Why not bring a taste of the sunshine back with you from your Bermuda holiday and recreate some of their favourite cocktails at home. Here are just a few of their rum based classics.
Dark and Stormy
Rum plays an important part in Bermudian cocktails and is specially blended on the island to produce various colours and strengths. Bermuda's most famous of blenders is Gosling's who have been perfecting the art since arriving on the Island from England in the early 1800's. Their rum is used in a variety of cocktails, the most famous of which is the Dark and Stormy, which uses their popular dark rum - Gosling's Black Seal - named after the black wax seal on the bottle.
The Dark and Stormy is a high ball cocktail that's really simple and simply refreshing. It is made by filling a tall glass with ice, adding 4 to 5 oz of Gosling's Stormy Ginger Beer and topping with Gosling's Black Seal Rum. It's finished with a squeeze of lime and adding the wedge to the glass. This is one of the only cocktails to have been trademarked, meaning if it isn't made with Gosling's Black Seal Rum and Stormy Ginger Beer it isn't a classic "Dark and Stormy".
The Rum Swizzle
The Rum Swizzle is Bermuda's number one cocktail and is a mixture of rum and fruit juice. It's so popular that many locals have developed their own way of mixing this drink which is handed down through the generations. A traditional recipe for a Rum Swizzle is to start by filling a pitcher one third full of crushed ice. To this is added 4 oz dark rum, 4 oz of gold rum, 5 oz of both pineapple and orange juice, 3/4 oz of grenadine (or 2 oz of Bermuda falernum if you can get hold of it) and 6 dashes of angostura bitters. The mix then needs to be churned vigorously to produce a froth and then strained into a martini glass. Traditionally the Rum Swizzle is frothed with a Bermuda swizzle stick - a stick that ends in three prongs cut from an allspice bush.
The Bermudian
The Bermudian is a refreshing rum and mint based drink - it has got hints of a mojito but uses additional flavours of pineapple. Make this using a cocktail shaker. First muddle (crush) a couple of sprigs of fresh mint in the shaker, then add ice, 2 oz gold rum, 4 oz pineapple puree, 1 oz grand marnier and a good squeeze of fresh lime. Give it a good shake and serve straight up in a martini glass garnished with a twist of lime.
Bermuda Breeze
A thirst quenching long drink, the colour of the Bermuda Breeze is reminiscent of the soft pink beaches that run the length of the island. The distinct colour of this drink comes from combining cranberry juice and grapefruit juice with 1½ oz dark rum.Fill a tall glass with ice, add the rum and top up with equal parts of cranberry and grapefruit juice, followed with a splash of grenadine. Garnish the rim of the glass with an orange wheel.
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