Toppa Top 10: Ten Summer Coolers + Cocktails

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June 20, 2012


5. Rum Swizzle (Bermuda, St. Kitts, Barbados, et. al)

The rum swizzle is most often associated with Bermuda, where it is generally made using Gosling’s Black Seal rum, fruit juice, grenadine and lots and lots of ice, all whisked to a froth with its namesake “swizzle stick.” But the drink’s roots run perhaps just as deep in Barbados and St. Kitts, identified as the cocktail’s birthplace in the 1909 book, Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production.