Funky Monkey Drink

There are so many tasty rum drinks to try! Dark rum is an aged rum with a dark brown color: it has a deep, caramel flavor with notes of cinnamon and spices. Dark rum is less common in rum cocktails: here are some of the top dark rum drinks:What’s in a Brass Monkey? This drink is a a bit of a free-form cocktail: the ingredients and quantities can vary. But most recipes include the following ingredients:

Many claim that the Brass Monkey is equal parts dark rum, vodka and orange juice. But taste that, and it’s pretty unremarkable. The flavors taste muddy and uninspired. For a more balanced drink, we suggest increasing the orange juice to this ratio:The Brass Monkey is a cocktail made with dark rum, vodka and orange juice, sold as a premixed cocktail in the 1970’s and 80’s. It was sold by the Heublein Company, which later dissolved in 1998. It’s not considered one of the greats, but the drink did inspire the 1980’s Beastie Boys song of the same name: and not the other way around! (We’re hoping it’s now stuck in your head. You’re welcome.)

Taste a Brass Monkey made with the correct ratio, and it’s refreshing and easy to drink with a very subtle fruity finish from the rum. But in all honesty? It’s not one of our top choices when it comes to cocktails. It lacks complexity and doesn’t make the most of the dark rum. Here are some ideas for ways to vary this drink:We’ve gone bananas over this cocktail – this is the perfect frozen cocktail recipe! It combines the refreshing mint and lime flavors of our mojito mix with a hint of banana and coconut from the rum. Don’t forget the paper umbrella and you’ll feel like you’re in a tropical paradise!

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(-) Information is not currently available for this nutrient. If you are following a medically restrictive diet, please consult your doctor or registered dietitian before preparing this recipe for personal consumption.Place the hot coffee, banana, condensed milk, chocolate syrup, and protein powder into a blender. Hold down the lid of the blender with a folded kitchen towel, and carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the coffee moving before leaving it on to puree until smooth. Divide ice cubes into 4 large glasses, and pour coffee mixture over the ice.

This is what you should be drinking if you’re in the vicinity of a porch and a rocking chair. A light iced tea is easily spruced up with spiced rum to give it some depth and personality. If you really want to get wild, use a hard iced tea like Twisted Tea or Not Your Mama’s Iced Tea. The mix gets even better if you add a splash of lemon juice or follow Arnold Palmer’s lead and add your spiced rum to a 50-50 mix of iced tea and lemonade.Are you the type of person who puts an extra pump of flavoring into your coffee every morning? Let spiced rum step in instead (when you’re not strolling into work right after, of course). Spiced rum and, if you’re feeling fancy, a touch of cream can make even the most bland coffee interesting.A simple Rum and Coke is one of the most recognized bar orders, and it’s been in the drinking lexicon in one way or another since the early 1900s. Spice up the traditional mix by using spiced rum instead of white rum. The vanilla and cinnamon flavors in the rum blend perfectly with familiar Coca-Cola and give the soft drink a boosted flavor profile.Anything tropical is a natural fit for spiced rum. If you really want to get fancy, shake the juice and rum together with ice and get it nice and frothy. Or, if you’re on the islands and feel like being the envy of every person who passes, hollow out a pineapple, juice it and drink the rummed-up concoction straight out of the fruit.

Spiced rum and ginger beer is no Dark ‘N’ Stormy (that specifically requires Goslings), but it’s delicious nonetheless. Opt for a dry ginger beer to temper some of the inherent sweetness of the spiced rum. For best results, treat it like a carefully measured Highball by making it with 1.5 ounces of spiced rum and 4 ounces of ginger beer.Back in the early days of rum, infusing it with spices was the easiest way to make the raw spirit palatable. Pretty much any edible plant could make its way into local mixes back then. Today, things are a little more consistent, and vanilla, cinnamon and clove are usually the main flavor components, along with things like nutmeg, orange peel, allspice and cloves. With all of those rich flavors already present in the rum, it’s easy to find a mixer that works. Here are the seven best things to mix with spiced rum.

Apples and spiced rum may be from completely different parts of the world, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a more compatible couple. This goes for all types of apple, too, whether it’s stirred into cold apple juice over ice, dropped into hard cider as a shot, or stirred into hot cider in the winter. If it’s a juice made with apples, then it’ll mix well with spiced rum.Hit the lemonade stand this summer because this mix is a stunner—kind of like if a Lynchburg Lemonade went to the Caribbean. Tart, fresh lemonade brightens up spiced rum’s heady vanilla, clove, cinnamon and nutmeg flavors. If you like things on the sweeter side, simply opt for a sweeter lemonade.

Take your banana flavor to a regal dessert side with this creamy martini. You can also turn this into a 99 Bananas shot by cutting the portions in half.Don’t scroll by this recipe just yet — the subtle banana gives this old-fashioned a new spin without the banana taking over. If you want a bolder banana flavor, you can infuse your whiskey, too.Banana is a unique and challenging flavor to capture, especially in a cocktail. But once you’ve captured that magic, you’ll be the one teaching all of your friends your tricks. Crack open your bottle of 99 Bananas liqueur and whip up a few of these delicious cocktails.

What happens when you mush several bananas and a coconut into a glass? You break the glass. Thankfully, you have this recipe to pack those flavors into an unbroken glass. Pop your banana split dessert into a martini glass. There is no need to end your day with disappointment when you realize you don’t have any ice cream. Like other 99 Bananas recipes, you can easily enjoy this as a shot by cutting the ingredient sizes in half. This cocktail is pretty easy to make, most of the ingredients just get tossed into a cocktail shaker. You can make a big batch if you want for summer parties.

Use your jigger to pour 3 to 4 oz of pineapple juice into the highball glass as well. If you don’t want to measure your pineapple juice you can just top the glass off with pineapple juice it should hold around 3 to 4 oz at this point.This drink has an optional garnish of banana slices. To add these simply peel a banana cut off a medium thick slice or two and add them either to the top of the glass or on the edge of the rim.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services, LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.The funky monkey is a creamy and smooth cocktail filled with banana and pineapple flavor with a hint of coconut on the back end. It tastes like the first day sitting on the beach after a long earned vacation.

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Remove the top of your cocktail shaker. Place your Hawthorne strainer on top of your cocktail shaker. And pour the liquid from your Shaker into the highball glass over your ice.

Try out the funky monkey drink if you are going on a tropical vacation or if you want to feel like you are on one. This creamy, sweet drink is like a sunny summer day.

Angel City brewers set out to make a refined Malt Liquor Mimosa aka the Brass Monkey of Beastie Boys fame. This lager is a 7.6% ABV Malt Liquor brewed with blood orange peel and then we added blood orange juice during fermentation. Then filtered bright but with a faint orange color. Light citrus aromas lead to a boozy, medium bodied beer that’s a little sweet up front with an orange zesty type dryness on the finish. It will have you humming Brass Monkey in no time. This beer gives you a License to Ill that can be enjoyed during brunch or just when hanging out.

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Please note that there are many ways and variations to make Funky Monkey. The Funky Monkey recipe above is the most common way to make this drink, you can always improvise with your own twist and enjoy. You can also find many other variations of this drink on our website, just use our search to see more.If you like this, try these! Below you can find similar drinks to the Funky Monkey recipe, in order from the most matching ingredients or similar ingredients to the least.

SBS acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country and their connections and continuous care for the skies, lands and waterways throughout Australia.Green Chartreuse and Galliano share a few flavours: both liqueurs are herbal and sweet, but the first has some spice and the second a vanilla taste. This cocktail is topped with ginger beer for fizz and citrus for freshness.

After a little bit of “research” on the amounts of each ingredient, we came up with the following recipe. Tweek the amounts to create the best blending of tastes for your palate!A while back, we were asked to locate the recipe for a Funky Monkey, a blended drink that FB friend Carol had enjoyed while vacationing in the Caribbean. We came across several versions, but most contained a delectable combination of rum, banana, coconut and chocolate…

If you grew up in the ‘90s, you probably became first acquainted with Brass Monkeys through the Beastie Boys song of the same name. That, or through a party that served up malt liquor with a splash of Tropicana as their signature drink. There’s no denying that the Beastie Boys were responsible for popularizing the Brass Monkey, but the origins of the drink are much more mysterious. In fact, the Brass Monkey they were rapping about was not orange juice and beer (or malt liquor), but a canned precursor to Smirnoff Ice.

“I’m guessing you’re inquiring about the Brass Monkey drink which is half a forty (generally Old English) of malt liquor with orange juice,” says Marisol de la Rosa. “We don’t serve a brass monkey. Also, our bar is not named after that brass monkey, but rather the nautical term ‘cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.’”Regardless of Stillwagon’s dissection of the “poor man’s shandy,” he was able to offer up some information on the real Brass Monkey—the one the Beastie Boys rapped about back in 1986. “The actual drink that is originally referred to in the titular song was actually fairly interesting in that it was one of the first pre-batched cocktails ever produced next to rock and rye. The Heublein company fabricated an entire elaborate marketing scheme that was rife with tales of World War II espionage and perplexity about it. I don’t think I’d like to consume the Brass Monkey anytime soon, though I’ve never been one to turn my cheek to a cocktail adventure.” Ad Roc might be disappointed. The rest of us? Hey, whatever works, right? If you want to mix your forty with orange juice, do so with gusto and reckless abandon. You chug that mixed drink like you’re a ten-year-old chugging… well… regular orange juice. As for the Brass Monkey the Beastie Boys sang about so many years ago? Pour one out. It’s shockingly hard to find any information about the origin story of the real Brass Monkey. In fact, a number of popular cocktails—the Bloody Mary, Cosmopolitan—have competing origin stories, perhaps because drinking histories can be the least reliable of all. Whose idea was it to pour orange juice into their forty? Where did it come from? There are some theories out there.