This is based on the Aloha Cocktail by Hank Riddle, 1970, who worked as a bartender at Don The Beachcomber in Palm Springs, with the addition of fresh grapefruit juice and replacing the Puerto Rican rum with Maritinique Rhum Agricole Blanc. Since I made it by mistake when attempting an Aloha, I’ve called it the
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Another twist now on the famous cosmopolitan, this time with a rhum from Madagascar. 2 oz 6 cl Dzama Rhum Cuvée Blanche Prestige, 40% ABV 1 oz 3 cl Fresh lime juice 1 oz 3 cl Cointreau, 40% ABV 1 oz 3 cl Cranberry juice Add the lime juice, rhum, and Cointreau to a shaker.
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1 oz 30 ml Myer’s Original Dark Jamaican Rum 1 oz 30 ml Clément Rhum Vieux Agricole VSOP ½ oz 15 ml Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao Triple Sec ¼ oz 7.5 ml Orgeat 1 oz 30 ml Fresh lime juice 1 tsp 5 ml Bar syrup 1 dash 1 dash Dale DeGroff’s Pimento Bitters (optional)
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been mixing Caipirinhas since 2005. Recently I have discovered rhum agricole, which is produced from sugar cane juice instead of molasses as most other rums and since cachaça is also made from sugar cane juice, not necessarily in exactly the same way, I thought I would try
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As I was experimenting with the Pisco Sour, see previous post, we were also working our way through a Rum Advent Calendar – maybe a separate post later – where one of the 24 rums included was the KARUKERA Rhum blanc agricole 50%, which particularly took my fancy. I thought it might work instead of
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