You’d be forgiven if the very considered coconut rum was… not a very good one. For a lot of the trendy cocktail revival, coconut rum has been roughly filed away as a product of youthful misguidance. Latest years, nonetheless, have seen the flavored spirits class shed its gimmicky fame and turn into a severe pursuit for severe producers. Planteray was a pioneer on this realm when the model launched its pineapple rum in 2015, and now, its Minimize & Dry rum joins the fray as a fast-track approach to recent coconut taste—no fat-wash wanted. 

In contrast to most of the different coconut-flavored rums in the marketplace, Minimize & Dry leans on aged rum as the bottom, particularly a mix of column and pot nonetheless Barbados rum. The coconut taste, in the meantime, comes from ripe coconuts which have been minimize and dried—therefore the identify—within the solar to pay attention taste earlier than being infused into the spirit. The result’s a richly flavored rum with no hint of artificiality.

As somebody with firsthand expertise making an attempt all of the methods to coconut your cocktail, from fat-washing to coconut-aging, Minimize & Dry has turn into a right away fixture of my residence bar for its capability to carry a tropical burst of taste to the classics. Swapped in for gin in a Negroni, the aperitivo staple takes on an overt tropical edge; it gives a simple but decadent improve to the Espresso Martini; it’s a shoo-in for the Piña Colada; and a no brainer merely topped with coconut water. It’s even ok to scrub away the reminiscences of unhealthy coconut rum.