Post #759538 by wupput on Mon, Feb 22, 2016 10:25 PM

So I finally got some lemongrass and tried making one of these. It came out pretty well but I think I may have made a mistake with the syrup.

I boiled the cut up lemongrass stalk for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile I crushed the whole dried cardamom pods a bit and then added those, reboiled, added the sugar, cooled, and strained. The syrup did have a nice lemongrassy flavor but it might have been overwhelmed by the cardamom. Or, my strainer may have been too coarse and tiny bits of cardamom may have been suspended in the syrup, because it had a bit of a cardamom kick aftertaste. It wasn't unpleasant but a bit unbalanced.

Another problem was I ran out of white rum in the middle and had to substitute half Barbados gold, which did affect the flavor profile.

Also, with the coconut I used Coco Real but I think it would be better with Coco Lopez.

And about 2 oz of soda per drink.

Still, a pretty good drink! I am going to get some Selvarey and try with that and maybe re-strain the syrup to get out any floating cardamom bits.

[ Edited by: wupput 2016-02-22 22:27 ]