Post #633345 by Rawim on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 8:01 AM

Yea, I always enjoy when this topic gets brought back up.

Plus I was down at the Ti Saturday and had another Mistake to further my ongoing research.

ickytiki:
In regards to PiPhiRho’s post I was vigilant in watching mistakes being made this last trip, and what i saw:

there is a pour from a well used liquor bottle

I assume this to be the special gin/white rum mixthey used

there is a pour of yellow/cream-ish colored stuff

I am actually thinking this is the passion fruit flavoring, the reason i say this is that I have been wondering where the Ti gets their passion fruit/mix/flavoring/juice from? I notice they use Finest Call products fairly openly. Their bloody mary mix, the grenadine, etc. So I am wondering then if they use the Finest Call Passion Fruit puree as their passion fruit flavoring. I don't think they use it at full strength as the stuff is much thicker and a bit darker then what is in the Ti's bottles but perhaps a 1:1 puree to water ratio. Just my current thoughts

there is a pour of red/browinsh liquid

this is a pretty common ingredient in a lot of tiki ti drinks the bottle gets called for a lot. the contents have laways looked more brown to me than red, but i am also partially color blind so I can't be held accountable. the question is what is in this flavoring? Is this where the almond flavor comes from? Is this maybe almond flavor comes from? also is this possibly where the lime flavor comes from too? is the lime juice mixed with other ingredients to make this mix? the main thing is that I don't think this is the passion fruit mix, as most passion fruit mixes and purees are yellow in color and not red with the exception of fee brothers and i don't think the ti uses fees

i am also pretty sure there is another pour of clear liquid from one of the mix bottles

I am guessing just simple syrup

mix with ice (They have four nice new mixers down there now, very nice and easy to clean.)

pour in glass, healthy float of coruba.

As far as my hypothesis on the creme de noyeax, the only reason i propose that over the orgeat, is that I just thought the drinks almond tasted more my it had the creme in it rather than orgeat. But after thinking through more, I do have to concede they probably do just use orgeat. In fact Finest Call does make an orgeat, I have not tried it yet, but i think something may reside there, perhaps a passion fruit/orgeat/water mix is the yellow/cream color mix?

Otherwise I like where you have gone with your recipe, but I really don't think there is any pineapple juice in the drink. I myself don't taste it, and most drinks with pineapple really foam up (Like the piankiller) and I don't see the Mistake foaming up that way.

The research continues!

Big Kahuna:

I completely agree. It is fun to just guess at what goes into the fabled drink. It certainty must be mysterious as even beachbum berry has not been able to reproduce the drink and that is pretty much what he does for a living now. Although there is rumor that there is one bartender who used to work in new york and now works here in LA that makes a very very close approximation of a Ray's Mistake. I have not been able to contact him yet, but I am trying.
In a way I don't think we will ever get it right, but it is fun to try and gives something to do in our home bars sunday through tuesday when we can't be at the tiki-ti.

Okole Maluna!