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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

MxMo: Wintermission




Wintermission

This round of Mixology Monday (graciously hosted at Kaiser Penguin) fits my week like a glove. At work, a huge acquisition and an equally important litigation absolutely drained my free time --working past midnight every night, and missing meals, classes and workouts. I was craving a strong drink and some down time.
Now I am out of the woods. I also get the next week off to spend in Florida, and I have certainly had to earn my intermission. And now it's time to think about that drink.
The Longboat Key Iced Tea was a tempting submission, but treads dangerously close to the no-LIT rule. Looking forward to dropping a few degrees of latitude, I chose a sunny drink that had a kick lurking beneath its fruity flavors. Now let's all take a...


Wintermission

1 oz Bacardi 151 rum
1 oz raspberry rum
1 oz gold rum
1 oz creme de cassis
2 oz pineapple juice

Shake ingredients together with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

3 comments:

Dr. Bamboo said...

I love the multicolored rim!

By the way, any leads on who makes the raspberry rum?

jimmyp said...

Shawn,

That recipe looks really sweet, is it? Does the pineapple tone down all the sweet flavors? Have you tried it with some citrus? I wonder what that woud do? That Drink looks mighty tasty, and the photo is great! Cheers.

Shawn said...

Thanks DB. The raspberry rum is by Bacardi, labeled as Bacardi Razz. I love the stuff.

Jimmy, I think citrus would be a nice touch, perhaps a little lemon to round out the flavor. The drink as written is fairly sweet, maybe a 6 or 7 on a scale of 1 (vodka martini) to 10 (slushy drink served from spinning machine in a Bourbon street bar).

Cheers!