Richard Blais has teamed up with Mount Homosexual to encourage customers to savor the flavors of summer season, … [+]
Earlier than the summer season’s over, Richard Blais needs you to cease and savor the summer season. And perhaps sip some nice rum whereas cooking some nice meals.
This High Chef and acclaimed restaurateur kicked off his partnership with Mount Gay Rum and Cocktail Courrier to curate a restricted version, $112 tasting equipment. The “Mount Gay Rum Summer Taste Essentials” equipment invitations individuals to savor the summer season earlier than it’s over. The equipment itself has proved so in style
“I’m extraordinarily excited to hitch Mount Homosexual Rum in encouraging customers to discover and savor the flavors of summer season and have a good time moments value taking time for,” says Blais, who was approached by the rum model to companion up. “I’m excited to be part of the model’s new digital-led, model platform ‘Make Time for Style’ to showcase all of the methods to take pleasure in elevated summer season moments.”
Each the model and Blais himself “put style on the forefront,” he says, and he was particularly enthused to create the equipment with the model, collaborating with methods to experiment with rum and style tor a content material collection, social content material and a tangible cocktail equipment for “followers and cocktail fans to take pleasure in new methods of experiencing and savoring rum.”
The equipment itself, apart from the Mount Homosexual Black Barrel Rum, accommodates glasses, pineapple syrup (equal elements pineapple chunks and easy syrup, puréed, then strained), Angostura bitters, two Williams Sonoma seasonings (That is Every part and All Issues Meat), two glasses, dried pineapples and lemons – mainly the whole lot it is advisable pair barbecue with rum.
What Blais says he hoped the equipment would accomplish is show rum’s versatility in pairing. “The objective of this equipment and our partnership is to dispel frequent misconceptions round rum and to spotlight all of the methods by which cocktail fans can benefit from the highlight,” Blais says. “I wished customers to expertise and uncover how Mount Homosexual Rum develops its distinctive style by means of a flavorful cocktail recipe – Good Outdated Pine – and grill pairings.”
Good Outdated Pine, the cocktail Blais developed, consists of rum, pineapple syrup and fragrant bitters. A twist on the quaint, the precise recipe will be discovered on Cocktail Courier’s web site, and it pairs nicely with grilled meats and greens. “Once I created this equipment, one in all my greatest inspirations was to squash a standard false impression individuals have about rum,” Blais says. “Individuals suppose rum solely works nicely with candy flavors, nevertheless it doesn’t must be paired with one thing fruity. A rum like Mount Homosexual is a lot extra complicated, particularly with its barrel ageing, so you possibly can consider rum in the identical manner you consider whisky or bourbon.”
Blais says he additionally needs customers and cocktail fans to understand how refreshing cocktails can pair with summer season grilling. “With this equipment, I wished to indicate off how pairing refreshing cocktails with savory summer season grilling staples is the proper technique to uncover new taste combos,” he says.
With Nationwide Rum Day arising on August 16, Blais has an ideal pairing all deliberate out. “To have a good time, I plan on making (my) Mount Homosexual Black Barrel Blaised Ribs that completely enhances rum cocktails like my Ember and Rum Manhattant,” he says. “It’s scrumptious. Once I mix the recipe’s piquant spices with a wholesome pour of Mount Homosexual Black Barrel to marinate lamb or pork ribs, the result’s out of this world and gloriously messy.”
“I additionally plan to take pleasure in a neat pour of Black Barrel so I can actually expertise the flavors of the rum,” he says. “Rum, particularly Mount Homosexual, is an thrilling spirit to me as it’s a taste first.”
