TASTE OF SUMMER

TASTE OF SUMMER
1 measure Malibu Sunshine Rum
1 measure pineapple juice
Splash of Sprite

The delicious cocktail, though it could have used garnish.

Today was a very hot, very fun day in Cincinnati, Ohio, spent with my wonderful step-daughter, her husband, my family, an old college bud and her husband. Among the highlights were a spinning carnival ride, an exciting Reds game, a trip to the best liquor store ever, chicken dancing on my seat at the Hofbrauhaus, witnessing my son’s first pick-up and sipping a TASTE OF SUMMER cocktail.

Ann!

The TASTE OF SUMMER was the drink of the day at Gameworks in Newport, Kentucky, a happy place just across the river from Cincy. The cocktail is made with Malibu Sunshine rum, which just came out in May. Malibu Sunshine has the expected rum and coconut flavor, but with the added tanginess of lemon and lime in an eye-catching bottle. It is suppose to taste like sunshine in a bottle and, I admit, it kinda does, especially when combined with pineapple juice and Sprite, like in the TASTE OF SUMMER cocktail. No shaker is needed. Just put the ingredients in a rocks glass, add ice and stir.

The TASTE OF SUMMER will get you excited for the three months ahead. The pineapple juice and new Malibu work perfect together. The cocktail has a strong citrus taste, but it’s not so overpowering that you don’t want more than one. In fact, by cocktail number three, I was feeling sand between my toes and salt water in my eyes.

Drink Up^

Cocktail Connie