Tucano’s
277 Goulburn Avenue, Surry Hills
Tucanos.com.au
For this month’s Threeway, The Home of Angostura teamed up with the parents at Tucano’s to showcase a collection of cocktails highlighting the bar’s signature spirit – rum and their favorite go-to ingredient Angostura Bitters.
With summer season simply across the nook, every of those drinks is an ideal all-night sipper, that includes choices comparable to a scrumptious alcoholic model of an Angostura Lemon, Lime & Bitters (see the Summer season Lime & Bitters), the refreshing Orange Crush, and, after all, the basic Outdated Cuban. This drink, a implausible twist on the Mojito from bartending legend Audrey Saunders, substitutes soda for Champagne.
Kudos to Bec Bayley and Steve Davis from Tucano’s for his or her inventive drinks and for internet hosting our photoshoot. Make sure you go to them this summer season and luxuriate in a few of their delectable rum cocktails.
About Angostura
Angostura is usually related to its famend Bitters, tracing its origins again to 1824 when Dr. Siegert started crafting Angostura Bitters in Angostura, Venezuela. Angostura BItters is a mainstay of all backbars. If you must have a bitters, it’s in all probability Angostura. The success of this may be traced again to Siegert’s sons who pioneered using bitters in meals and drinks within the Seventies.
The rum side of the model actually emerged post-Siegert, along with his sons relocating the enterprise to Trinidad after his passing. To craft their iconic vary of rums, Angostura depends on Trinidadian molasses and has retained the identical yeast strains because the inception of manufacturing. They use a twin distillation method permits Angostura to masterfully mix a various array of rums.
The core getting old course of happens in ex-bourbon American white oak casks, housed throughout 5 warehouses totaling between 60,000 to 80,000 barrels. These casks are usually reused as much as 3 times earlier than being both discarded or recycled. Submit-aging, the rums endure meticulous mixing to realize their distinctive profiles.
The Bitters
The Iconic Angostura fragrant bitters, infuse cocktails with complicated natural flavors, a mix of spices, and a contact of bitterness. Angostura orange bitters, a vibrant variation, provides zesty citrus notes to drinks, elevating basic and fashionable cocktails with a pleasant, fragrant twist.
The Rums
Angostura Reserva affords a dry style with heat vanilla flavors, ending easily with hints of tropical fruits. Its readability makes it excellent for fruit-based cocktails. With a medium-bodied palate, it options coconut, molasses, and traces of apple.
Angostura 5-year-old is a mix of sunshine rums aged in bourbon casks for 5 years. It boasts fragrant woody notes, chocolate, vanilla, and tropical fruit flavors, ultimate for pairing with spices or sipped neat over ice.
Angostura 7-year-old is a strong rum with flavors of maple, chocolate, honey, and toffee, ending in a basic rum end. Silky and full-bodied, it reveals its true character when allowed a second within the glass, excellent for sipping neat or on ice, and it additionally makes distinctive combined drinks.
ORANGE CRUSH
30ml Angostura 5yo
15ml Italian Orange Aperitif
30ml mango nectar
10ml sugar
20ml lime
4DS Angostura orange bitters
High soda
Shake and pressure right into a Collins glass.
High with soda.
Garnish with mint sprig & orange wheel
SUMMER LIME & BITTERS
30ml Angostura Reserva
15ml lime oleo
4DS Angostura fragrant bitters
High mandarin soda
Construct in a elaborate tall glass.
Garnish with skewered lime zest
OLD CUBAN
An ideal refreshing fashionable basic.
6 entire mint leaves
30ml easy syrup
20ml lime juice, freshly squeezed
45ml Angostura 7 years
2 dashes Angostura fragrant bitters
60ml Champagne, chilled
Shake all substances (excluding Champagne)
Pressure & prime with Champagne
Garnish with a mint sprig
