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Five sumptuous cocktails you can mix up with Étän Spiced Rum

Move over three, when it comes to rum, five is the magic number. Étän means five in Mungaka, a dialect spoken in Bali, a town in Cameroon, and by the parents of the five incredible women responsible for Étän Spiced Rum. To celebrate this unique golden drink, distilled with five botanicals found in West Africa, here’s no fewer than five delicious cocktails you can mix up yourself at home.

ETÄN Alive

INGREDIENTS:

50ml Étän spiced rum
50ml Passionfruit liquer
50ml Pomegranate juice
Juice of 2 limes
Crushed and cubed ice

METHOD:
1. Jolt all ingredients together for 15 seconds
2. Fill a goblet glass halfway with cubed and crushed ice
3. Pour into a goblet
4. Serve with half a passion fruit and pomegranate seeds

 

Melonin’ Poppin’

INGREDIENTS:

150ml Étän Rum
100ml Pineapple Juice
75ml Orange Juice
15ml Fresh Lime Juice
15ml Grenadine
15ml Sugar Syrup
Maraschino Cherries

METHOD:

1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a Hurricane glass over fresh ice.
2. Garnish with maraschino cherries.

 

ÉTÄN Mess

INGREDIENTS:

50ml Étän spiced rum
50ml single cream
Handful of strawberries
Drizzle of strawberry syrup
A handful of ice cubes

METHOD:

1. Put all ingredients into a blender
2. Blitz for 30 seconds
3. Pour into a martini glass (you can drizzle extra strawberry syrup into your glass beforehand)
4. Garnish with a slice of strawberry

 

Orange-inal

INGREDIENTS:

60ml Étän
15ml Cointreau
75ml Orange juice
1 egg white

METHOD:
1. Dry shake the ingredients for 30 seconds
2. Add ice and shake until chilled
3. Fine strain into a coupe glass
4. Garnish with a dehydrated orange wheel

Cloud Nine

INGREDIENTS:

Muddle a handful of mint leaves
50ml Étän
25ml St Germain (elderflower liqueur)
Half a fresh lime
Apple juice

METHOD:

1. Add ice and shake the Etan, Elderflower Liquer, mint leave and fresh lime
2. Strain into martini glass
3. Top with Apple Juice
4. Garnish with an apple slice

Website: www.etanrum.co.uk

Photography courtesy of Étän Rum