- Hi, everyone.
Welcome back to the Cocktail Blog.
I'm Steve the Bartender and today
I'm showing you how to make a Bahama Mama.
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I've had many people over the years
ask me to do this cocktail
and it's been sitting on my list for a very long time.
I've been putting it off,
but today is the day that I'm gonna make
a Bahama Mama, which is a rum-based cocktail
with coconut rum, coffee liqueur,
and it's sweetened with pineapple juice.
So I've tweaked the particular rums that I'm using
and the ratio is varied very slightly.
I'll keep the original recipe in the description below,
which, from what I've read is the closest to the original.
Over time it's kind of evolved
and some people, some recipes
have omitted the coffee liqueur
and changed it over to a grenadine,
hence why if you see a photo of a Bahama Mama,
it's bright red.
That's the evolved different version.
But I wanted to stick to this one
because I like the addition of the coffee liqueur.
And I particularly like these rums
because the Plantation 5, which is a Barbadian rum,
has notes of sweet toffee and caramel,
and Overproof Rum has dark rich molasses,
chocolate, toffee, coffee.
So these rums will pair very nicely
with coconut and coffee, I think.
So let's get straight on to this drink.
The original recipe does call for a dark rum,
coconut rum, and one, five, one.
So I'm using the aged rum Plantation 5 year 15 mil.
And instead of a white one, five, one,
I'm using the Overproof which comes at 69%,
so it's not quite as strong, but it still packs a punch.
So 15 mil.
Half an ounce.
And coconut rum, same again: 15 mil, half an ounce.
And a huge shout out to Sam L for the Malibu,
Trevor for the Overproof, and Emma for the Plantation 5.
Thanks guys, for buying the back bar
and having your bottle featured on the channel.
And we've got coffee liqueur.
I'm using Tia Maria.
So that was seven and a half mil, quarter ounce.
And we've got fresh lemon juice.
15 mil, half an ounce.
And pineapple juice.
This is a blend of fresh pineapple juice
and pineapple juice out of the carton.
So 120 mil.
Four ounces.
So you fill, you shake with ice
and give it a shake for 12 seconds.
(ice clanking)
So fill your tiki glass,
whatever glass you have, with ice
and strain over the top.
Top it off, if need be.
This is quite a big glass, so.
And for garnish,
slice of orange.
Got some mint in the fridge,
so a couple of sprigs of mint.
And a maraschino cherry.
And finished off with a surf side sip.
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So there you have the Bahama Mama.
Cheers!
That is superb.
That is really good.
You get this accent of coffee.
The Malibu, the coconut rum,
is pretty sits right there in the background.
It is quite sweet because you do have
a lot of pineapple juice.
I'd be tempted to actually increase the rums,
just that tiny bit,
but I said it in the last video, as well,
this is a crushable drink.
It's really delicious, tropical summer drink.
The coffee is there in such a small portion
that both the Malibu and the,
I'd say the Malibu is more prominent,
and also works really well with the pineapple juice.
Coffee is there and it is accentuated by the rum,
but as I've said, you'd want to bolster the rum up,
bolster this up a little bit, as well.
It's got a nice texture to it, as well,
from that pineapple juice.
Nice thick sort of foam to it.
I recommend the Bahama Mama.
And one I'll try the other recipe with the grenadine,
and most likely upload it to the channel
in a few years' time.
Question of the day, as well,
comes from Cobaas.
He said, "What's with the tags on the bottles?".
As I mentioned before, it's buy the back bar.
I have listed on my website a bunch of bottles
that people can buy.
I have a lot of people wanting to send me bottles
from overseas and it kinda didn't make sense
with traveling taxes being so high
and shipping the bottles over here,
so I just made it so people could buy a bottle
and I could use it on the channel
and give you guys a shout out.
So again, pretty limited.
I don't want to, even though you can see
there's quite a lot of people that have bought the back bar.
I've got about 20 bottles on there
from people that have sent it to me.
I don't want to leave it too open,
so therefore I have 100 bottles sitting around
that I can't make use of.
But I appreciate you guys.
So shout out to everyone who has purchased
something for my back bar so I can share with you guys.
Thanks for watching.
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Cheers!
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