Yes, I love the pineapples. Every day I eat about a half of a fresh pineapple for breakfast.
The other day, I was thinking about that I’ll drink a rum cola after dinner while I was cooking, and when I was hollowing a pineapple preparing it for the morning breakfast an idea comes to me…and I reserve the hollowed pineapple on the fridge.
The 31st of July 1970 was the last day on which the Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily rum ration: the daily tot, for that reason, this day was known as The Black Tot Day.
Another syrup very used on tiki drinks is the Vanilla Syrup.
This is a very easy syrup to make at home, you only need sugar, water and vanilla beans, and, of course, the homemade version is always better than the commercial.
In a recent day trip to the south of France, I bought some rhum agricole of Martinique and I was tempted from the first moment to follow working on the rhum arrangés. My first experience was a rhum arrangé sugar cane, vanilla and raisins and now I want to try some more fruity and because I was able to pick some apples directly from the tree…I wanted to do something with apple…and what could work well with apples? Of course: Cinnamon.
My friend Mauri Jiménez send me a new cocktail creation to share with all the Three of Strong readers, there’s a very good drink with two Plantation rums, citrus juices and the caribbean touch of our beloved Falernum.
The past 29th and 30th of June we received in Barcelona the visit of Daniele Dalla Pola making a Tiki Tour with Coco Rèal, in collaboration with Cocktail Shop Barcelona. They made on the 29th a Tiki Party in Kahala and the 30th two tiki masterclasses in Cocktail Shop.
I assisted to the afternoon tiki masterclass and finally met in person Danielle!!!
Yes!!!He did!!!Our tiki friend Jason Alexander wins the Iron TikiTender 2014 the past 12th of July!!!
After the four rounds of the competition (Make the most Mai Tais, Most Garish Garnish, Tropical Trivia!, Secret box ingredient) the judges decided that the $1000 are for Jason Alexander, and Felix Fernandez and Marie King shares the second place and wins $250 each. Congratulations for the champion and the great contenders!!!!
Looking inside of tiki cocktail books we could be surprised for some strange ingredients, and one of the most used is the Falernum.
Falernum is a spiced syrup original from Barbados, flavored with lime, cloves, ginger, and almonds…and depends on the recipe another kind of spices. Falernum could be alcoholic and non-alcoholic it depends on the version of it.
Yes, this is really a Dark & Stormy, the Bermuda’s national drink…but because of the trademark of this recipe by Gosling’s, if we want to call it Dark & Stormy we have to make it with Gosling’s Black Seal Rum and Gosling’s Stormy Ginger Beer…and what happens if this rum or this ginger beer dislikes us?Or if we prefer another rums or ginger beer brands? The thing what happens is what I call The Perfect Storm: The Dark & Stormy for people who wants to make the things on their way.
One of my hobbies is make experiments related with the mixology. After a long time working on experiments about bitters, I tried a new thing: rhum arrangé.
