![]() I love using blue curacao in cocktails, not only for the blue color but for the unique bitter and sweet flavor of fresh oranges. So now it is my turn to create a new Mardi Gras inspired cocktail. I was in New Orleans a few months ago and had one myself at the famous bar that created them. Everyone knows that one of the most famous signature cocktails in New Orleans is the Hurricane. Just because you may not be headed to New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras you can still bring the colors and flavors of the party right to your own celebration. We’ve received compensation to create this post however, the opinions expressed are 100% our own. This post contains sponsored content brought to you by Cocktail Artists. I suppose ordering kerosene was not as cool sounding as ordering a hurricane.It’s Mardi Gras time again and we are celebrating this year with a brand new cocktail called the Mardi Gras Blue Hurricane. Not that anyone cares about the science or design of dead flame lamps, so I will end it there. This cocktail instead uses the iconic tapered top design the kerosene lamp uses to prevent air from entering the light from the top. Therefore, a standard indoor kerosene lamp doesn’t have to worry about high winds and does not have this tubing. The Hurricane lamp is a cold or hot blast lantern that redirects air through tubing along the sides so high winds do not extinguish the flame. ![]() Personally speaking, this glass looks like a standard indoor kerosene lamp. The name for the hurricane comes from the hurricane lantern, which the traditional serving glass for this drink looks like. I built my recipes knowing that red is supposed to be fruit punch, gold is passion fruit, and green is lime and guava. Again considering there is no definitive recipe for fassionola, make something fun and tropical. I’ve made my own, and it turns out pretty good. It’s not uncommon to find individuals who want fassionola to make their own. There is an eBay seller who ships these original fassionolas, but it seems distribution is limited to the San Diego area. The new owner still makes the classic Jonathan English red, green and gold fassionolas. It is widely rumored that the Jonathan English company went out of business, and it was, but before the company went entirely out of business, it was bought by a new owner. The gold was primarily passion fruit flavored, the red was fruit punch, and the green was mainly lime and guava. ![]() Jonathan English made Gold, Red, and Green fassionola syrup, each with a unique flavor. The History Of Jonathan English Fassionolaįassionola was a line of tropical syrups made by the San Diego-based Jonathan English company. If you have some information I don’t have, please send me an email or comment, letting me know. The creator Pat O’Brians gives one recipe, Jeff Berry gives another, and then adds modifications. No one can agree upon a single original recipe, and it doesn’t appear that it was written down. Even Jeff Berry says the original used fassionola instead of passion fruit syrup. Other well-researched authors state it was not 4 oz of dark rum but 2 oz of both dark and light rums (I can’t remember the source, but I remember reading it). At the same time, a very reputable source, even Jeff’s recipe, is disputed. Jeff Beachbum Berry states in “Beach Bum Berry’s Remixed” that the original recipe is 2 oz lemon juice, 2 oz passion fruit syrup, and 4 oz black rum. Now while the origins of the hurricane are pretty much agreed upon, the original hurricane recipe is widely disputed. ![]() This will get you drunk, which is the best way to experience New Orleans. The result is this massive and boozy drink with a lot of juice and sweetener to hide the whopping 120 mLs (4 oz) of rum. With tons of unused rum about, the owner of Pat O’Brians decided to mix a drink using as much of it as possible. The story goes that the folks who controlled the import of European spirits jacked the prices way up and set conditions that for each bottle of European spirits purchased, a certain amount of the more plentiful but less desirable Caribbean rums had to be bought too. The hurricane was invented in the 1940s during World War 2 at Pat O’Brians in New Orleans. Still, I believe the classic Jonathan English red fassionola is not as cherry-forward as my recipe. My red fassionola recipe is cherry-heavy, so this cocktail has a strong cherry flavor. The red fassionola hurricane is terrific, and maybe it’s the inner child in me, but I like its fruit punch flavor.
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