Post #275293 by Chip and Andy on Thu, Dec 28, 2006 1:08 PM

On 2006-12-28 01:11, thinkingbartender wrote:
...Doesn't every bar keep a copy of the cocktail specifications behind the bar (laminated is optional)?

Every one of those things I have seen has been so totally wrong as far as the recipes go. Well.... wrong is not quite right, more like a recipe cheater for complete bartending idiots. If I see one of those behind a bar I immediately switch my order to a basic that can't be screwed up like a SoCo on the rocks.

I understand thier value behind a bar because you have to be able to make whatever your customers order and there is only so much storage space in the brain.... but why do so many of those laminated cheaters have such horrible recipes on them? Is there a market for making one of those things with 'good' recipes on it? Maybe we as the Tiki Nation can make a billion of them and take them with us and give them to our favorite local non-tiki bars as a public service. Maybe then we might get a decent Mai-Tai at your average bar.