This drink is most often served as part of the best cocktails - mixed with natural fruit juices, carbonated drinks or with a variety of syrups, complemented with crushed ice and served in old-fashioned glasses, rum will reveal all its unsurpassed taste. Cocktails with rum are perfectly combined to taste with lemon juice, blue liquor and coconut milk, and decorated with fresh flowers, paper umbrellas, sparklers or lemon slices, they turn into real works of art that adorn both the festive table and the stomach.
There are several varieties of rum that are best for creating the best cocktails in the world. This is a light rum, usually called silver or white, which is a drink with a weak aroma and delicate taste. This is a golden rum (often called amber) - a dark-colored liquid that is added to it by added caramel and a long exposure. It is also a dark (or black) rum aged in charred oak barrels, and as a result has become saturated and fragrant. A black rum cocktail is usually consumed in a hot form, since the taste of this drink best reflects, for example, grog.
One of the most famous and popular rum-based drinks is the Bacardi cocktail. To make it, you need to take white rum - necessarily “Bacardi” (75 ml.), Lemon juice (50 ml.), Grenadine - pomegranate syrup (10 ml.), Sugar syrup (25 ml.). Of the additional elements, you will need to take care of the shaker, ice, cocktail glass-saucer and decoration - cocktail cherry. First of all, you will have to fill the shaker with ice, then add all the other ingredients to it, shake thoroughly, mixing. Having poured into a glass, this drink, like many cocktails with rum, should be decorated and served chilled.
Among other things, the rum used for cocktails can be of different strengths. On average, this drink has a strength of about 40%, however, depending on the aging time, strong rum can have a saturation of 75% or more. Such aged rum is valued more than other varieties - in its name is the word "anejo", which means that it is best to drink this drink in its pure form. The best rum-based cocktails are obtained from a rum elixir with a minimum strength (30%), a sweet, distinct taste, but sometimes you can pay attention to flavored rum. This substance with the smell and taste of various fruits is very often part of the most exotic drinks.
However, fruit shades of taste can be introduced by other ingredients into original or classic cocktails with rum. For example, you can prepare a drink with the following components: rum (50 ml.), Pineapple and orange juice (15 ml. Each ), peach liquor (15 ml.). In addition, the composition of this cocktail should include fresh fruit (any), a few drops of grenadine (pomegranate syrup) and a few slices of fruit for decoration. At the first stage of preparation, you should cut your favorite fruits and lay them on the bottom of the glass - highball. Further, all other ingredients are combined in a shaker, supplemented with ice and mixed, after which they are poured into fruits. Ready cocktail can be decorated with slices of fruit.
It should be noted that all cocktails with rum, experts recommend not to leave without decoration. It does not matter what will be chosen for this - you can use vegetables and fruits, halves of berries, citrus zest and sprigs of greens (mint, for example). Whipped cream, grated chocolate and caramel, “rims” made on the edges of the glasses of spices look great . In some cases, bright umbrellas and cute twisted tubules will be appropriate, and sometimes an engagement ring will be the only good option.