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Let's Go Bananas
Fresh and enlivening. This banana cocktail is a delight and makes for a great and most unusual aperitivo. Be sure your bananas are ripe/overripe - you'll...
Florian Ruf
17th May 2025 at 12:46
Made several cocktails and unintentionally doubled the measure of vermouth. I do not say it is better, but at least the result is very good and interesting.
5th May 2025 at 13:25
Using Absinthe instead of Pastis (same proportions), I found today that a Absinthe spray on the ready cocktail in the glass gives a nice touch.
26th April 2025 at 17:53
Okay, I broke my promise... I suggest Havana Club 3yo because of the a bit more rum taste. For this cocktail I would never use a rum without distinctive taste like Bacardi blanco,
13th July 2023 at 18:08
This cocktail gets even better by blending with ice than shaking.
28th January 2023 at 12:28
Amazing taste but please, give me the tips for "fine" strain this ^^'
8th March 2023 at 11:27
I just bought a new strainer, and it is true, the "right" fine strainer is the key
Yummi yummi
Yummi yummi
28th January 2023 at 13:38
Having the right fine strainer helps - a large capacity with a mesh that is not too fine. (e.g. the Cocktail Kingdom Coco strainer we sell.) Using a bar spoon to agitate and push through helps, as does knocking the side of the strainer with the base of the tin you are pouring from.
22nd July 2022 at 11:37
Last post to this cocktail, I promise. I did the original recipe today. Very good, but we agreed that Simons version results in a better cocktail ;-).
31st December 2021 at 16:51
We did it again and liked it at least the same as the first time.
6th November 2021 at 23:23
Excellent cocktail. I used overripe baby bananas which gave a delicious flavour and replaced the pastis with absinthe. This worked simply perfect.
3rd June 2020 at 20:59
You really need to specify what quantity '1 spoon' means. I made the exact recipe and used a barspoon of pastis - about 7.5ml - and the pastis totally dominated the drink - the banana flavour was way in the background. I think 2.5ml, or even a rinse, would have been about right.
4th June 2020 at 07:14
Nicolas's original Legacy recipe specified "1 spoon" and this is usually considered as being 5ml as per Bonzer spoon so I have changed the above recipe to stipulate this as you suggest.