Post #633154 by ickytiki on Sat, Apr 21, 2012 2:35 PM

I had an epiphany today… I was thinking about the “Ray’s Mistake” today at work and remembered PiPhiRho’s post:

I have watched Mike mix this drink many times. It is always mixed from unmarked bottles, except for the coruba. the recipe is this:

• a pour of clear stuff from an unmarked bottle
• a pour of yellow stuff from an unmarked bottle
• a pour of red stuff from an unmarked bottle
• maybe something secret down below the counter
• a splash of soda water (as with almost all the drinks they make)
• Shake, pour and strain into a highball glass
• float with Coruba

It seems to me to be the best account of how the drink is made. And my thought that Creme de Noyaux might account for the almond flavor might be wrong. Then it hit me… Couldn’t Tiki Ti’s orgeat simply have almond extract in it? Why not, right?

So this would eliminate the Crème de Noyaux all together and bring back the right color to the drink as well!

-Red Stuff:
1 oz Passion Fruit Juice
-Clear Stuff:
1 oz White Rum
1 oz Barton’s Gin
-Yellow Stuff:
1 oz Lime Juice
1 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Orgeat (with drops of almond extract in the recipe)
1 oz Simple Syrup
-Splash of 1 oz Club Soda
-Float Coruba Rum

Plus this seems even more close to the only known recipe (from LA) that has been posted previously. However, you are replacing 'simple syrup' for the sweet 'n' sour and 'orgeat' for the coconut milk. I would guess that the average Joe wouldn't know about simple syrup and orgeat and would have innocently made those substitutions.

Man, I think this is getting close!

[ Edited by: ickytiki 2012-04-22 18:51 ]