Post #699445 by AdOrAdam on Thu, Nov 14, 2013 3:39 PM

On 2013-11-03 08:54, Destro100 wrote:
It took a long while but I finally feel ready....to tackle every drink in the tome of gratification that we know as Beachbum Berry Remixed.

Mr Destro100, I salute your endeavour :)

In a similar vein, I am working my way through the Tiki+ iPhone app to make a home menu of the best drinks.

At first I tried the 'names you know' & now am working more on the ingredients I think work well together. Seeing as you have already mentioned 2 drinks not in the Tiki+ app, I may have to work my way through Beachbum Berry Remixed afterwards.

I have currently had 39 of the 150ish. My general rule is to have one 'new' drink followed by what I fancy once or twice a week - I would estimate it has taken approx 8 months so far.

Out of those I have tried, 18 are good drinks that I'd make again & again - that's not to say that the others are bad, just that those 18 came together within 2 or 3 tries. Others haven't come together quite as well in 10 or so tries!

I'm by no means an expert but from my experiences I would advise:

1. Switching rums. Quite a lot of drinks work fine with the cheap stuff, others work better with the expensive. Some drinks benefit from switching between white/gold, gold/dark or dark/aged of the respective rum styles.

2. Double the non alcoholic ingredients in some drinks & all the ingredients in others (like in your Aurora Bora Borealis)

3. Compare drinks to one another. Some drinks have interesting similarities, in looking at the drinks history you can determine which was the 'parent' & which was the 'child' in that particular 'drink family'.

Cheers! :)