Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum Partners: Sammy Hagar & Rick Springfield, Toast to 40+ Years of  Friendship

Rum Partners: Sammy Hagar & Rick Springfield Toast to
40+ Years of  Friendship

Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum Partners, Sammy Hagar and Rick Springfield,
Toast to Over 40 Years of  Friendship with
Special Friendsgiving Rum Cocktails

The rock icons who have been friends since Hagar penned the Springfield hit
“I’ve Done Everything for You” in 1981, celebrates their second hit collaboration with
two cocktails featuring their award-winning Puerto Rico-made Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum.

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Rock n’ Roll Hall of Famer and spirits trailblazer Sammy Hagar, and his partner in Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, rock icon Rick Springfield, will celebrate Friendsgiving on Wednesday, Nov. 22, and toast to their friendship of over 40 years with two cocktails featuring the newly enhanced formula: Sammy’s Beach Bar Kola Spiced Rum.

The Puerto Rico-made Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum is Hagar and Springfield’s second hit together.
The two rockers first collaborated in 1981 when Hagar wrote “I’ve Done Everything for You,” which became a breakout hit for Springfield.

Somos Amigos (Spanish for “we’re friends”), made with Beach Bar Kola Spiced Rum, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice,
is a rum punch with a holiday twist that is perfect to batch for any holiday celebration or get-togethers with family and friends.

Somos Amigos Recipe:

• 1 ½ oz. Sammy’s Beach Bar Kola Spiced Rum
• 4 oz. fresh pineapple juice
• 3 oz. cranberry juice
• Garnish: fresh orange and pineapple wedges

Preparation:
In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add the rum, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice.
Shake well and strain into a Collins or Highball glass filled with ice.
Garnish with fresh orange and pineapple wedges.

Two Turkeys, featuring both Beach Bar Spiced Rum and Beach Bar Red Head Rum, is twice
the fun of a classic rum and cola, making it a breakout hit cocktail without having to spend the evening
stuck behind the bar doing everything for your guests.

Two Turkeys Recipe:

• 1 oz. Sammy’s Beach Bar Kola Spiced Rum 
• 6 oz. cola
• 1 oz. Sammy’s Beach Bar Red Head Rum
• Garnish: fresh lime wedge

Preparation:
Fill a rocks glass with ice.
Add Beach Bar Kola Spiced Rum and cola.
Stir well and float the Beach Bar Red Head Rum on top.
Garnish with a fresh lime wedge.

The recipes for both cocktails and more can be found in Hagar’s best-selling cocktail book:
Sammy Hagar’s Cocktail Hits: 85 Personal Favorites from the Red Rocker.

The premium Beach Bar Rum is crafted with all-natural ingredients including fine Caribbean
sugar cane and offers three versions:
–a newly enhanced Platinum white rum,
–a newly enhanced Kola Spiced rum and
–Red Head rum.

Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum is available for purchase nationwide, except in Hawaii.
More information can be found at sammysbeachbarrum.com/rums/.

About Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum:

Legendary rocker and spirits entrepreneur Sammy Hagar’s Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum offers a newly enhanced line of top-shelf rums including a Platinum Rum, Red Head Rum and Kola Spiced Rum.
In partnership with Rick Springfield, Hagar’s Puerto Rico-made Beach Bar Rum steeps island flavor into each bottle. Made with all-natural ingredients and the finest sugar cane in the Caribbean,
the rum is distilled three times to produce the finest rum in the world. More information
about Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum can be found on the website at SammysBeachBarRum.com, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

About Sammy Hagar:

For five decades, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar has been recognized as one of the best and most accomplished lead singers and songwriters in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the seminal hard rock ban;  Montrose, to his multi-platinum solo career, to his ride as the frontman of Van Halen, Chickenfoot, and his latest best-selling supergroup, The Circle.

Since opening his flagship Cabo Wabo Cantina in 1990, he’s turned a lifelong passion for great food, music, and spirits into a thriving and iconic lifestyle brand encompassing restaurants and spirits. He launched Cabo Wabo Tequila in 1996 and catapulted it into the #2 ultra-premium tequila brand in the United States, cementing his position as a spirits industry trailblazer. He sold Cabo Wabo Tequila in 2010 for what was at the time a record-breaking $100 million. He now owns an award-winning portfolio of top-shelf spirits and beer that embody that same spirit of Baja beach life and rock ‘n’ roll. They include Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, a partnership with rock icon Rick Springfield. Santo Spirits, a partnership with tastemaker Guy Fieri, Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co., and Red Rocker Brewing Co.

Made in Puerto Rico, Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum was founded in 2012 and comes in three varieties: the newly enhanced Platinum Rum and Kola Spiced Rum as well as Red Head Rum. Santo Spirits was founded in 2017 and now offers Santo Tequila Añejo, Santo Tequila Blanco, Santo Tequila Reposado, and Santo Tequila Blanco 110, as well as the innovative “Mezquila” – the world’s first tequila/mezcal blend. Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum steeps island flavor into Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co.’s top-shelf sparkling rum cocktails, founded in 2021. The canned cocktails come in four playful twists on classic flavors: Tangerine Dream, Pineapple Splash, Island Pop, and Cherry Kola Chill. A nod to Hagar’s Cabo roots, Red Rocker Brewing Co.’s inaugural release, Red Rocker Lager is a Mexican-style lager that is light, crisp, and refreshing, with just a touch of sweetness!

He’s also a #1 NYT bestselling author and recently released his first cocktail book, “Sammy Hagar’s Greatest Cocktail Hits,” which contains cocktail recipes inspired by his life’s journey. Hagar is a dedicated philanthropist whose private non-profit foundation focuses on food relief and children’s causes across the country. Visit RedRocker.com for more information.

About Rick Springfield:

Over the past four decades, Rick Springfield has worn many hats as an entertainer and performer. The creator of some of the finest power-pop of the ’80s, a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and musician
who has sold 25 million albums and scored 17 U.S. Top 40 hits, including “Jessie’s Girl,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “An Affair of the Heart,” “I’ve Done Everything for You,” “Love Somebody,” and “Human Touch.” He’s an accomplished actor who has starred opposite Meryl Streep in the feature film “Ricki and the Flash,” gave a chameleonic performance as the creepy Dr. Irving Pitlor in HBO’s prestige drama “True Detective,” and earned great reviews for his portrayal of Lucifer on the CW hit “Supernatural” and most recently played the insane Pastor Charles on FX’s worldwide hit series “American Horror Story.” An author as well, both his candid 2010 memoir Late, Late at Night (which Rolling Stone named one of the 25 greatest rock memoirs of all time) and his 2014 comedic novel Magnificent Vibration earned rave reviews and spots on the New York Times Best Sellers’ list. In 2014, Springfield was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located around the corner from the first apartment he lived in when he first arrived in the U.S. from Australia in 1971. Springfield’s Sirius-XM radio show, Working Class DJ, is a huge hit.  His new album “Automatic” was released in August. Automatic is his first album of all-new original material in 5 years.

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