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Subject: Re: my Newest Cocktail Mint Passion
From: apetail
Posted: Mon Jul 11. 2011, 23:10 UTC
Followup to: "Re: my Newest Cocktail Mint Passion"  by Pedro Arantes  (Mon Jul 11. 2011, 21:27 UTC)
> > > Hi all,
> > > made this one up, pls tell m what u think;
> > > 
> > > 4cl Havana Club 7 Aņos;
> > > 4cl Monin Passion Fruit Purée;
> > > Juice of 1 passion Fruit;
> > > 1cl Monin Passion Fruit sirop;
> > > 
> > > all in the shaker,
> > > rim glass inside with;
> > > Monin Dark Chocolate sauce,
> > > 
> > > Strain into the glass and add;
> > >  
> > > 1 Scoop of Mint/Chocolat Carte DīOr Ice cream
> > > 
> > > what do u think?
> > 
> > Adding components to already existing drinks is a widely used trick 
> > 
> > to obtain new ideas. However there are other ways as well. Especially 
> > 
> > complex and/or large systems may benefit from removing components 
> > instead of adding them.
> > 
> > This drink makes me wonder about two aspects. 
> > - I've always seen chocolate and mint as a very delicate combination. 
> > 
> > They create harmony as a duet. The same is true for such combinations 
> > 
> > as fruit and rum or rum and chocolate. This mixture with the four 
> > components (rum,fruit,chocolate,mint) is very difficult to make it 
> > 
> > work at it's full potential. Can you really balance a quartet out of 
> > 
> > those well known duet (or possibly trio) combinations? What purpose 
> > 
> > should such quartet have?
> > - This one is related to the other aspect. You are suggesting to use 
> > 
> > a fairly complex rum. Is it's excellence still kept intact after 
> > adding so many other additional flavours? The age of the rum makes 
> > 
> > for a mellow flavour which combines well in this recipe but I am 
> > afraid that the other highlights of this very nice rum are not much 
> > 
> > preserved.
> > 
> > What do you think of these ponderings?
> 
> 
> hello and thank you for ur ponderings,
> iīll try 2 awsering them all.
> 
> first of all i didnīt realised there was a cocktail that was so 
> similar to mine, still donīt know and iīm hoping u can tell me what 
> it is and where 2 find it.
> 
> u can see the final result of my cocktail in my Facebook page 
> searching me by name Pedro Arantes or e-mail 
> pedroarantes[at]hotmail.com.
> 
> iīm an afficionate of Rhum, Tequila and Mezcal and therefore i 
> believe iīve a pretty good knowledge of textures and flavours that 
> each them have.
> 
> u donīt loose any of itīs flavour althought it doesnīt enhabnces it 
> either. this is meant to be an after-dinner girls drink. it was 
> created on a base of what girls think of love... the sweet; the 
> aphrodisiac; the mellow; all put together with the warm embrace of 
> rhum.
> Rhum is a warm drink that embraces u and takes u a level up. itīs not 
> like vodka or gin. itīs sweetness and flavour itīs ideal to make a 
> woman fall in love.
> tried same cocktail with other Rhums like Brugal; Negrita;Barceló; 
> Matusalen 15 Aņos  or Legendario among others except Bacardi (wich i 
> donīt see it as a full body rhum) either Carta Blanca as anejo or 
> extra anejo. Havana was the one that gave me, for itīs complexity, 
> the best comprimise of flavour and strengh to handle all the 
> ingredients i wanted to add.
> the purpose of add so many passion fruit items was only to enhance 
> all teh flavour that this aphrodisiac fruit as and balance it with 
> the strengh of the Havana without overcoming it.
> this is a cocktail that as 2 textures. itīs supposed to be tasted 
> through a spoon, thatīs why and i think u didnīt understood, only the 
> rhum and Passion fruit items go to the Shaker and then simple 
> strained 2 a cocktail glass previously rimmed with the dark chocolate 
> sauce. after all of this, u just simply let a single Mint/chocolate 
> scoop of ice cream fall inside the Glass. this ice cream as 2 
> purposes: 1st its a wonderfull flavour created by Carte DīOr and a 
> very passionate one; 2nd as the passion fruit and rhum becomes rather 
> sweet it helps to balance all itīs sweetness throughout the cocktail 
> even if when the ice cream is fully mealt and alters the texture of 
> the cocktail.
> 
> at first zipps u have all the beautifull warm flavours of the rhum 
> with the sweetness of the passion fruit and the fresh ale of mint 
> while at the end u have the final explosion of lust mellow flavous. 
> like i said it was thought for girls; its made for girls and until 
> now all that have tasted it ( and there are many...) all of them 
> loved it. it was made thinking about sex and meant for sex. :-p
> 
> If u see it clearly, itīs not a quartet of flavours but a threesome: 
> Rhum, Passion fruit and ice cream and you should try it when u get 
> the chance and see how it goes. :-)
> thank you for your question

What a nice explanation of your drink. It really benefits this website but 
also the internet in general. There are so many plain recipes distributed, it 
becomes a plague. I still see the drink as overly complex but I can appreciate 
it now. Things which are overly done still can be very good.

-- 
"Question everything..."


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