Posts Tagged ‘Los Valientes’

May
14

Plantation Rum @ Trailer Happiness

By Will Lowe, http://willlowe.blogspot.com/

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Trailer is a legendary bar for a host of reasons. Their fantastic tiki menu, bewildering rum range, and ability to create world famous bartenders being just three of them.

Furthermore, the infamous ‘rum club’, an event which sees innocent rum representatives (such as myself) succumbing to the allure of alcohol in the name of education.

On Monday, May 10th, I had the pleasure …

Jan
05

Los Valientes Winter Old Fashioned

By Will Lowe

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The Will Lowe

It’s a recurring theme with Los Valientes. Almost without fail, when a bartender is left to play around with this molasses / sugar cane blended rum, they will end up creating a variation on the classic Old Fashioned recipe.

I believe this is due to the fact that the rum is very well balanced already. It simply does …

Dec
18

New/old fashioned

By Will Lowe

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I’ve got a new toy. It’s a 0.5 ltr Mosa Nitrous Oxide Cream Whipper. Sounded very masculine until that last bit…Anyway, I’ve decided to put it to the test. And of course, a new toy calls for a new recipe! Starting out with my all time favourite rum, I made the basic inroads towards a rum old fashioned. A bar spoon of demerara sugar, …

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