Post #350505 by tin_omen on Wed, Dec 19, 2007 10:17 PM

On 2007-12-19 09:10, arriano wrote:
Speaking of "Sippin' Safari," anyone know if and when this book's recipes will be added to the Grogalyzer?

A few months ago I offered to send Swanky the drink ingredients and portions tabled out in an xls. But he said what's lacking is time, more than readily-usable data. :^P

On the topic of mixing drinks from Sippin' Safari: I don't know about you folks, but since it lacks a spiral binding, and won't lie flat, I've taken to copying out recipes as we try them, into a moleskine, to improve their legibility, try to preserve the book's binding, and finally, the notebook makes for a better medium to make "notes" on the drinks.

So, since we've been talking about both SS and Grogalyzer, I figured I'd post up Grogalyzer-style ratings and comments on what we've made so far:

*Jet Pilot 8 "Used Starbuck's cinnamon syrup. Pretty spicy. This syrup may be a bit 'hot' for the drink. Cut back a bit".

*Don's Beach Planter 7 "Pineapple.... rum... not terribly sweet. Nice. Deserves another pass and further evaluation."

*DTB Zombie (1956 Cabaret) 7. "Used Luxardo maraschino. Pretty strong maraschino liqueur flavor. Should use a tad less"

*DTB Zombie (1934 Dick Santiago's) 9. "damn near perfect!"

*Luau Grog 8. "Moderately sweet. Nice balance of rum flavor. Goes down smooth"

*Don's Own Grog 7

*Nui Nui (using telescope's shortcut recipe - pimento dram batch has another three weeks of stewing to go). Pretty good, but I'm withholding a formal rating until I can make it with real dram for comparison.

*Guatamala Cooler 8. "Very refreshing. Wahine particularly likes"

*Kon-Tiki Mai Tai 8 (to celebrate a fresh batch of ginger-infused sugar syrup). "It may not be 'true' to the original recipe, but I'm dying to use more ginger-infused syrup next time.".

*Sunakora 8, "another pretty solid sweet drink. Once again the Wahine sincerely likes".