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Spiced Rum Guava Gunpowder Cocktail

Spiced Rum Guava Gunpowder Cocktail

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With guava nectar, gunpowder green tea and a pinch of spice, this spiced rum cocktail tastes like a sophisticated tropical vacation. It’s a bit sweet, a bit tart and totally sip-able.

Spiced Rum Guava Gunpowder Cocktail

I’ve decided I hate the term “binge watching” television. The term makes it sound like it’s a bad thing to watch a few hours of House Hunters International. And that, folks, is not a bad way to spend a few hours of relaxation time (i.e. kids are asleep).

The couples on that show are fantastic to watch. Either they are attempting to look into the camera and say something positive about this bungalow in the jungle with giant flying bugs because they are fulfilling some dumb dream when they spent two weeks there in college and now are realizing how difficult it will be dragging their whole family there… OR their significant other is making them get a second house and they are just seething on the inside while obviously trying not to look angry for a national audience. But we can tell!

At the end of the island episodes, the couple is always cheers-ing with some fantastic looking cocktails and they somehow look content with their decision to be the crazy Americans on that island. If they were in Puerto Rico, by the way, they probably were sipping on a cocktail made with Don Q rum.

Spiced Rum Guava Gunpowder Cocktail

Today’s recipe is in partnership with Don Q Rums and we’re featuring their newest rum offering the Don Q Oak Barrel Spiced Rum. Don Q Rum has only been in the States a little over a decade, but has been a popular choice in Puerto Rico for 150 years, making it their #1 rum. This spiced rum packs a punch of flavor with vanilla and pepper and just enough sweetness for my palate. While you can definitely sip this rum, it’s also a great mixing rum to make unquestionably delicious cocktails. So that’s what we’re doing with it now!

Spiced Rum Guava Gunpowder Cocktail

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With such strong flavors to start with in the rum, I decided to use some equally strong flavors to compliment that spiciness. When you think powerful, do you think about gunpowder? In cocktails?! I do, but this version of gunpowder comes in the form of tea. Gunpowder green tea to be exact. Teas are great options for giving subtle (and sometimes not so subtle. Hello lapsang souchong tea!) flavor to cocktails. I steeped this savory, smoky tea in a simple syrup to lend a savory note to the drink and to balance the sweetness of the other components. Thinking of Puerto Rico, I opted to add some guava nectar for tropical sweetness and a big squeeze of lime finished with a touch of orange curaçao. The drink starts sweet, but ends with a lingering earthiness. To give it a finishing kick, the glass is rimmed in a mixture of salt and cayenne.

Spiced Rum Guava Gunpowder Cocktail

For more information about Don Q Oak Barrel Spiced Rum and all their exceptional rums, their commitment to sustainability and quality, and for additional drink & garnish ideas and proper glassware tips please visit their website at donq.com.

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Spiced Rum Guava Gunpowder Cocktail


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  • Author: Elana Lepowski

Description

With guava nectar, gunpowder green tea and a pinch of spice, this spiced rum cocktail tastes like a sophisticated tropical vacation. It’s a bit sweet, a bit tart and totally sip-able.


Ingredients

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  • 11/2 ounces Don Q Oak Barrel Spiced Rum
  • 3/4 ounce guava nectar
  • 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice from about 1 lime (reserve lime shell)
  • 1/2 ounce gunpowder green tea syrup (recipe follows)
  • 1/4 ounce orange curaçao
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper for garnish

Gunpowder Green Tea Syrup (Yields: 5 oz)

  • 3 bags of gunpowder green tea (or two heaping tablespoons if you have loose tea)
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup water

Instructions

  1. First, combine salt and cayenne pepper in a shallow bowl. Using your spent lime, moisten the outside of your cocktail glass by rubbing the rim with the lime. Rim the side of the cocktail glass in the salt and cayenne mixture.
  2. Next, in a shaker ? filled with ice, pour in Don Q Oak Barrel Spiced Rum, guava nectar, lime juice, gunpowder green tea syrup, and orange curaçao. Shake for 20 seconds and strain into pre-rimmed cocktail glass.

Gunpowder Green Tea Syrup (Yields: 5 oz)

  1. In a small saucepan, combine sugar and water. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Stir in teabags (or loose tea if using). Steep for 10 minutes. Strain and use immediately or store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one month.
  • Category: Cocktail

 

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