Post #430063 by jingleheimerschmidt on Thu, Jan 22, 2009 3:05 PM

Good job! I love the experiments. Funny, I just came up with a nearly identical version two days ago (no 5 star though). Similar scenario: a bunch of citrus that was going bad.

I tried every lime, lemon, passion fruit syrup, grapefruit, mandarin orange combo there was. Including (or excluding)orgeat, curacao, orange bitters, angostura bitters, vanilla, light rum, dark rum, aged rum.

Winter boredom/cabin fever has drained my liquor supply. I found some combos that work really well together. The short of it is that I was trying to come up with a simple cocktail for the masses when the weather turns nice. Essentially I recreated an "island-style" mai tai...or maybe it was a Rum Barrel knockoff. Oh well.

However, if you deviate ever so slightly from the published recipe, it's a new drink. Right?

Cheers!