Cocktailia

Mojito

• 6 to 8 fresh mint leaves
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• 2 ounces light rum
• Club soda
• Mint sprig for garnish

Lightly muddle mint leaves with syrup, lime…

Missing Link

• 1 1/2 ounces rum
• 1 ounce Cointreau
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake until cold. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

This recipe follows the pattern…

Mai Tai

• 2 ounces Jamaican rum
• 1/2 ounce orange curacao
• 1/2 ounce orgeat syrup
• 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
• Mint sprig for garnish

Combine all liquid ingredients in an ice-filled shaker and shake until cold. Strain into…

Peach-Ginger Cocktail

• 3 slices fresh peach
• 2 dashes peach bitters
• 2 ounces brandy
• 1 ounce light rum
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
• Splash of ginger syrup

Muddle the peach slices and bitters in a mixing glass until…

Back from Paris now and I’ve got a couple good articles to write up. We were there for a week and a half and, among other things, made time to stop by two world-class Parisian bars, the Bar Hemingway…

La Floridita Daiquiri

• 1 1/2 ounces rum
• 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
• 1/4 ounce simple syrup
• 1/4 ounce maraschino liqueur
• Splash of fresh grapefruit juice
• Lime wedge for garnish

Combine liquid ingredients in an ice-filled cocktail shaker.…

Nevada

• 1 1/2 ounces rum
• 1/2 ounce fresh grapefruit juice
• 1/3 ounce fresh lime juice
• 1/4 ounce simple syrup
• Dash of Angostura bitters
• Lime wedge

Combine all the liquid ingredients in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake until…

What better use for the Cuban rum Thatchery gave me than Cubas libres?

Cuba Libre

• 2 ounces rum
• Coca-Cola
• Lime

Pour two ounces of rum (Cuban, if possible) into an ice-filled highball glass. Fill…

Thatchery’s roommate spent a little time in Havana recently and brought back some rum and cigars for those of us deprived of such things due to the stupid US embargo on Cuba. Not being a smoker, I didn’t try any…

Presidente

• 1 1/2 ounces white rum
• 3/4 ounce orange curacao
• 3/4 ounce dry vermouth
• Dash of grenadine

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass.

This drink was created in Havana in the…