Nathalie O Flynn

Sipping this right now, as I don’t have Havana Especial I used a bit of gold rum and Appleton to make up the measure and decided to turn it into a tiki cocktail with all the decorations cork monkeys 🙈 etc.. This is very very pleasant indeed

Just lost my comment (error) will try again tomorrow and type it in Notepad first

I substitute the Havana especial for Havana 3 or bacardi carta Blanca to get more rummy cocktails

I was just wondering with which rum I could substitute as there is a cocktail which calls for this one but I don’t have it and won’t buy it as there are only 10 cocktails calling for it.

Indeed very complex and in fact it gets better as you sip it. I must say, it's a good call to have swapped the dry vermouth with the milder Bianco brother.

I recommend you move to the Bronx (Difford's Version) :)

Thank you for doing a cocktail for my day :).

It's down to your personal taste. I tend towards a light gold, but others prefer with a touch of pot still. Different rums also suit particular cocktails.

just sipping this one with some amber one and it is really nice. Thanks for the info

That's because I consider Havana Club 3yo a light gold rum.

Ohh OK so should I not use a standard gold rum Angostura style or the likes ?

I am seeing several recipes where in the listing it shows light gold rum but when going into the recipes they call for light rum like Havana Club

Substitute Scotch and Drambuie for rye/bourbon and Benedictine, and you have a sweeter riff on David Embury's version of the Bobby Burns.

yeah let's make a Bobby Burns then lol

I was planning to make this just now till I saw 2.5ml of Angostura bitters, not sure now

well just sipping this and can't believe how good this is, a 4.5 for us, this is totally unexpected. Am a sidecar fan by the way lol

I was planning to make this just now till I saw 2.5ml of Angostura bitters, not sure now

Oh my that was such a 5* for us, all our fav ingredients

Wow a 5* for us what can I say,, another great discovery

A 5 star for us

I don't know who this guy is but am going to do all of his cocktails lol

I also used Maraska Maraschino which isn’t quite as funky as Luxardo. I’m sure it would be a fine drink either way.

Funny I used to have a colleague called David Kennedy, back in the 80’s. A great guy.

From the comments I didn’t think twice to reduce the Maraschino, bye only a little bit. It was a fine cocktail, most enjoyable

Just had this and it was very very good and got my husband to do the moustaches, he did really good

We used Red Breast 15 year

Just had this and it was very very good and got my husband to do the moustaches, he did really good

gosh the guy in the video is good lol

Heaven in a glass, this was not planned but just saw it and as we had a chocolate dessert thought it would be perfect. Hubby made it, it was great but noticed too late he omitted the coffee liqueur lol so making it again Sunday 🤣😂

Finally got around to making this yesterday. It was really nice and my type of Tiki cocktail. I used passion fruit puree instead of the pulp as it makes a mess in the shaker lol. Also added a bit of OFTD in the passion fruit shell.