Post #587647 by leisure master on Tue, May 3, 2011 10:58 AM

HH - you and Nick did a great job at the jamboree and you certainly got my coin in your bucket (wait, does that sound a bit dirty....).

Seriously, I really enjoyed your drink and had a great time overall at this event.

I don't think all of the competitors had a proper enough understanding of the Zombie in order to put a proper twist on it. For example, some of the competitors were booze reps pushing company product and not necessarily tiki-drink geeks.

Not that this ncessarily makes for a bad drink (and actually just about all of the drinks were interesting if not decent - some too sweet), but some contestants seemed to just crank up the proofage on a cocktail that was not nearly a Zombie in order to make it "qualify" as such.

Of course it did not help anyone's cause that the crowd was voting after we all had consumed several Mai Kai libations during happy hour and the Bum's presentation....

I'm not an alcoholic, I'm an enthusiast.

[ Edited by: leisure master 2011-05-03 10:59 ]