Saying goodbye to an old friend... - Tiki Drinks and Food

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Jan 4, 2008 12:23 AM It was a tough year, friends broke up, friends moved away, Tiki Bars closed....and now this: Tonight I am enjoying the last drops of my last Dagger Rum. Some people might recall my excited post about discovering this extinct rum at the Mai Kai: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13196&forum=10 It seemed that Kern had a source that was regularly supplying the Mai Kai mixologists with this fine liquid, and I was looking forward to replenishing my stash on the occasion of the Hukilau...only to find out it was no longer available when I got there. Well, at least I had the joy of time travelling with each sip of this dark delight. I was in good company. Vinyl archaeologists here might be familiar with this classic LP cover: Some say I am living in the past, but hey, who wouldn't with drinking pals like this! Among the rums I sip, some work better with an ice cube in it. Not this guy, it needed to roll around my tongue unchilled, its flavor enveloping every taste bud to the max. How did such a decent drop ever end up in a plastic "lightweight pack with built-in pourer"? Like Tiki bars until recently, this type of dark, rich rum had fallen out of favor and probably was viewed by the bottling company as old stock that only out-dated places like the Mai Kai would still use, out of habit. For a moment there, I thought I could luxuriate in a case-full of that stuff, just like old Bob Mitchum surely did for featuring that bottle so visibly with his visage. By coincidence, I found a still from the same photo session... I love those Scopitone-style minimalist sets. But rum is there to get drunk, and life is to be lived, and new discoveries await! Happy 2008! (Or was that life is there to get drunk, and rum is to be lived...?) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-01-04 00:27 ]

It was a tough year, friends broke up, friends moved away, Tiki Bars closed....and now this:

Tonight I am enjoying the last drops of my last Dagger Rum. Some people might recall my excited post about discovering this extinct rum at the Mai Kai:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13196&forum=10

It seemed that Kern had a source that was regularly supplying the Mai Kai mixologists with this fine liquid, and I was looking forward to replenishing my stash on the occasion of the Hukilau...only to find out it was no longer available when I got there.

Well, at least I had the joy of time travelling with each sip of this dark delight. I was in good company. Vinyl archaeologists here might be familiar with this classic LP cover:

Some say I am living in the past, but hey, who wouldn't with drinking pals like this!

Among the rums I sip, some work better with an ice cube in it. Not this guy, it needed to roll around my tongue unchilled, its flavor enveloping every taste bud to the max. How did such a decent drop ever end up in a plastic "lightweight pack with built-in pourer"?

Like Tiki bars until recently, this type of dark, rich rum had fallen out of favor and probably was viewed by the bottling company as old stock that only out-dated places like the Mai Kai would still use, out of habit.

For a moment there, I thought I could luxuriate in a case-full of that stuff, just like old Bob Mitchum surely did for featuring that bottle so visibly with his visage. By coincidence, I found a still from the same photo session... I love those Scopitone-style minimalist sets.

But rum is there to get drunk, and life is to be lived, and new discoveries await! Happy 2008!

(Or was that life is there to get drunk, and rum is to be lived...?)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-01-04 00:27 ]

Post #352877 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 4, 2008 12:23 AM