Tiki Twister Berlin 2012

Queens Park Swizzle

6 - 8 mint leaves
2/3 oz fresh lime juice
3 tsp brown Demerara sugar
2 oz Appleton VX or Bacardi 8
2 dashes Angostura

Put all ingreditents in a double old-fashioned glass and squeeze carefully, add crushed ice and swizzle. Add crushed to fill.

The original recipe of this cocktail may be a little different, but I prefer these relations of the ingredients.

Oh my God - I love this drink. I have to confess it´s one of my absolute favorites. This is my interpretation of this drink. The original contains more rum, but I like it in a lighter way.

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Chinese Cocktail

1 dash Angostura
1 dash Cointreau
1 dash Maraschino
1 bsp grenadine
2 oz Appleton VX

Stirr on ice cubes and strain in a chilled cocktail glass.

I know some gin drinkers which prefer Pink Gin as the perfect winter cocktail. To me, as a rum drinker aficionado, this cocktail is the equivalent cocktail for the season.

Trader Vic´s Puerto Rican Rum

Did anybody tasted this rum? I bought it for a lot of money and I´m not sure, if there´s the original rum inside this bottle. Jeff Berry told me this rum was delicious, but the content here is awful - like a cheap cheap wodka or whatever. So please let me know. Indeed, I really wanna know how this rum had tasted.

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