*Press Release*
St Lucia Distillers has recruited a new Chairman’s Reserve X1 who are currently touring top bars in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield giving mixology demonstrations, cocktail tastings and discounted serves to eager customers who want to taste the rums which have won the “Best Rum” Trophy four times in the last six years.
The tour started at Kosmonaut Bar on Tariff Street, in Manchester’s Northern Quarter where Tom Higham has invented a new cocktail ‘5 Spice Sour’ to accompany their Spice Club evening when they serve a grand home-style 4 course Indian meal (recipe below).
Montpellier’s Café on Back Turner Street, Manchester organised a “Caribbean Calling” evening and informal food-pairing event with Chairman’s White Rum, Chairman’s Spiced and it included a warm goat’s cheese, pine nut and honey salad paired with a Honey and Walnut Rum Manhattan using Chairman’s Reserve Finest Rum.
The Almost Famous Bar at 100-102 High Street also in Great Northern, Manchester will also be offering individually created cocktails by four of the new Chairman’s Rovers X1: Adam Binnersley, Jonathan Leathley, Brodie Meah and Tom Higham at the new outside terrace area on Tuesday 26th August, when all four join forces to run the Chairman’s Reserve evening pop-up. Also at Almost Famous, a new Chairman’s Reserve Rum cocktail called ‘Custard Reserve’ specially created by mixologist Jonathan Leathley will be on the drinks menu – for the recipe – see below.
On the same evening, Under New Management, the popular bar in Barlows Croft, Salford M3 5DY will host a late-night session with plenty discounted Chairman’s Reserve Rum serves including Brodie Meah’s new rum cocktail ‘Watermelon Punch 1999’ – recipe below.
Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield will also be hosting in the coming weeks master classes of Caribbean rums from St Lucia showing the blends of pot and coffey still rum from one of the world’s most successful distilleries.
*End*
All sounds pretty awesome and I’ll hopefully be able to nip along to Great Northern on the 26th for a drink or two as they sound well worth checking out…………
Cocktail Recipes
‘Watermelon Punch 1999’ – Brodie Meah at Under New Management , Salford.
37.5ml Chairman’s Reserve Finest
25ml Vermouth
15ml Wheat beer & Coriander Seed Reduction
20ml Citrus
Watermelon
‘5 Spice Sour’ – Tom Higham, Kosmonaut Bar, Manchester
40ml Chairman’s Reserve Finest
10ml Mandarin Liqueur
25ml Lime Juice
15ml 5 spice syrup
15ml Mango
Splash ginger beer
‘Custard Reserve’ – Jonathan Leathley, at the Almost Famous Bar
50ml Chairman’s Reserve Finest
50ml Cocchi Americano
25ml Lemon
25ml Cooked Custard Cordial
25ml Egg White
2 Dashes Jerry Thomas Bitters
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