Harry K. Yee: King of Tropical Cocktails - Tiki Drinks and Food

S Sunny&Rummy Member Melbourne, FL Joined: Jun 13, 2013 Posts: 601	S Sunny&Rummy Posted posted on Sat, Jan 25, 2014 3:41 PM Interesting, the Harry Yee Hawaiian Eye recipe you posted is in fact an entitely different cocktail than the Tony Ramos drink. The Ramos has lime juice, simple syrup, faleenum, and gold and white rum. The Remixed Tropical Itch recipe attributed to Yee is basically the same as what you posted but with three more ounces of passionfruit juice and the dark Jamaican rum swizzled in with the rest of the ingredients rather than floated on top. The first time I encountered Yee in print was in the very hit and miss Jennifer Trainer Thompson Great Tiki Drink Book, which was sadly my first introduction to Tiki home bartending before I discovered Grog Log. Unfortunately she gets it weong and attributes the poneapple and Coco Lopez-containing Blue Hawaiian to Yee and not the rum and vodka Blue Hawaii he actually did invent. That book also contains a mutated Tropical Itch recipe (with no attribution) that omits the bourbon and goes with pineapple juice and passionfruit syrup instead of juice. I thought this version was ok until I found the more authentic recipes with bourbon and passionfruit juice. [ Edited by: Bora Boris 2014-01-25 19:07 ]

Interesting, the Harry Yee Hawaiian Eye recipe you posted is in fact an entitely different cocktail than the Tony Ramos drink. The Ramos has lime juice, simple syrup, faleenum, and gold and white rum.

The Remixed Tropical Itch recipe attributed to Yee is basically the same as what you posted but with three more ounces of passionfruit juice and the dark Jamaican rum swizzled in with the rest of the ingredients rather than floated on top.

The first time I encountered Yee in print was in the very hit and miss Jennifer Trainer Thompson Great Tiki Drink Book, which was sadly my first introduction to Tiki home bartending before I discovered Grog Log. Unfortunately she gets it weong and attributes the poneapple and Coco Lopez-containing Blue Hawaiian to Yee and not the rum and vodka Blue Hawaii he actually did invent. That book also contains a mutated Tropical Itch recipe (with no attribution) that omits the bourbon and goes with pineapple juice and passionfruit syrup instead of juice. I thought this version was ok until I found the more authentic recipes with bourbon and passionfruit juice.

[ Edited by: Bora Boris 2014-01-25 19:07 ]

Post #705717 by Sunny&Rummy on Sat, Jan 25, 2014 3:41 PM