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Drink of the Day: Morro Cocktail

January 24, 2015 | By Shaun the Bartender | Add a Comment

Hope your weekend is getting off to a good start. Happy Saturday, everyone. It’s hard to believe that we are only one week away from having our first month of 2015 under our belts. Yet, here we are. Never took it seriously when my parents told me that time would start to fly when I hit a certain age. I am a believer now!

Here’s a nice combo cocktail for you, bringing together the nice and busy flavors of dark rum and enhancing the kick and adding more flavors for your taste buds to enjoy by adding some gin. For you gin imbibers out there, this is a “must-try”!

Let’s get started, shall we? Have a great day! Cheers!

Morro

1 1/2 oz. Gin

1/2 oz. Dark Rum

1/2 oz. Pineapple Juice

1 Teaspoon Fresh Lime Juice

1 Tablespoon Simple Syrup

Super fine granulated Sugar

Method: Take the old fashioned glass that you will be using as the finish glass and rub a wedge of lime on the rim of the glass to whetten. Dip the rim into a saucer with finely granulated sugar. Set this glass off to the side. In a mixing glass with ice, pour all the ingredients in to measure. Cap with a tin and shake to blend the ingredients. Set mixing glass to the side. Add ice to the sugar rimmed old fashioned glass. Strain the cocktail into the old fashioned glass filled with ice. Add a lime wheel for garnish.

This Day in History:

1848 - Gold was discovered in Sutter’s Mill, California. It wouldn’t be until President Polk announced the finding later in December that the gold rush would begin.

1908 - Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout Troop in England.

1972 - Japanese soldier, Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in the jungles of Guam, hiding there for 28 years believing that World War II was still going on.

1986 - Voyager 2 space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus.

Notable Birthday:

Singer/Songwriter Warren Zevon was born on this date in 1947.

Notable Quotes:

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson