Juan Pablo Dukart is the head bartender at Rico Tiki Bar (Mar del Plata, Argentina) and is one of the 10 finalists of the Bacardi Legacy of Argentina, he is just in the last step to have the chance of being the only one bartender from Argentina in the international final of Sidney (Australia). Today is the great day of the argentinian final and from here we want to send our support to Juan Pablo and his cocktail called World Traveller.
Rum Review: La Confrérie du Rhum Cuvée nº2 Guadeloupe 1998
Yes! They do it again!!!!I received a new sample from La Confrérie du Rhum and it’s the unequivocal signal: they are launching a new Cuvée!!!
Who are La Confrérie du Rhum? Well…they don’t need presentation here, I write about them before…if you don’t know who they are you could read about them here.
Rum Review: La Confrérie du Rhum Cuvée nº1 Barbados 2000
Past Friday I received a mysterious package from Luxembourg at home. This package contains a 5cl unlabeled bottle with a gold liquid and a press release with the title “La Confrérie du Rhum presents its Cuvée Nº1″…Wow!!!It’s an exclusive sample of a new rum!!!And it wasn’t sold yet!!!!
UK Rumfest 2014 : Experiential suites, Masterclasses and Guiness World Record Attempt
The UK Rumfest returns this 11th and 12th of October with over 400 of the more rare and diverse rums from across the globe. Features will again include seminars hosted by industry aficionados, a main stage with food from all over the world as well main stage presentations, holiday giveaways and live music and dancing.
Rum Review: Ti Arrangés de Ced’ Vanille Macadamia
Les Rhums de Ced’ is the personal project of Cédric Brement. He started creating rhums arrangés at home ten years before than he starts with Les Rhums de Ced’, testing his experimental products with friends and family, but, after, the friends of his friends started to order his rhums arrangés, and he decided to start with that project three years ago. Cédric had a great philosophy: he only works with fresh fruits, locally produced or transported by air, to ensure the freshness of the flavors and the aromas of the fruits. He only uses Agricole AOC Rhum from Martinique and Bourbon vanilla for his rum infusions. The fruits are cutted with knife and bottled by hand, making each bottle a handmade limited edition.
Ginger Drinks VS
Today I’m going to talk about another kind of good mixers for rums: The Ginger Drinks.
Here in Spain,the most popular is Ginger Ale, but on the contrary, in many countries this is the Ginger Beer…and I know the reason: there’s a more real and spiced ginger drink. I think that Ginger Ale is only a flavored soda, but the Ginger Beer in most of the cases had his own and peculiar character.
The Bitter Jamaican
Taking a look inside the cocktail book Left Coast Libations, in the chapter about the city of San Francisco, I found an interesting recipe of the bartender Yanni Kehagiaras called The Bitter End. Automatically, I needed to do it…but I wanted to make a twist on the rums…the recipe calls for a Flor de Caña Aged White 4 years rum, and I used the Rum Nation Jamaica White Pot Still. Also, I changed the Angostura Bitters for a Jerry Thomas Own Decanter Bitters and the Velvet Falernum for Homemade Falernum. I doubled the amount of juices in the recipe.
Pot Still Punch #2
On the past post, I made a review of the Rum Nation Jamaica White Pot Still Limited Edition 2014 and also published the recipe of the tiki drink Jasper’s Jamaican. Today, I’m still tasting that fantastic rum on cocktails and I think the best way is creating a new tiki recipe for the occasion.
Rum Review: Rum Nation Jamaica White Pot Still Limited Edition 2014
Rum Nation Jamaica White Pot Still Limited Edition 2014 is a wonderful and astonishing 100% pot still rum, distilled at the historical distillery in St. Catherine, Jamaica. It hasn’t been aged in oak ,distilled in 2013 and bottled in 2014 at 57% to preserve the character and smooth intensity of pot still distillation, without sugar addition.
Why my rhum arrangé banana, chocolate and vanilla has failed?
Yes, one month later I have to tell you that my rhum arrangé banana, chocolate and vanilla is a real shit…it has failed!!!!
From a few days ago I was looking that something was wrong with that rum…the other rhums arrangés are ok…but it was very cloudy and dark,and the sugar, bananas and chocolate makes a kind of dough in the lower part of the bottle.