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We're used to Puerto Rican and Jamaican rums. Cruzan rum -- at least, what we've sampled -- has a noticeably different taste and doesn't seem to mix quite as well with Coke or certain fruit juices.

Do any of you have recipes for drinks made with Cruzan rum? The simpler, the better!

Thanks.

TM

What type of Cruzan are you using

Any of the flavored Cruzans mixed with Sprite or 7-Up with a slice of lime.

My favorites are Black Cherry or Coconut with Sprite Zero. Light and refreshing!

And less calories in the soda means you can drink more rum without bloating yourself out of your bikini.

3-ingredient drink that I like
Glass
Ice
Cruzan Rum

Put glass on counter or table (open side up to avoid spills)
Add some ice
Pour a liberal volume of rum over the ice.

But, as a junior rum connoisseur, it does have a unique taste from the other islands...then again, you can say that about most island-specific rums.

CRUZAN DARK RUM AND LEMONADE

pipanale wrote:Put glass on counter or table (open side up to avoid spills)
Add some ice
Pour a liberal volume of rum over the ice.

Thank you for your clear instructions Pip. Drink making can be so complex!:lol:

Lovermont

To me, once you get used to Cruzan, the popular PR rum that starts with a "B" begins to resemble paint thinner.

Over ice:
Cruzan Citrus
Ting or cranberry juice
Squeeze lime

jmq wrote:To me, once you get used to Cruzan, the popular PR rum that starts with a "B" begins to resemble paint thinner.

Over ice:
Cruzan Citrus
Ting or cranberry juice
Squeeze lime

oh god, I couldn't agree more, the Bacardi tastes like gasoline to me. Cruzan is really good rum, even the cheap stuff. But honestly, if you're mixing with juices or coke or fruit stuff, you can use the 2 year old Cruzan. If you really want a good drink where you can compare the flavors of the rum, you need to mix it lighter just with limes and go to the Cruzan Single Barrel....I believe it's aged around 12 years, that stuff is the balls!

Here's our favorite:

Use a tall glass
Cut a lime into 1/8's, squeeze 4 slices into the glass and then throw the squeezed slices of limes in.
1 shot of simple syrup
Use a musher to mush the limes and syrup
2 shots of Single Barrel
Put in like 4-5 ice cubes
Fill rest of glass with sparkling water
Stir it all together and enjoy.

ok, it's basically a mohito without the mint. We grow mint in our yard and add it in season, which by the way started like a week ago!

One other tidbit...Mt.Gay Extra Old rum from Barbados is pretty awesome also if you feel like spending another $8 or so.

One last item...sorry to ramble, but this is my favorite subject besides surfing (not a bad combo, surfing and rum, ehh??), but if you go to the Cruzan web site its really cool, they have many recipes on there with videos showing how to make them, the owner tries each one and says delicious right on cue! Check it out...

http://www.cruzanrum.com/

Cruzan coconut and pineapple juice.

Cruzan Black Cherry and diet Coke.

Cruzan Mango with pineapple and orange juice.

surfnh – thats a good idea mashing up some limes with some simple syrup and would be a good base for any rum or tequila drink.

Sounds like you would like the Clement rums (or “rhum”)

http://www.polishedpalate.com/press/clement.html

It is really hard to find (at least here in NJ and I also tried but couldnt find in STT), but the Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb is very smooth and tasty over rocks or as a great topper to your fav rum drink or even margarita.

Thanks to everybody for their tips on Cruzan rum. You all inspired me to check out some of your recipes.

I thought I'd start with the simplest recipe -- glass (open side up), ice, rum -- it tasted very good (hic).

Next, I tried it wih some Sprite, also in a glass. Thish one was putty good, too.

Then, I deh-shided it'd be gud to giv sum Black Sherry a sampll. Thish wuz uh liddl shweeeet bud ah lieked id 2.

Fienally, I pud sum Crannnnnberry jus an' squoooze up a lime an' thish wuz the bez one cuz . . . I dunno . . . I forgit!

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LOL!!

LOL! man, now its late and you're getting us all in the mood for a lime and coconut or something....this should be on the other "drinking too much" liquor post!

Regarding that Clement Rhum, looks really interesting, I'll have to keep an eye out for it locally. The other one I like for straight shots is Ron Zacapa rum from Guatemala, very smooth. But honestly, Cruzan Single Barrel is just as good as anything out there in my mind, love that stuff.

ok, rum is really interesting stuff. There is a great book about it called "and a Bottle of Rum" by Wayne Curtis. It's rumored to be invented originally in Barbados in the early 1600's, but there is no positive proof. But, the molasses which is a byproduct of the sugar refining process used to be dumped in the ocean. It was figured out that it could be distilled into rum, so as the colonies were settled alot of molasses was shipped up to be distilled into rum locally. In fact, at the time of the revolution (American that is), rum was the 2nd biggest industry in the colonies (shipbuilding was first). There were over 25 distilleries in Boston alone at that time.

So, my point is, rum is a really cool spirit and historic spirit for Americans. The molasses came from the Caribbean and went to the colonies for distilation, so this is a drink born in this region of the world. In my mind, nothing could be more interesting than making a spirit out of sugar, how easy is that?

ok, time for a drink!

Surfnh,

I read your post and immediately recalled the name of the industrial cycle you described. For you history buffs it was called "Triangle Trade". There are many cycles of product and goods that fit this description but one of the classics was that slaves were brought from Western Africa to the Caribbean where they were forced to labor on the sugar plantations. The ships carried the molasses to the Colonies on the eastern seaboard where it was distilled into rum. The rum was sold in Europe where some of the proceeds typically went to obtain more slaves for the process.

OK...that got a little too educational for a post about the enjoyment of rum! I just had the flashback and had to share! Now I need to sample the variations in the cabinet and report my findings!


Cruzan Single Barrel: check
Mt. Gay: check
Flor de Cana, 18 yr.: check (and awesome)

Exactly.... Lets bring it back to the rum....while the rum was in the slow sailing ships going to Europe, it got better! Aging in the barrels, right? That's how they figured out aging made it better.

I swear I can't make this stuff up!