Hello and welcome to behind my actual bar here at Bomba. We are actually kind of
potentially looking at filming here from now on so
welcome and hopefully you can kind of get used to this background.
It will probably be a few weeks, we've got another few episodes that we filmed over
at our sister venue Nomada still to come out, and then we have decided that probably moving forward
it's going to be a little bit easier to work around our rather busy lives, to just do it here
and then I'm already here to open the bar and it makes life a little bit easier for everyone.
But just to let you know that we we might be having a bit of a different look moving forward.
But what I'm actually here for is to announce the winner of the naming my unnamed cocktail,
which appeared in the amaro cocktails episode that we did a little while ago now.
I did really enjoy reading all the comments on there,
I think it was pretty clear that for you guys that Now You Know was a pretty clear
winner there and I also liked a few kind of plays around on that like the Now You Noni and the Now
You Know-Nino, in terms of, you know, Negroni and Amaro Nonino, that was very clever as well.
I did also like the Divine Deviation, given that it was a bit of a twist on a classic
but I think my favorite, and the the one that I'm gonna crown
the name of that cocktail is the Cariño, which came from someone called JLB,
and what he was saying was that he kind of merged my name Cara within Nonino to get Cariño,
and what that actually means is sort of fondness, affection or even love
which, you know given how I feel about Amaro and also Cocchi Americano, which is in that cocktail
it seemed quite fitting to me. And I do like a little double meaning in a cocktail name so,
I'm going to go ahead and say thank you very much, that is what it's going to be known as forever.
Now if you did miss the amaro cocktails episode and you have no idea what I'm talking about then
don't worry, we're going to take a little flashback trip to me actually making this
cocktail, so without further ado and thank you to JLB, here is the newly anointed Cariño cocktail.
At the trial shift for my first job in Melbourne,
which was at a bar called Lily Black's, the manager asked me
to make a Negroni but not a Negroni. So something along the same lines as that.
I'd recently discovered Amaro Nonino, which remains my favorite
and also Cocchi Americano. I combined that with a smooth rum and some cacao bitters.
It's a pretty tasty, desserty take on the classic bittersweet cocktail.
As always we're going to prepare our twist first. I am going to assume that given that I was trying
to impress that I did actually trim my twist this time, so we might do a slightly fancy one.
Now we did two dashes of Mr Bitter's cacao and macadamia bitters, this was actually made by
a couple of the guys that worked at that bar, which is pretty cool, so made here in Melbourne.
And then 30 mls of Amaro Nonino.
30 mils of Diplomatico Reserva, I certainly did not use this on my trial shift because it's quite
a nice one, but now that I run the bar I can use whatever rum I want, so I'm going to treat myself.
And then 30 mils of Cocchi Americano, and I think that works quite well
with the Amaro Nonino because this is kind of a softer and slightly sweeter style of amaro.
I think with these kind of richer and slightly sweeter flavors it really comes into its own.
Then we're going to fill our mixing glass up with ice.
It's been a while, it's real juicy.
Strain it over a nice big block of ice.
And then finish it off with a little quick sharp fold over the top with your orange twist.
Give it a little curl around so you can slot it in, and there we have the Cariño. So now you know.
Time to give this one a try.
I mean it's a bit hard for me to appraise this but I feel like I would have given me a job.
It definitely sits within that kind of balance of a Negroni.
Funnily enough, it's actually kind of manages to be a bit lighter, as much as it has rum as
the base spirit rather than gin, which is obviously a richer spirit, the other two are
get a little bit kind of more easy going and approachable than Campari, so it still manages
to actually kind of go quite you know summery and fresh and light, while also having those more
sort of chocolatey cocoa kind of notes just underpinning it, which does make it, yeah I feel
like you could actually kind of go either way with this one in terms of a digestif or an aperitif.
And it's just really juicy like for something that's all booze I guess you know the lower ABV,
of these and all of those kind of fruits and herbs and spices just really kind of come through in
this quite mouth-watering way. Yeah pretty stoked with that.
Glad it was as good as I remembered otherwise it would have been embarrassing!