Welcome Friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark today we're going to do a cocktail
out of this the floridita cocktail book
this was published in 1937 or 1938 in
Havana Cuba and it's a promotional piece
given out by La floridita bar in in
Havana
um and lists pretty much their entire
cocktail menu for That season of of
partying in Havana in this time period
Havana was the Las Vegas of the United
States
um and so we're going to do a rum
cocktail and it mixes two different rums
called specifically for uh Bacardi Carta
Blanca and Bacardi Carta Oro and I'm
going to use these two Bacardi rums uh
this one is in a in a tester bottle but
it says that it's Ocho
um
we got a bunch of stuff from Bacardi to
taste and try out and so I'm going to
use that but I'm also going to use two
contemporary
Havana Cuba rums and so we're going to
start out they both get a teaspoon full
of sugar
so in with a teaspoon full of sugar
this one we're going to use the Cuban
rums so we're going to start out with
the Ron kubei
one ounce and this is a Blanca
and then we're going to use their Anejo
Reserva
they both get an ounce of pineapple
juice
and so this is the current Bacardi Ocho
or eight-year-old
rum
and then the Ron Bacardi the Maestro
um
it's a Blanca
then they get a few drops of Maraschino
and so everyone argues what a drop is
let's see
if I can get the same amount in each one
I'm going to call that a drop
there we go and I will ice and shake
these one at a time
foreign
so what do we have today
we have
um
because I'm not going to get it correct
we have two rum cocktails
claudoscuro Bacardi okay so it's two
different cut types this one okay two
different types of Bacardi rum okay and
an aged and this one is kubei and Havana
okay pineapple and uh luxardo marschino
well
let's give it a try
okay
not sure yet no
oh okay not that one yeah
not that one not that one
this one's good
which is I don't know which one's which
but so this is the Bacardi okay and this
is the Havana and the kubei
this one's a little bit harsh isn't it
like it it really cuts into you
you have to like rum
you're not a huge rum fan I'm not a huge
rum fan so it's kind of a tough a tough
but you know maybe a little extra
pineapple for me might uh round it out a
little bit for me and rum is I mean you
can say this about any base Spirit rum
whiskey gin
even even at this point vodka I was
going to say historical vodka no but the
modern vodka with all the flavors
um
everything is different there's such a
wide variation you know you can say
whiskey but well you know bourbon
bourbon is a whiskey but it's completely
different than a scotch whiskey which is
different from an Irish whiskey which so
when you get into rums there's so many
different
types of rum and and traditions in
making rum
hmm
I think I know exactly someone in my
family who would love this though but it
is very run forward like it I mean
obviously it's got two different types
of rum that are bringing two different
sort of things to it
I'm on the fence about rum I could you
know take it or leave it I don't think
I'd order that rum wouldn't be my first
drink to order at a bar no as indicated
by the bias of Arjun yes choices so
um
an interesting experiment interesting to
taste the different rums together I
would say that if you like rum yeah
you're gonna love you give this a try
yeah you'll love that if you like if you
if you're a rum Drinker you'll love that
uh maybe not so much this one
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