{"id":685591,"date":"2024-11-01T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=685591"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:08:15","slug":"173-chocolate-rum-great-as-a-christmas-gift-and-an-amazing-winter-warmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/173-chocolate-rum-great-as-a-christmas-gift-and-an-amazing-winter-warmer\/","title":{"rendered":"173 Chocolate Rum&#8230; great as a Christmas Gift and an amazing winter warmer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Christmas just around the corner (cue chocolate boxes being devoured!), Project<br \/>\n173\u2019s Chocolate Rum could be your new favourite winter warmer.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready to indulge in a festive twist on a classic with their Chocolate Rum and Raisin Old Fashioned! This delicious cocktail takes the traditional Old Fashioned to new heights, featuring the rich, velvety notes of chocolate rum that mingle with the \u201cChristmas in a glass\u201d sweetness of Pedro Ximenez sherry. Perfect for holiday gatherings or a festive night in, grab your favourite glass, and let\u2019s toast to the season with a drink that\u2019s deliciously decadent and oh-so-festive!<\/p>\n<p>Recipe below! As well as more details on Project 173\u2019s Chocolate flavoured craft rum which is priced at just \u00a319.95 for a 50cl bottle and makes a wonderful stocking filler or secret santa gift for rum-lovers this Christmas. It is available from Master of Malt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHOCOLATE RUM AND RAISIN OLD FASHIONED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<p>60ml Project #173 Chocolate Rum<\/p>\n<p>20ml Pedro Ximenez<\/p>\n<p>5 dashes orange bitters<\/p>\n<p>Orange peel<\/p>\n<p>Method<\/p>\n<p>Add all ingredients to a rocks glass filled with ice and stir for at least 15 seconds to combine. Garnish with orange peel, spritzing the oils over the drink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT PROJECT 173 CHOCOLATE RUM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(\u00a319.95 50cl &#8211; Available from Master of Malt)<\/p>\n<p>If you fancy introducing the deliciousness of chocolate to your cocktails and mixed drinks, but don&#8217;t quite fancy sticking a chocolate bar in your glass (or something like that), the Project #173 range has you covered with its Chocolate Rum!<\/p>\n<p>It features a base of good quality rum, and it&#8217;s naturally flavoured with tasty chocolate, resulting in a rich, subtly sweet flavour profile. We reckon this should be great for putting a tasty twist on some classic rum cocktails. The bottle itself is also very zazzy, even featuring a piece of 23 karat gold leaf!<\/p>\n<p>Other Project 173 flavours include: Black Cherry; Chocolate; Banana; Gingerbread; Butterscotch; Pumpkin Spice; Pineapple; Smoked Chilli; Coffee; Coconut; Salted Caramel; Earl Grey; Raspberry and Mango<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-685594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-04-110728.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1336\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-04-110728.png 1336w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-04-110728-615x217.png 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-04-110728-768x271.png 768w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-04-110728-1024x362.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1336px) 100vw, 1336px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Christmas just around the corner (cue chocolate boxes being devoured!), Project 173\u2019s Chocolate Rum could be your new favourite winter warmer. Get ready to indulge in a festive twist on a classic with their Chocolate Rum and Raisin Old Fashioned! This delicious cocktail takes the traditional Old Fashioned to new heights, featuring the rich, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":685592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685672,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685591\/revisions\/685672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}