For this cocktail, I am using the award winning Straight Silver Rum from Spirit of Texas distilled in Pflugerville Texas, gifted to me from my friends at Spirit Hub! You can find this rum, as well as many other styles of rum from silver, aged, spiced, and more on their website. Something I like to do before making any recipes, is to taste the spirits on their own to get a sense of the flavors & notes, a quality spirit is going to taste just as good on it’s own as it will in a drink! This rum is no exception, modeled after a sipping tequila, it’s dry and smooth, it blends subtle butterscotch and vanilla flavors with a quick finish of black peppercorn that isn’t overwhelming or too biting.