Post #684761 by AdOrAdam on Fri, Jul 5, 2013 4:11 PM

Hi guys

The point of this thread is 'how do you mix yours?'

By this I mean:

When you get a new drink to try out or on your steps to 'perfecting' a drink do you...

E.g.

• Follow the recipe to the letter?
• Follow it approximately?
• Garnish appropriately?
• Try different versions (e.g. Don The Beachcombers Vs Trader Vics)
• Compare different rums?
• Use expensive rums?
• Substitute styles of rum? (i.e. swap a bajan for a jamaican?)
• Return to the same rums in each style?
• Approximate that half a lime = Xml of juice?
• Use canned / pre squeezed?
• Substitute lemon / lime?
• Add more citrus?
• Add more bitters?
• Add more sweetener?
• Add more Pernod?
• Use absinthe?
• Leave out Pernod or absinthe?
• Use cubed or crushed ice as your go to?
• Blend it because you like it?
• Tweak it because you think it has promise?
• Try it in a bar to compare?
• Etc etc...

I hope this can be a sharing of different methods!

What do you do?

[ Edited by: AdOrAdam 2013-07-05 16:22 ]