Rum rules

Goslings Black Rum is incredible.  I keep wanting to blow it off as overrated and I can't.  It works so well. So here's the story, I had some organic® Valencia oranges I got to pilfer their zest to make cinnamon orange simple syrup and I juiced 'em up.  Caveat: these oranges are some of the juiciest and sweetest I've ever had, so I wouldn't expect much from normal ordinary shitty oranges.  The simple syrup was sitting there cooling off and I couldn't help myself - So, I poured this:

2 ounces of Goslings
2 ounces of the freshest damn orange juice
1 ounce of cinnamon orange simple syrup
a dash of orange bitters
a dash of Angostura bitters

Shake and pour into a glass vessel.  The pulp and foam will remind you of a swim in the devil's lake during a wind storm - messy.  I don't know what to call it, maybe there's already a name for it.  Not to toot my own horn but this is one of my favorite drinks in a while.  I was afraid it would taste like the autumn candle section at Bed, Bath and Beyond but it really didn't.

p.s - If you think you can use bottled OJ for this, you can't. And get more oranges than you think, this is really drinkable, like punch.

I was so excited, I had a photo shoot while I was pillaging the first one. 

Another brown/orange cocktail. Anti-pink

What a mess. I might consider straining that filthy thing for company.

Big Stick

Big Stick - by Henry Marks

1 1/2 oz Dark Rum
1 1/4 oz Cherry Heering
1 oz Cointreau
1 1/2 oz fresh pineapple juice
1 1/4 oz fresh lime juice
Squeeze some pineapple with your clean hands until you have an ounce and one fourth of It's juice. Add the rest of the boozes and juices and shake with a dash of club soda until it nearly turns to butter. Strain. Serve up with club soda floats. Makes two drinks. It should look like you accidentally left a Big Stick popsicle in a glass where it melted. 

Pineapple Pac-Man optional because it's a pain in the ass.

Drinking Out of Cups

Cazadores Reposado, Royal Combier and lime juice

The blood orange color of this cocktail eludes my camera.