To continue using my dear Blackstrap rum I was thinking about some options or twists where I could use this kind of rum.
Date Archives June 2014
Three Dots and a Dash
Reading the Beachbum Berry’s Sippin’ Safari I found an interesting classic tiki drink: Three Dots and a Dash.
Palito de Ron
In my recent visit to Ron Montero Distillery they share with us a recipe created by their founder Francisco Montero: the Palito de Ron.
Visiting the Ron Montero Distillery
At the beginning of this month I travelled to the south of Spain, more specifically to Motril, a sub-tropical climate region at the foothills of Sierra Nevada, near of Granada. The reason of this travel…
Blackstrap Special
This recipe is my own twist of a drink of the 50s: the Bourbon Special, featured at Steve Crane’s Kon-Tiki restaurant chain. This tiki drink was created for Bourbon drinkers…and I used it like inpiration to…
Trader Vic’s Grog
Today i’m going to talk about a cocktail of one of the fathers of the tiki drinks: Victor Bergeron, also known as Trader Vic. I chugged this drink for the first time at Tahití Bar in Barcelona…
Coca-Cola VS Fentimans Curiosity Cola
In the actual market we can find a lot of new and premium mixers for our drinks, and if we think in rum, the most popular mixer in which we think is cola. The most popular…
Colonel Beach’s Plantation Punch
Searching something to drink in my small library of tiki drinks books, I took the Beachbum Berry Remixed of the master Jeff Berry, the real bible of tiki recipes. I was looking for a drink…
Corn & Oil
The Corn & Oil is one of my favourite rummy drinks. It’s a typical Bajan drink made with rum, falernum, bitters and fresh lime juice, but the proportions of each and the exact ingredients are…
Authentic Caribbean Rum Certification Programme – Part 2
In the practice session we first taste the rums neat, and later we taste how it works in some cocktails.