Post #376077 by Registered Astronaut on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 12:53 AM

Positive response? I'm astounded. Usually it's a pretty cold reception around these parts. The blueberry Mojito is pretty damn delicious- at the bar we use Stoli Blueberi vodka..you just do a normal Mojito base (lime, sugar syrup and mint) plus fresh blueberries, muddle about seven blueberries with the mint, add stoli blueberi and club soda. My bar manager likes us to add a dash of Blue Curacao, I guess to drive the point home, but personally I would skip this measure. The blueberries muddled make a beautiful, natural purple shade in the drink. We have a hibiscus trees outside the house we can use the flowers for garnish it looks really nice.

I am kinda limited at the bar- I have fresh lime and lemon juice, Perricone's brand. But I don't have passion fruit syrup. We use Island Oasis purees (you've seen 'em at any bar in Hawaii, they make a blue hawaii puree, a mango puree, a banana, rasberry, etc...) and apparently they make a passion fruit syrup but we don't order it. If we did, a whole new option of drinks would be opened up: zombies, TV grog, Rum Keg, and the like. We deal with the Bacardi reps (which you'll be unhappy to hear are super nice, so are the rums of Puerto Rico guys) so we only have Bacardi brands and meyers, but if you know Astronaut's post history you'll know he can use Bacardi select as a demerera replacement...so navy grogs are a possibility. But in all honestly, I'd steer you towards tiki-ti above all.

[ Edited by: Registered Astronaut 2008-05-01 20:59 ]