Needless to say, this idea started out (as many great ideas do) under the influence of alcohol. There was a rum-tasting event at the Saint James Tavern on Tuesday, my friends and I had a couple of shots of some rum infused on the premises with a special concoction of yummy things and the words "how hard could it be" may well have been uttered.
Needless to say, once the words "how hard can it be" have been uttered, life simply cannot continue until an answer has been found, so the next day we dragged our aching heads up to ASDA and bought the following:
- Rum (Morgan's Spiced)
- 2 Coconuts
- 1 Pineapple
On returning home, we proceeded to hollow out the coconuts and the pineapple (saving the coconut juice in a glass), and stuff the little pieces of fruit and nut we were left with into a spare 2 litre Coke bottle. Having made a bottle of fruit, we poured in the coconut milk and the rum, shook it all up and left it overnight.
The following morning, we awoke bright-eyed and excited like young children on Christmas morning, eager to taste the fruits of our labours.
IT. WAS. AWESOME.
Needless to say, the bottle didn't last us very long.
So, we bought another bottle of rum and refilled our fruit bottle, reasoning that much like a teabag it was good for more than one use.
It was. On our second attempt we decided to filter the fruit-infused rum using coffee filters, as our previous batch had a tendency to settle after a while. The result, dear friends, was an amber nectar that was sweet and refreshing and damned tasty to boot.
Then someone discovered a recipe for making rum liqueurs.
How hard could it be?
We mixed 8oz (225g) of sugar into half a pint of water over a low heat. Once it started to take on a slightly syrupy texture we removed the heat and added half a pint of our fruit rum, left it to cool and decanted the whole thing into a bottle and left it in a safe place, where it shall stay for the next calendar month (or until next week, if we get bored). We tried a little bit of the cooled rum-sugar-water mixture before laying it to rest and it was GODLIKE. I shall let you know how the finished version turns out.
On a sidenote, I tried to repeat the liqueur experiment today by mixing dark rum and coffee to make a coffee rum liqueur.
It's not gone well.
I may have gone a little overboard with the coffee, so the stuff we have at the moment is not something I'm particularly fond of.
My girlfriend likes it though.
Fucking miracles.
'Til next time then, toodle pip!
Disclaimer: Some of the facts in the above account have been altered to make the story more interesting, and to protect the innocent. Messing about with alcohol is almost certainly not a good idea, and has been linked to speech deformities, bladder weakness, domestic violence, the spread of STI's, cancer, the Watergate scandal and Jedward. Don't say I didn't warn you.
(EDIT: I made some extra syrup and added it to the coffee rum yesterday evening. It tastes better now.)
