Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We're going to make a Coconut Rum Punch.
Now, interestingly enough, this recipe that I'm working from specifically
calls for Malibu Coconut Rum.
Now, is it actually a coconut rum or is it arum liqueur?
Now?
That's a huge debate that been going on for a while, especially
on YouTube and on cocktail channel.
Because it is made with Caribbean Rum and Coconut Liqueur.
But when combined together, it comes up with an ABV of 21%, which is low on
the rum standard because the average rum, at least in Canada is 40%.
Now that may vary depending on the country that you're from.
However, this cocktail for its size only required an ounce
and a half of Malibu Coconut.
So what I'm doing to pump up the ABV value is I'm going to split that.
And I'm going to add an ounce and a half of white rum in this case,
I'm usung Lamb's White Rum, and an ounce and a half of Malibu Coconut.
And you'll notice, which is unusual to me.
Normally I have some fresh fruit, however, I couldn't get some.
So I reached into the fridge and I grabbed some apple juice.
It's not apple juice, actually.
It's orange juice and it is sugar-free or non sugar added and pulp free.
We also have some fresh pressed pineapple juice because you can't have
a rum punch without pineapple juice.
And if you can leave a comment down below, so let's get into making this cocktail.
So I'm going to use.
a hurricane glass.
Now this is a 16 ounce Hurricane glass, which is one of the reasons why I've
adjusted the rum count to give you more alcohol by volume based on the
amount of fluid that we'll have here.
So what we'll do is we will start with ice, of course, and you just want
to fill your glass up all the way.
So it looks really, really pretty and having a little bit extra on the top when
you start building the glass is perfect.
And the reason I say that is as you add things to the level
of the ice, we'll settle down..
So the first things you need are some Grenadine.
In this case, I'm using a homemade Grenadine and this is one-to-one
with pomegranate juice and sugar with orange liqueur added in.
And what I'll do is I'll put the ingredients in the method down in the
description down below just for you.
And we're going to use a half an ounce or 15 million.
Two ounces or 60 milliliters, orange juice, two ounces or 60
milliliters pineapple juice, an ounce and a half or 45 mils, white
rum an ounce and a half or 45 mils.
Malibu, Coconut.
Oh yeah.
Look at that.
Fantastic.
That's going to look really good.
Now what you want to do.
Is grab a little bit more ice and just fill this up and you just,
you don't need a lot, just a little bit use as much as you want.
Yeah.
You want to leave that in there and then grab yourself some ginger ale.
In this case, I'm using Canada, dry ginger ale.
And you just want to top this up to the best of your ability or
not even the best of your ability.
Let's be honest.
You want to top it up to your preferences?
Look at that.
Fantastic.
Now what we're going to do is garnish this with some Amerina cherries,
but first, grab your spoon.
Just give this a gentle mix.
This is just to incorporate the ingredients a little bit more and still
keep that beautiful, beautiful sunset.
So grab yourself.
Some, uh, cherries and put it in like, so
look at that.
That is a site of tropical perfection.
Now, what are you going to do?
Throw a small straw in there and give it a sip.
Oh, perfect.
Huh?
Orange pineapple juice and rum.
And you get those hints of coconut on top of everything,
just layer in a beautifully.
I add a little bit of sweetness from the Grenadirne
absolutely fantastic.
If you want to try something different, you say you're maraschino
cherry juice instead of a, uh, um, Uh, grenadine and you know what?
That'll give you a different flavor as well.
You can also substitute a rum, maybe something spiced or something dark just
to give me different flavors, leave a comment below and tell me what you think.
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