Planteray Stiggins' Fancy Pineapple Spirit Drink 70cl
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Style
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Flavoured Rum |
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Brand
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Planteray |
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Pack Type
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Bottle |
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Bottle Size
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70cl |
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ABV
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40% |
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Product Code
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007960 |
About this product
In nineteenth-century England, one of the most prized delicacies was a thing called "pineapple rum", a sipping spirit par excellence.
Unfortunately, like many good things from the past, it eventually fell out of use and its memory has faded -unless, of course, you're a reader of Charles Dickens' immortal Pickwick Papers,
in which it is featured pro-minently as the favored drink of the esteemed Rev. Stiggins. Well, "esteemed" is a strong word. It would take a perverse reader indeed to consider Mr. Stig-anything but a hypocrite for preaching tem-perance while largely existing on a diet of free drinks at Mrs. Weller's pub. But it would take a reader just as perverse to deny his connoisseurship in the matter of those drinks. His endorsement of Mrs. Weller's pineapple rum is good enough for us.
(The Reverend, by the way, preferred to take his "warm" [i.e., with a splash of boiling water], with three lumps of sugar to the tumbler.")
1824 Pineapple
With help from the spirits and cocktail historian David Wondrich, we've tried to revive this forgotten nectar. We relied on several ancient recipes, and added a few of tricks. traditional techniques from our own bag
The 1824 English Journal of Patent and Inventions and the 1844 Journal of Agri-cultural Society were our main sources of inspiration along, of course, with Mr. Dickens. We infused ripe Queen Victoria pineapples in rich, aged PLANTERAY ORIGINAL DARK RUM for several months. Meanwhile, we macerated, also in rum, the bare rind of the fruit (where the pineapple's essential oil chiefly resides) and then distilled it, creating a bright pineapple essence to blend with the lushness of the eapple infused Planteray Original Dark Rum.
David and I did this project in part out of sheer curiosity. Also because the pineapple is the symbol of hospitality and of the Tales of the Cocktail® Apprentice Program (as the 1824 Journal of Patent Inventions notes, it was customary in the West Indies to offer pineapple rum to visiting European friends). Planteray Stiggins' Fancy Pineapple is our liquid "thank you" to the Tales Apprentices - to you who do so much for us all. We hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we did making it. Following the West Indian tradition, Planteray Stiggins' Fancy Pineapple is our gift to you.
A. Gabriel & D. Wondrich
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In nineteenth-century England, one of the most prized delicacies was a thing called "pineapple rum", a sipping spirit par excellence.
Unfortunately, like many good things from the past, it eventually fell out of use and its memory has faded -unless, of course, you're a reader of Charles Dickens' immortal Pickwick Papers,
in which it is featured pro-minently as the favored drink of the esteemed Rev. Stiggins. Well, "esteemed" is a strong word. It would take a perverse reader indeed to consider Mr. Stig-anything but a hypocrite for preaching tem-perance while largely existing on a diet of free drinks at Mrs. Weller's pub. But it would take a reader just as perverse to deny his connoisseurship in the matter of those drinks. His endorsement of Mrs. Weller's pineapple rum is good enough for us.
(The Reverend, by the way, preferred to take his "warm" [i.e., with a splash of boiling water], with three lumps of sugar to the tumbler.")
1824 Pineapple
With help from the spirits and cocktail historian David Wondrich, we've tried to revive this forgotten nectar. We relied on several ancient recipes, and added a few of tricks. traditional techniques from our own bag
The 1824 English Journal of Patent and Inventions and the 1844 Journal of Agri-cultural Society were our main sources of inspiration along, of course, with Mr. Dickens. We infused ripe Queen Victoria pineapples in rich, aged PLANTERAY ORIGINAL DARK RUM for several months. Meanwhile, we macerated, also in rum, the bare rind of the fruit (where the pineapple's essential oil chiefly resides) and then distilled it, creating a bright pineapple essence to blend with the lushness of the eapple infused Planteray Original Dark Rum.
David and I did this project in part out of sheer curiosity. Also because the pineapple is the symbol of hospitality and of the Tales of the Cocktail® Apprentice Program (as the 1824 Journal of Patent Inventions notes, it was customary in the West Indies to offer pineapple rum to visiting European friends). Planteray Stiggins' Fancy Pineapple is our liquid "thank you" to the Tales Apprentices - to you who do so much for us all. We hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we did making it. Following the West Indian tradition, Planteray Stiggins' Fancy Pineapple is our gift to you.
A. Gabriel & D. Wondrich
