welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark today we're going to do a cocktail
out of this little cocktail book
produced by rum barbincourt
and this would have been given as a
souvenir at the distillery in haiti
sometime between 1928 and the beginning
of world war ii it's undated but based
on some of the things that are in here
you can kind of get that date range
now rum barbin court you're going to
notice is spelled with an h
that
means that it is a french style rum
which is different than an english style
rum or a spanish style rum and the
french style of rums
is made from freshly squeezed cane juice
so they squeeze the sugar cane
that resulting liquid is then fermented
into rum it's often called rum agricole
in french
versus english and spanish style rums
that don't have the h
and those are produced from molasses and
spanish style rums are actually spelt
r-o-n
although r-u-m is the english
translation
and depending on which island you're on
um
that use of molasses could be anywhere
from a really light molasses to a really
dark molasses which gives a different
style and body and taste and so on and
so forth
throw in the portuguese and they make a
rum
in brazil which is
the french style rum agriculture except
they call it cachaca which does not lead
to any confusion whatsoever so
there is other confusion and i'll get to
that at the end with the h here in
canada
now i'm going to do this two ways
i'm going to use
the barbincourt rum agricule but i'm
also going to use an english style rum
angostura and we'll see if that
translates into a difference in the
taste of the cocktail
so each cocktail starts with
some granulated sugar
two dashes of angostura bitters which
get everywhere
and this one is going to get the rum
barbarian core
and do i have enough
do i have enough
just
and this one is going to get the
angostura
now i'm going to ice and shake these one
at a time
and as you learned from the stirring
video
this part is edited
and we'll get rid of that ice
and double stream
and they get a lemon peel
as a garnish
so
it doesn't say to spritz the lemon over
top hey friends or run it around the
edge but you know
it makes for a better cocktail makes for
a better cocktail i think i appreciate
you making it special just for me thank
you so um
made with a french style rum a french
agricult and made with an english style
rum which
now here's the weird thing i said rum
french style rum spelled with an h
and english style rum is spelt with an
rum
yes
except in canada where we have a
language law that says every label has
to be translated both english and french
and so
they translate the french version
rum with an h but then on the english
side of the label it's rum without the h
and when you get an english rum
it's the exact opposite so you need to
know where
the rum came from in order to decipher
the label
it it tells you a little bit about the
style of what's in the bottle and where
it came from anyway that's my own little
thing so if you could get confused
if you were reading the label and you
said but it's spelled both ways glenn
what do you know
what do you know about anything which is
probably a fair point
that's a pretty decent
okay pretty decent drink so that's the
you've got the french rum you've got the
actual rum bar
and that one is the angostura rum okay
oh no
completely different no no it's not
right at all what what is this that
one's delightful
yes that one is delicious
no not at all what is this drink called
this is just cocktail rum barbarian cork
okay i like the
i like the simplicity of the name it's a
very simple drink
and it is a very clean flavor very nice
no not so nice
which is you know
here's the thing a lot of people get
down on my choices of what i bring out
for rums
and vodkas and all of that thing and so
you you really have to find one that you
like
and find one that works in a cocktail
and obviously coming from the distillery
they've
taken the time they've taken the time to
build their flavor made for their flavor
so
and this is the
senka 12
the fifth star five stars
dollar fifty or fifteen dollars a case
get this for fifteen dollars a case in
the 1920s
from
the distillery okay so
we'll have to fight over that we're
gonna fight over that one
explore rums explore the different
styles of rums um and
different rums from different islands
and different styles it's endless
absolutely endless
thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
you