Post #587797 by TikiHardBop on Wed, May 4, 2011 10:20 AM

Hurricane: TornadoTiki and I thought that your entry and the entry from the UK were the two best entries. All the rest seemed to be just overly sweet concoctions with a higher-than-usual booze content. And this may be blasphemy on this site, but I'm not a huge fan of either sweet or fruity drinks.

Being an engineer and someone who is known to over-think things (when I'm not drinking, that is), I had a hard time with the basic assumption of the event. What exactly qualified each drink as a "Zombie"? The UK entry didn't have rum, but a mixture of gins, and some didn't have a mixture of base liquors. And of course, ingredients were all over the place. So I was left with having a hard time determining which was the best "Zombie" since I didn't have a baseline of what characteristics determine a "Zombie" and it ended up, at least in my mind, on just a popularity contest on which drink tasted the best and not what was the best take on the Zombie.

I'm running into the same thing when preparing for the Hukilau competition. I'm hoping there are some more concrete guidelines on what will determine a "Barrel of Rum" vs. some drink that contains all the sponsored ingredients and just tastes good (read: sweet).