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In place of pineapple juice I used frozen pineapple.I like to use just enough ice to float the liquid in the blender for thicker, frozen cocktail.Shake everything in a cocktail shaker tin filled with ice, strain into ice filled glasses. You can make it on the rocks if you like. I prefer these cocktails served frozen.
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I used hibiscus simple syrup in place of the grenadine, coconut rum in place of white or gold and to keep the ice to a minimum so it wouldn't water down the drink I swapped the pineapple juice for frozen pineapple chunks.Ī few notes about this Late Summer Rum Runner Recipe First: The most important part is the float of rum on the top and the tropical garnishes.Ī few ingredient swaps were made with this version of a rum runner. Various juices are used, pineapple, orange and lime are most common and to round out all this booze and juice a splash of grenadine is added for flavor and color. I find the cheaper brands have a very off-putting banana flavor. I am not hugely fond of strong banana flavor so this is a liqueur I will splurge on for a higher quality. Some recipes use a blackberry brandy others use a liqueur. Blackberry and banana liqueurs are added in equal amounts. Rum is the the base liquor - anything from gold, spiced, dark or flavored such as coconut like I have used in my version. So what exactly are frozen rum runner cocktails? Sounds like something out of a James Bond movie!! Rum-runners often kept cans of used engine oil handy to pour on hot exhaust manifolds in case a screen of smoke was needed to escape the Coast Guard ships. Rum runner boats were small, fast and maneuverable, which made the smuggling easier to do.
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Bootlegging was the term for alcohol smuggled over land, rum running was the term for those who traveled by water. When alcohol became illegal, but people still found a way. The drink was named after the rum runners of prohibition era. The origin of the drink dates back to the late 1950s at the Holiday Isle Tiki bar in Islamorada Florida. I prefer just to float some dark rum on top of the cocktail.Ī classic rum runner can be made a variety of ways. Some of the bartenders would pour the 151 rum into the straw so your first sip was crazy. They wouldn't ever divulge, as they had it in a frozen drink machine to dispense, load up the top with a generous float of 151 rum and off you went to sip on your cocktail. The "Tiki Bar" had their own secret recipe. Over the years, many versions of this recipe have cropped up in bars and recipe books and website, often with additional fruit juices to soften the blow.Boozy, fruit, refreshing frozen rum runners. If you don’t have a tasty overproof rum, strong dark rum makes for a decent substitute. The rum you choose should be flavorful despite its proof, so avoid the bottom-shelf fire-starter rums and look for something like Lemon Hart, Hamilton, Don Q, or Gosling’s. This original recipe is pretty high-octane, due to the healthy pour of overproof rum. Over time, certain ingredients went unused – so Ebert came up with a delicious recipe to make use of those odd ducks. Back in the early ’70s when it was created, the tiki bar allowed guests to pour their own drinks from the bar’s collection. According to legend, the Rum Runner recipe was the child of necessity, created by “Tiki John” Ebert at the Holiday Isle Resort in the Florida Keys.