See ya then trix!!!

My Rum Diary # 16 - I Drinkie

Sea Legs!

Wha'happen so far?

Well - This. This. This. (Hubba Hubba.). This.

Bottle 16.

and

Bottle 17.

Yarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggh!

My Rum Diary # 15 - Sea Legs

Avast ye Scurrrvy Swine!

Had a rough time rolling out of me bunk this morrrnin' as I knew once I get going, I won't stop until Monday sometime.

Oh joyous day callooh callay!

It's gonna be a doozy.

Commander California and I have made plans.  Still waiting to see if we can spring the Spaniard for the trip.

I'm hopeful.

I've been vacillating on whether or not to share this, but I'm having a drop-in to get my Sea Legs before heading to the island.  And for this event I'm making an encore batch of my Special Bumbo.  It's a hit.

And I guess maybe I should just share me recipe.  It's a variation on a theme, but here goes:

Per Cup                                                   

2 oz                  Rum                                        

.5 oz                 Lemon Juice                            

.75 oz               Pure Cane Sugar (2 TSP)                         

.25 oz               Grenadine (1TSP)                   

5.5 oz               H2O                                     

Sprinkle            Nutmeg                                 

Sprinkle            Cinnamon                              

Sprinkle            XXX                                     

Who does per Cup really?  But you have to start somewhere I guess.
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Per Batch                                                        

1 Bottle 1.75L              Rum

1Bottle 4 oz                  Lemon Juice

2 Cups (1 Box)             Pure Cane Sugar

½ Cup                          Grenadine

10 Cups                        H2O

½ Cup                          Nutmeg

½ Cup                          Cinnamon

½ Cup                          XXX

Garnish with Fresh Limes

And because I don't have a bigger mixing bowl, I tend to make the 1/2 batch most often, even when ultimately making 2 full batches as I did for today.  Arrrrithmetic ya know.  Urrrrgh.

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 ½ Batch                                                          

½ Bottle 1.75L             Rum

½ Bottle 4 oz                Lemon Juice

1 Cups (1 Box)             Pure Cane Sugar

¼ Cup                          Grenadine

5 Cups                          H2O

¼ Cup                          Nutmeg

¼ Cup                          Cinnamon

¼ Cup                          XXX

Garnish with Fresh Limes

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A couple of notes on the whole thing.  

The nicer the rum, the better the Bumbo.  For parties I usually use rotgut, but if you're making a private stash for yourself, go dark and expensive.

You can definitely cut down on the Nutmeg. It's a strong flavor and the Cinnamon works in a similar way.  You'll have to experiment, but halving and even quartering the called for amount of Nutmeg will work nicely.

The XXX you ask? If you don't know what it is, well you're Bumbo will be a fine draught without it, but it is what makes my Bumbo the BOMB!  

A pirate has to have some secrets don't he?  If you want to know that you'll have to kill me or at least have a tipple with the crew of the Confusion.

Har Har!

My Rum Diary # 14 - % by Alc./Vol.

The Teetotaller had an interesting thought being more interested in the bottles (and what pretty bottles they arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre) than what the contents were.

She lined them up by Alcohol Content and the results were interesting enough I thought I'd share with ye.

Of the 15 bottles I currently have:

the Pango Rhum is 35%

The Barbancourt 5 Star and the Blackbeard are 43%

The Kraken is 47 %

and the big winner is that gorgeous colored Smith & Cross at 57%

Everything else (ten bottles in all) are 40%, the seeming standard.

One more way to look at my trove of boozy booty/beauty!

Yum!

My Rum Diary # 13

At the climax of the second act, in rushes Terrible Teetotalling Tess, the Deathless Wench with a Treasure Trove of Booty for the good men of the Confusion.

Seriously, in addition to Bottle # 8 she also brought us mini-tastes in the forms of Bottles 9 - 15!

What a wench!

The locations represented on our trip now will include the following:

Bottle # 8 - Smith & Cross Traditional Jamaica Rum - Pure Pot Still -  Yummy

Bottle # 9 - 1 Barrel - Refined Old Dark Rum - Belize

Bottle # 10 - Cruzan - Aged Rum - St. Croix

Bottle # 11 - Pango Rhum - Spiced Barbancourt - Haiti

Bottle # 12 - 10 Cane Rum - First Press - Trinidad

Bottle # 13 - Mount Gay - Refined Eclipse Barbados Rum - Brandons, St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies

Bottle # 14 - BlackBeard - Spiced Rum - Puerto Rico

Bottle # 15 - Don Q Cristal - Premium Puerto Rican Rum

What will tomorrow bring!?!

: )

My Rum Diary # 12 - Note to Self

Ferry's like all travel outlets have luggage weight limits.

7 Bottles of Rum weight approximately 18 lbs.

For the record.

My Rum Diary # 11

I was feeling pretty badly about not representing PR with my personal history and so I stopped at Food For Less and broke down and got Bacardi Select to add to my countries.  Puerto Rico seemed an important place to represent.

Also, we may have lost our first mate.  We'll have to wait and see.  Black thoughts.