Post #466515 by Beach Bum Scott on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 7:24 PM

Funny you should mention the Macadamia Nut Chi Chi I had never heard of one till the other day while listening to the Zen Tiki Lounge Podcast and they did that cocktail.
It sounded pretty good and I do like my Colada's and I like Macadamia Nuts so I figured I would give it a try, it was my introduction to Macadamia nut Liqueur.

I have always been a bit of a cocktail tinkerer. In the past I started mixing rum, coco, Orange Curacao with 7up as a cocktail that is when I learned about the foaming but it won't foam up if you put the ice in first so that was the way I have been making this unnamed drink for a while now.

When I saw Bens post I figured I could make this but use the Blue and the first one I made turned the foam blue. That is why I do the straw and funnel adding it last.
So now I had a blue cocktail with white foam but what to name it???

Being inspired by the theme of TO I wanted it to be a "old school" surf name and while working on the drink I had a surf film in the DVD being a long boarder I was thinking about nose riding terms and "Cheater Five" hit me as a good one.
But what to use as the 5th ingredient and I saw the Macadamia Nut bottle and figured why not.

The taste is similar but not quite like the Chi Chi as it's missing the Pineapple and has the Curacao flavor.

I like the idea of it being clear blue instead of cloudy, in person the drink is a solid blue on the bottom and about an inch up you can see the mix line where the coco/cloud starts. I like the Coco taste in the drink, but haven't tried it as you describe.
Hmmmm.
An excuse/reason to mix another.

I will be at the Oasis and would dig the chance to talk/drink cocktails with you.

To be continued....

[ Edited by: Beach Bum Scott 2009-07-02 19:26 ]