Sunshine Lover 2.0

Two years ago I created the ‘Sunshine Lover’, a delicious highball cocktail with a base of Sierra Tequila. This summer, I wanted to improve that recipe. I like the typical grassy tones of Tequila, but already wondered what it would be like to also add a bit of warm rum flavor... without changing the recipe too much.

Señor Weber blanco rum is certainly no average blanco rum. For me it’s the perfect crossover between rum and cachaça. Weber Haus is one of Brazil’s best cachaça distillers, but they recently also started with their own range of rums. They have tons of knowledge on how to create tasty spirits from sugarcane juice. It’s definitely rum, but in the nose and mouth you will also recognize the typical cachaça grassy flavors. Don’t expect heavy agricole rum flavors, it really leans much more in the direction of cachaça, but with all the goodness of rum.

Sunshine Lover 2.0

Ingredients
30 ml Señor Weber Rum Blanco
30 ml Aperol
Fever-Tree Clementine tonic (You need about ¾ of a small bottle)

Method
Add the rum and Aperol directly into your glass with lots of ice. Give it a good stir. Top with Clementine tonic and give it two more gentle stirs. Garnish with dehydrated orange and a sprig of mint. Very easy… but also very tasty !!!

Summers are for highballs, or is it the other way around? For me the highball-definition is more about the drink than about the glass. I’m talking spirit and mixers. For glassware highballs are actually pretty easy. You can use a classic cocktail tumbler, a highball longdrink or the coppa glass you use for G&T's or Spritzes. Even a large wineglass will be just perfect. 

Extra !!!
This summer (during the months of July and August) you can also enjoy this cocktail at Paal 26 Grand Café.

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Tropical Martini - Señor Weber Oro

Tikidrinks are popular all around the world. But in most cases, you either like ‘m or you don’t. If you don’t like tikidrinks, the prejudice is often “too much juices”. Let’s try to do tikidrinks in another style and keep it very simple with equal parts. 

A Martini-style drink always needs a good base spirit. For this one we picked Señor Weber Oro, a golden rum from Destilaria H. Weber in Brazil, a well known distillery for excellent Cachaça spirits. 

The Weber distillery launched two new rum products : Señor Weber Blanco and Señor Weber Oro. Made with sugarcane molasses, Blanco rests for a year in a stainless steel tank before bottling, while the Oro is rested in three woods, passing through barrels of amburana, balm and American oak.

Tropical Martini

Ingredients
30 ml Vanilla Vodka (You can make this yourself by throwing a vanilla pod in your bottle of vodka and let it sit for a few days)
30 ml Señor Weber Rum Oro
30 ml Clement Mahina Coco
A splash of pineapple juice (I actually squeezed a wedge of fresh pineapple)

Method

Add everything to your shaker with lots of ice and give it a good shake. Fine strain in a Martini glass and garnish with pineapple.

Disclaimer : All pictures and texts are copyrighted by Geert Conard and Esito Management & Communications unless stated otherwise in the article. While some items might have been gifted by the producer or distributor, these are in no way paid promotions or recommendations.