Syrup
Velvet Falernum Style
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Velvet falernum style is the lightly alcoholic, clove-lime-almond Caribbean mixer associated with John D. Taylor and tiki bars: sweet, spiced, a little grassy. It is a liqueur-syrup hybrid, not a dry spice drop. A quarter-ounce in a rum drink is plenty. In a marinade it reads as sweet clove. Non-alcoholic falernum is the other leaf.
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Unit
Characteristics
Preparations
Quarter OunceRum Cocktail
Traits
Bar BottleBarbadosClove Lime AlmondLight AlcoholNot DrySweet SpiceTikiVelvet Name
History
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Barbadian falernum was a house spice-lime-almond sweetener for rum.
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John D. Taylor Velvet Falernum fixed the commercial alcoholic style.
Tiki revival made velvet falernum a required bar bottle.