Crafting The Flavour Of Falernum With Liquid Alchemist

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While we’d be hard-pressed to believe that cocktail syrups are the Elixir Vitae or ‘elixir of immortality,’ spoken about in ancient Alchemy, for lovers of tropical drinks, Falernum is not far off.

So it’s unsurprising that US Premium Cocktail Syrups brand, Liquid Alchemist has just launched their own Falernum, the most recent addition to their stable of flavours.

To find out more, we talk to a modern version of an alchemist, former bartender and Liquid Alchemy founder Randy Tarlow about flavour, tropical cocktails and the importance of Syrups to the balance of a good drink.

Chapters

1. Crafting The Flavour Of Falernum With Liquid Alchemist (00:00:00)

2. Now you founded Liquid Alchemist back in 2009. How did that come about? (00:01:31)

3. Create the syrups to be shelf stable must have been a bit of a learning curve. (00:02:48)

4. How important have bartenders been in spreading the message of the brand? (00:03:52)

5. Now I must say one of the things I rather like about the brand is that you present your bottles in different sizes (00:05:36)

6. Can you take us through the range and indicate which are the more popular ones? (00:07:11)

7. How important are syrups to the canon of cocktail ingredients? (00:08:35)

8. I assume people have been asking for the Falernum for a while, because it is an essential for tiki or tropical cocktails (00:10:19)

9. Tell us exactly what falernum is. (00:11:39)

10. And which cocktails can you use it in? (00:12:57)

11. I imagine it ois one of those syrups that's a bit fiddly to make at home (00:13:59)

12. Talk us through the process of making a syrup like this (00:15:21)

13. How many iterations did you have to do before it was right? (00:17:42)

14. I imagine there would be countless recipes with different measurements and different ingredients. How do you work out which one go with? (00:18:45)

15. How is your falernum different from say John D Taylor's Velvet Falernum? (00:21:07)

16. Dod you create any drinks for the launch? (00:24:00)

17. What has the reaction to the Falernum been among bartenders and consumers? (00:26:56)

18. You mentioned earlier that you have nationwide distribution (00:27:59)