flair bartending - Beyond Tiki

STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Tiki Socialite Carson, California Joined: Aug 20, 2002 Posts: 2813	STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Posted posted on Tue, Nov 14, 2006 3:57 PM I too was getting concerned with the casual Flairmongering going on. Sure, you may say, "What's the harm with tossing the bottle of Curacao over your head during an otherwise routine Mai Tai?", but that's how it starts. Before you know it, you find yourself serving Pink Squirrels to girls just because they're cute and that's what they ask for. It's all a gradually eroding of your mixology morals. Once you start on the slippery slope of Flair, it's hard to climb back up. Let's not forget the function of a well-crafted Polynesian cocktail. Which is To Get Girls Drunk. And you can't do that with fancy behind-your-back, over-the-shoulder, mystery-pours where centrifugal force, evaporation, and dizziness are all working against you. That may impress the girl technically, but it won't get her into your bedroom. For that you need her to actually believe that you're handsome (at least I do), and to do that I need carefully measured pours. I need to know exactly how many ounces of alcohol a woman has consumed at any point in time in the evening. How else will I know when to spring "The Care Bear & The Dalai Lama" joke and have her laugh instead of slapping my face? Only through scientific management of the inebriation experience. Let's not forget our mixology roots here, folks. Sabu

I too was getting concerned with the casual Flairmongering going on. Sure, you may say, "What's the harm with tossing the bottle of Curacao over your head during an otherwise routine Mai Tai?", but that's how it starts. Before you know it, you find yourself serving Pink Squirrels to girls just because they're cute and that's what they ask for. It's all a gradually eroding of your mixology morals. Once you start on the slippery slope of Flair, it's hard to climb back up.

Let's not forget the function of a well-crafted Polynesian cocktail. Which is To Get Girls Drunk. And you can't do that with fancy behind-your-back, over-the-shoulder, mystery-pours where centrifugal force, evaporation, and dizziness are all working against you. That may impress the girl technically, but it won't get her into your bedroom. For that you need her to actually believe that you're handsome (at least I do), and to do that I need carefully measured pours.

I need to know exactly how many ounces of alcohol a woman has consumed at any point in time in the evening. How else will I know when to spring "The Care Bear & The Dalai Lama" joke and have her laugh instead of slapping my face? Only through scientific management of the inebriation experience. Let's not forget our mixology roots here, folks.

Sabu

Post #266720 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Tue, Nov 14, 2006 3:57 PM