It is National Rum Day. Drink rum with purpose! Drink Rum with Resolve!
My good friends at Esquire are always up on these things and have a few suggestions on
how to enjoy the holidays. Worth the price of admission:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/national-rum-day-6271977
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The Caribe Hilton’s Beachcomber Bar in San Juan, Puerto wanted a new drink, one that would highlight the history of Puerto Rico but with a new twist that would appeal to the foreign visitors of the bar. Mr. Ramón Marrero, a bartender who worked at the Beachcomber was charged with creating the drink. Marrerro worked for months on the creation using the well known Don Q rum as a base. One of the specialty ingredients in the new drink would be the coconut cream that Coco López had just been invented.
In the end Marrero created a tasty, tropical drink unlike any other. On this day in 1954 the first Piña Colada was sold. The drink was an instant hit and by 1978, the three-millionth piña colada was sold and the government declared the Piña Colada to be the official drink of Puerto Rico. His original drink recipe follows:
The Historical Inebriant: The Original Piña Colada
Ingredients:
In the end Marrero created a tasty, tropical drink unlike any other. On this day in 1954 the first Piña Colada was sold. The drink was an instant hit and by 1978, the three-millionth piña colada was sold and the government declared the Piña Colada to be the official drink of Puerto Rico. His original drink recipe follows:
Ingredients:
3 oz. coconut cream
6 oz. pineapple juice
1½ oz of white rum
Pour all ingredients into a blender or shaker with crushed ice, and blend or shake very well until smooth. Pour into chilled glass, garnish with pineapple wedge and/or a maraschino cherry._______________________________________________________________________
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