Dark Matter Spiced Rum provides the perfect selection of cocktails to accompany the new Star Wars film
The force is strong with a new range of cocktails designed to celebrate this week’s release of, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Dark Matter Spiced Rum, from Scotland’s first and only rum distillery, teamed up with the best mixologists this side of the Mos Eisley Cantinato to create the perfect interstellar cocktails – with not a drop of blue milk in sight.
Andy Stewart, head bartender at Aberdeen’s subterranean speakeasy The Tippling House, brings us Obi-Rum – an elegant blend of spicy Dark Matter and subtle, fragrant aromas. Wookie Fuzzball is the chocolatey brainchild of Kieran Stephens of Rothes’ The Station Hotel, while Georgi Radev, cocktail Jedi at Mayfair celebrity haunt Mahiki, has created two unique concoctions – Kessel Rum and Dark Vader. Infused with the bar’s signature Tiki flavours, they’ll tempt even the purest of heart to turn to the dark side.
1.OBI-RUM
35ml Dark Matter Spiced Rum
15ml overproof rum
20ml vanilla and cinnamon syrup
15ml orange juice
1 egg
Shake all ingredients and double-strain into the glass. Garnish with a smouldering cinnamon stick.
2. WOOKIE FUZZBALL
37.5ml Dark Matter Spiced Rum
12.5ml hazelnut liqueur
12.5ml caramel syrup
50ml fresh coffee from bean
12.5ml Cacao white liqueur
Chocolate syrup
Add all the ingredients except chocolate syrup into a shaker; shake well and strain into a chilled glass that has chocolate syrup spiral drizzled inside. Garnish with chocolate vermicelli and marzipan “wookie belt”.
3. KESSEL RUM
50ml Dark Matter Spiced Rum
20ml Re’al pumpkin spice
30ml apple juice
30ml coconut water
10ml lime juice
Shake ingredients. Serve with an apple fan on lime wedge and cherry.
4. DARK VADER
50ml Dark Matter Spiced Rum
20ml Re’al ginger
15ml elderflower
25ml lemon juice
1 egg white
20ml soda
Shake ingredients and serve over ice cubes. Garnish with a lemon flower and Angostura Vader face stencilled on top.
- Dark Matter Spiced Rum has 40% ABV, 70cl VOL and an RRP of £35, and is available from a range of retailers nationwide. Stockists can be found at www.darkmatterdistillers.com