are marking the occasion with rum drinks and specials. Join the Caribe Cartel by taking a “flight” to the rum region of your choice, earning pins and merchandise.

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