Salvadoran Party Banana with Ron Colón Red Banana Rum - Food with a difference by Jan Ohrt

About Ron Colón Red Banana Rum Oleo:
"The vision? Creating the perfect blend of flavours, inspiring us and our fellow bartenders to create new rituals and cocktails centered around an entirely new take on rum. Because who doesn't want to experience some surprise every now and then?"

It all started in 2018 when two good friends from California, Thurman Wise and Pepijn Janssens went on a 22-day bar cruise to Central America, ended up in El Salvador and fell in love with what they saw and experienced. They were both already working in the industry at the time and when they were excited by the quality of the country's two most recognized commodities, they immediately thought, we must make a rum with coffee. They did and it was a huge success. Enthusiastically, they have since embarked on other visionary experiments and the latest addition is a seductive rum with banana.

In El Salvador, a banana is not just a banana, they exist and are grown in a multitude of varieties and one of them is called banana rojo, a little red cousin full of vitamins and antioxidants that is also planted on coffee plantations to provide shade for the beans. Since Ron Colon had been successfully playing with drink combinations on their classic dark rum and an oleo saccharum made with banana rojo, they found it natural to go all out and create a finished rum based on these themes.

First of all, don't be fooled by the purple colored bottle, I think it was chosen to stand out on the bar shelves. A little too Ibiza for my taste, but whatever. The contents are a beautiful amber gold with good viscosity and the nose is immediately hit by a captivating and sweet tropical aroma with fresh sugar cane and banana in the foreground. The taste is super-rich on banana and caramel, giving you a hint of coffee and sweet berries as well as a little funk from the traditional pot-still in the background. The finish is pleasantly long, sweet and distinct.
About the cookbook: Mad med promiller
Over the spring, the two owners of the Nordic region's largest liquor store, Ulrik Bertelsen and Henrik Olsen, have been working to realize a long-standing dream. With the help of a good friend of the house, Jan Ohrt, the book Mad med Promiller #1 is now a reality and it was presented on Saturday, August 5, 2023 at an informal premiere in the more than 400^m2 store at Vejstruprødvej 15 in Sjølund.

The project has been created with the benevolent support of some of the store's suppliers and the idea is that it is given free of charge to customers every time they buy a bottle that is represented in the book. Whether physically from the store or from the webshop. The book is printed in 1000 copies and no more are being made, so you should probably not wait too long.

You can buy the book, but if you buy one of the products below, it is included in the purchase.(1 piece per order):

Quinta Do Noval Black Reserve Port
Fary Lochan Sweet and Spicy Moscatel #01
Tanqueray London DryGin
Jack Daniel's Old no. 7 Tennessee Sour Mash 7 Tennesse Sour Mash Whiskey
Fary Lochan Gin Citrus
Highland Park 12 years old Viking Honour
Johnnie Walker Black Label 12 years old
Copenhagen Classic Gin
Talisker 10 years old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
CopenhagenClassic Vodka
The Singleton 12 years old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Copenhagen Classic Single Malt Whisky
Wódka Vodka
Rum Nation Meticho Chocolate and Toffee
Boulder Spirits Straight Bourbon Whiskey
RonColón Salvadoreño Red Banana Oleo Rum
Ron Colón Rumzcal 33/66 Salvadoreño
Big Peat Whisky 12 years old
Søgaards London Dry Gin Organic
Windblown Whisky Søgaards Distillery Limited Edition Danish Whisky
Maclean's Nose Blended Scotch Whisky
Tequila San José Silver
Murray McDavid Single Malt Auchroisk Bourbon Finish
Mezclado,Dark C
Nordisk Brænderi Filippa Apple Brandy