 THE RECIPE
6 tablespoons butter 6 tablespoons 504Bananas Foster Rum 3/4 cup sugar OPTIONAL- 1/2 cup chopped nuts toasted (suggested-pecans) 1) Mix first 3 ingredients in a small saucepan 2) Bring to a boil. Boil, whisking/stirring constantly until alcohol smell has evaporated. 3) Remove from heat. Optional -Stir in nuts after you remove from heat . 4) Glaze your cake of choice after removing from cake-tin. Let cool. THE STORY Obviously we love drinking our rum, but there’s so much more you can do with 504Rum than making cocktails. Our Guest Experience Coordinator Mel recently used 504Bananas Foster in the kitchen, making a rum glaze for cake. You can make a rum glaze with any of our rums, but we recommend the following pairings: 504Bananas Foster pairs well with: - Cinnamon cake - Chocolate cake - Coffee cake - Vanilla cake - Coconut cake - Nut-based cakes 504Hibiscus pairs well with: - Lemon cake - Vanilla cake - Fruit cake 504Silver pairs well with: - Any cake! (Especially our latest batch. It may be the best rum ever... Swap 504Silver in Mel’s recipe for a more traditional buttered rum glaze - an upgraded classic!) 504Gold pairs well with: - Chocolate cake - Coconut cake - Vanilla cake - Coffee cake - Nut-based cakes
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1oz 504Silver 1oz 504Hibiscus 1oz passion fruit 1oz pineapple 1oz lime splash of orange blossom water 5 dashes house bitters Add ingredients to shaker with ice, shake and strain over ice. THE STORY Those weekends when the jasmine is in full bloom, the sun is warm but not scorching, and everyone seems to be headed across the city for one festival or another... we find ourselves craving something sweet, fruity, and boozy. The Spring in New Orleans combines some of our favorite spring flavors with aromatic orange blossom water and our floral 504Hibiscus rum. Every time we take a sip, we swear we can hear jazz playing.  At Happy Raptor, uplifting the work of local nonprofits is central to our operations and mission. We're lucky to partner with nonprofits year round, and this May it's our main focus - that's why we're dubbing it the Month of Giving. Keep reading for a full list of this month's partnerships and how you can support these great New Orleans-based organizations!
Are you involved with a nonprofit organization? We offer our space as an event venue at no cost to nonprofits. Contact our Guest Experience Coordinator for more information: mel@happyraptor.com.  THE RECIPE 1 1/2 oz. 504Hibiscus rum 1/2 oz. mint simple syrup 4oz. ginger beer Fill rocks glass with ice. Pour in the ginger beer. Mix 504Hibiscus rum and mint simple syrup. Slowly pour the rum and simple syrup mixture over the top. Add a little umbrella because it's simply just practical and enjoy. THE STORY
Do you remember the 2020 hurricane season? The one where the Gulf Coast got threatened and directly hit with storms so many times that the powers that be had to deep dive into the Greek alphabet to name these overactive bundles of climate uncertainty, all during the most stressful year in contemporary memory? Yes, that hurricane season. In response, we proudly introduced the Tropical Storm in our tasting room and sold them at a discount because good grief. In 2021, we're dusting these off with our old flashlights and prayer candles, and here's hoping this delicious cocktail is as dark and stormy as it gets this year. 
THE RECIPE 2oz. 504Silver 1oz. Lemon juice 1oz. Pineapple simple syrup Sprite or sparkling water (lemon, lime, pineapple or unflavored) Pour rum, lemon juice, and pineapple simple syrup into a shaker with ice. Mix and strain over ice, top with sprite or sparkling water. PINEAPPLE SIMPLE SYRUP Combine equal parts pineapple juice and sugar in a pot. (So, for example, 1 cup of each.) Heat in the pot until all the sugar has dissolved. THE STORY In case you haven't noticed, we've got a thing for that dinosaur movie from the '90s... Inspired by one of the greatest scenes, we wanted to create a cocktail with the perfect mixture of sour and sweet.  THE RECIPE
2oz. 504Bananas Foster 2oz. Orange Juice 1oz. Grenadine 5 shakes orange bitters Pour rum, orange juice, and bitters over ice. Top with grenadine for a sunset-visage. THE STORY All the rain last week had us missing the sun, so our Tasting Room Manager Parker concocted this cocktail reminiscent of a tequila sunrise and replaced the tequila with 504Bananas Foster. The Sunrise Split managed to summon the sun back to New Orleans' skies, so we think it worked! 
THE RECIPE
2oz. 504Hibiscus
1oz. orange juice 1oz. cranberry juice 1oz. pineapple habanero simple syrup 6 dashes chili bitters Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake, and strain over ice.
Making the Pineapple Habanero Simple Syrup
Combine 1 part pineapple juice with 1 part sugar and simmer. Once the sugar is dissolved, add cut habaneros (how many you add depends on how spicy you want it - if you want extra spice, include the seeds) and simmer for half an hour. Strain into a container for later use.
THE STORY
Our tasting room manager Parker was feeling a nostalgia for simpler times when he came up with this new favorite from our Spring 2021 menu.
Filled with the spirit of Ferris Bueller, Parker was on a quest to reinvent the old school juice box - but WAY less Full House and more Breakfast Club. Packed full of blatant rebellion against parents you may or may not still live with, the Monkey Wrench is a tribute to detentions spent in the lunch room slurping on a leftover pouch of Hawaiian Punch - but this time with specialty chili bitters and a handmade pineapple habanero simple syrup that you made yourself because #ADULTING. A little bit sweet, a little bit tart, a little bit spicy, and the perfect amount of 504Hibiscus. We recommend this in lieu of mimosas for your weekend brunch plans, and maybe put on some Radiohead or Blink 182 while you're at it.
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 Spring has FINALLY returned to New Orleans, and with it, the blooms on our back patio!
If you didn’t know, many of the syrups in our tasting room cocktails are made with ingredients grown on-site. We keep multiple varieties of peppers and herbs on our patio, and harvest regularly to make seasonal cocktails (Like our Pomegranate Habanero Daquiris). Growing your own food may seem like an impossible task, but growing cocktail ingredients and garnishes is actually relatively easy, even in a container garden. Read on to find out more about our favorite easy-to-grow cocktail ingredients to pair with your next bottle of 504Rum!  THE RECIPE 2oz. 504Silver 1oz. Clover honey simple syrup 1oz. lemon juice Shake ingredients with ice, strain into rocks glass. Serves 1. How to Make the Clover Honey Simple Syrup Combine 2 parts clover honey and 1 part water in a saucepan. Simmer for five minutes. Let steep for 30 minutes. Strain. Store any remaining syrup in a mason jar (or container with lid) for later use. THE STORY Honey is really the low-key star of this cocktail. Sort of like that guy we see in the all movies who always plays a certain type of character - he's never the lead but he has a bunch of lines and really adds something important to the whole vibe of the movie - what's that guy's name?....Anyway.... You can use any sort of honey you prefer for the Lucky Clover. Honey nerds will probably recognize clover honey as the most commonly used variety found easily in grocery stores everywhere. At home, we have a big collection of locally-harvested honey from farmers' markets around the state that we pull from all the time to play around with new recipes. We can't use all of these in the tasting room due to health department regulations, but if you're shaking it up at home, this cocktail is a great opportunity to bust out that Northshore honey in your cabinet. Happy St. Patrick's Day, friends!
 THE RECIPE 2oz. 504Gold 1oz. Ginger simple syrup 1oz. lime juice 5 dashes smoked chili bitters Shake ingredients with ice, strain into rocks glass. Serves 1. How to make ginger syrup: 1 cup ginger root, peeled & sliced 1 cup sugar 1 cup water Add all to pot and simmer for five minutes. Let steep for 30 minutes. Strain. Store any remaining syrup in a lidded container for later use. THE STORY
Meagen & Mark are away, so the bartenders get to play! Our lovely tasting room tender April was tasked with concocting thematically appropriate St. Patrick's Day specials for our partnership with Shamrock Our Block & Paved Paradise, and she DELIVERED! The spicy chili combined with the rich ginger syrup give this cocktail a kick appropriate for the occasion. Aptly named the Leapin' Leprechaun, this cocktail will make you jump right out of your seat - and perhaps send you on your way to finding some gold at the end of the rainbow. |