Post #485982 by JenTiki on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 1:09 PM

The assumption that I often encounter when a person says they don't like tiki drinks, is that they really don't like rum. Many people think they don't like rum because their only encounter with it has been bad Bacardi rum & coke (or something similar). Once a person learns to like rum, it's not that hard to get them to like tiki drinks. Therefore, I think rum flights are a great idea. Forbidden Island has several rum flights in their rum book. Some flights are based on the country of origin, another is all spiced rums, while one is simply "Exceptional Rums." Rum flights are as easy to produce as a wine or tequila flight because you just open the bottles and pour, wasting nothing. Once you've tought a person that he/she really likes rum and just didn't know it, graduating to tiki cocktails is a much smaller step.