Mango & Spice

Mango & Spice

So the last drink was made up with the new Mystic Mango flavor. The very name promises fresh, exotic and Caribbean feelings, which are also reflected in the proposed Highball Recipe, the Mango & Spice:

The third and final cocktail-suggestion of Thomas Henry is most likely something like a “new creation”. While the Paloma is a relatively sophisticated long drink with a Mexican reminiscence and the Pink Ink is virtually a variant of the Gin & Tonic, the “Mango & Spice” is rather a simple long drink made of rum and the Mystic Mango lemonade.

The recipe for Mango & Spice is:

4 oz spiced rum

Thomas Henry Mystic Mango

Juice of 1/2 lime

When mixing this drink I have slightly deviated from the recipe and have replaced the Spiced Rum by Myers’s Dark Rum. The relatively sweet mango lemonade seemed to demand a somewhat stronger counterpoint and the interaction with the strong caramel-spice notes of Myers’s work really good. Sprayed with a lime zest it went really nice. The Mango & Spice Highball however surely is way better while lying on a Caribbean beach than in the pre-Christmas period, in which I have tried the drink.

Of course I can imagine it with spiced rum, too but somehow that day I longed for a stronger rum. That might really have been because I was not on that Caribbean beach but in my flat on a ** *** cold winters day. The result nonetheless was very delicious: exotic and sweet mango with fine sparkling freshness meets full-bodied rum and the acidity of the lime. A caribbean-wintry experience.