Cooking Lesson #1078: A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea Cocktail

…from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

How you doin’? A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea Cocktail is a mouthful (and a glassful, too)! The best cocktails taste good and look pleasing to the eye, but a well-conceived name can be the difference between a drink that fades into the night and one with staying power. It’s yet to be determined whether we’ll still be drinking this cocktail well into the future.
 
My Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea Cocktail combines three types of rum with pineapple and lime juices, demerara syrup and cold brew coffee. The first rum is an unaged rhum agricole, which is distilled from fresh sugarcane juice, rather than the more common molasses and reports grassy, earthy notes.
 
Blackstrap rum is next. It’s characterized by its dark color. This rum gets dark colorization coloring, not from barrel aging--these rums can be intensely flavorful. Lastly, my recipe calls for Old Port Deluxe rum, which is made in Bangalore, India, using 100% local sugarcane.
 
The rums are sweetened with demerara syrup, a type of simple syrup made with demerara sugar, which has a coarse grain and light tan color. With notes of molasses, toffee and coffee, it provides a richer, deeper flavor than traditional simple syrup. Pineapple lends sweet, tropical notes, while fresh lime juice provides citrusy balance. Finally, the cocktail is topped with a small pour of cold brew coffee before it’s garnished with coffee beans and pineapple leaves. A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea is a fun, complex drink to be enjoyed whenever the mood strikes.
 
Ingredients 
1-1/2 ounces Rhum J.M Agricole Blanc
1/2 ounce Cruzan blackstrap rum
1/2 ounce Old Port Deluxe matured rum
1 ounce pineapple juice
3/4 ounce demerara syrup (1 part demerara sugar, 1 part water)
3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 ounce cold brew coffee
Garnish: coffee beans and pineapple leaves
 
Directions

1. Add the rums, pineapple juice, demerara syrup, lime juice and cold brew coffee to a shaker with ice.
2. Shake it like you mean it until well-chilled.
3. Strain into a Tiki mug or other tall tropical look glass filled with crushed ice.
4. Garnish with coffee beans and pineapple leaves.

ChefSecret:  Yes, I agree, sourcing the ingredients and finding them all is a bit tedious.  If this is too much for you to handle, just mix up a Rum and Coke… 1-1/2-ounces of rum to 6 ounces of Coca Cola.

Quip of the Day:  Derrick rode to the liquor store yesterday on his bicycle. He bought a bottle of Rum and put it in the bicycle basket. As he was about to leave, he thought for a moment, “If I fall off the bicycle, the bottle might break.” To avoid that, he drank all of the rum before he left the store. It turned out to be a very good decision because he fell off the bike seven times on his way home.
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