Cocktail Advent: Day 10 – Sugar & Spice

For day number 10 we recommend this new offering from Drake and Morgan. Sugar and Spice, is a very merry combination of Chairman’s Spiced Rum, Antica Formula Sweet Vermouth, rich pomegranate molasses, old-fashioned bitters, sugar and prosecco, with a citrus orange twist. This delicious libation is the cocktail equivalent of a jolly festive wreath, so chuck […]

Cocktail Bar Review: Trader Vics, London

Ah, the Mai Tai – that fruity, flirty, rum-packed cocktail we all associate with sitting on a beach in some Polynesian setting, exotic flower firmly pinned behind our ear with not a care in the world. So where was this infamous cocktail invented? Well, rumour has it that, in 1944, the Trader Victor J. Bergeron […]

Music, BBQ and Rum – that’s what makes a jolly sailor

  It’s pretty hard not to enjoy a rum cocktail while reclining on some comfy outdoor seating and listening to summertime tunes in East London.You’d have to be pretty miserable, or have just walked in someone revealing the latest deaths on that GOT you haven’t watched yet. And when it’s Sailor Jerry spiced rum, and […]

Rooftop Rum and Festival Fun with Sailor Jerry and VISIONS

A weekend spent on an East London rooftop, sipping on spiced rum while a DJ with lots of K’s and  *’s in his name spins uber-cool tunes and everyone admires the body-art of the other attendees – it sounds like the making for the ultimate day festival. Could it get any better? Well, if you […]

Celebrate Cuban Independence Day with a BACARDÍ Cuba Libre

CUBA LIBRE – Make the perfect one In the world of cocktails, there isn’t a more refreshing or simpler drink than the Cuba Libre – or rum and cola with a squeeze of lime to the majority of us. But this humble rum, cola and lime is actually a cocktail with a legendary history. Inspired […]

The Caipirinha Cocktail

To make a Caipirinha cocktail you need Cachaca, and to make Cachaca you need sugar cane juice. Which is important, because it is what makes Cachaca a Cachaca, and not a rum. After that it follows a pretty similar path to rum, with the juice being fermented and then this liquid distilled. Sometimes the distilled liquid is […]