Post #718981 by Destro100 on Mon, Jun 2, 2014 5:38 AM

More drinks in old-fashioned glasses please
Drink 64: Shark's Tooth

Ingredients I used:

Fresh lime juice
Pineapple Juice (Dole canned)
Simple syrup (1.5-1 / sugar to water ratio)
Plantation 5 year rum
Coruba Dark Jamaican rum
Tillen Farms, Maraschino Cherries

This was a solid drink. Interesting, but not too interesting. Tasty, but not too tasty. Unique, but…you get the point.

Rum flavor dominates the drink. There is a good reason for this. Incorporating the Barbados rum into the initial blend, allows the base of the drink to be quite strong, and then by adding the dark Jamaican rum as a shot (almost like a float), you are ensuring that both, the initial taste floating on top is strong, as well as the flavor at the end of the drink. I'm pretty sure that is why the drink suggests NOT using a straw; the shark's tooth is meant to taste boozy all the way through.

I enjoyed the way the pineapple and fake cherry juice come together to provide an interesting fruit combination. Lately, I've been using Tillen Farm cherries; they use natural ingredients and are reasonably priced. I can't see spending over $15 for the Luxardo brand. Especially since I've grown up accustomed to the junky fructose corn syrup cherries that most bars carry.

The combination of rum was very nice. I have to thank heylonine and his superb "5 Minutes of Rum" podcast for introducing me to the Plantation line of rums. They are superb! Upon further research around the internet, I do see that I should have gone with Appleton 12, and perhaps that might have even bumped my score a bit. Live and learn. The drink might also benefit from a spice note or a dash of bitters.

This is a very solid sipper.

My personal rating: ***1/2 (3.5) out of ***** (5)

SCORECARD:

4.5 ALMOST PERFECT - 3 drinks so far
Chief Lapu Lapu / Kikuya Lapu / Mai Tai (Trader Vic)

4 - EXCELLENT - 12 drinks and counting
Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch /Aurora Bora Borealis / Outrigger / Bourbon Special / Beachcomber's Gold (Hollywood and Palm Springs) / Hell in the Pacific / Krakatoa / La Florida / Tortuga / Mai Tai Swizzle / 151 Swizzle / Port Light

3.5 - VERY GOOD - 19 drinks and counting
Beachcomber's Punch / Coronado Luau Special / Hawaii Kai Treasure / Coconaut / Castaway (slightly modified) / Don's Special Daiquiri / Banana Daiquiri / Captain's Grog / Viking Fog Cutter / Navy Grog / Hurricane / Lani-Honi / Mariposa Fizz / Mai Tai (Stuft Shirt) / Never Say Die / Pago Pago / Painkiller / Q.B. Cooler / Shark's Tooth

3 - GOOD - 16 drinks and counting
Eastern Sour / Astro Aku Aku / Kapu Kai / Western Sour / Beachcomber's Gold (Waikiki) / Red Tide / Samoan Fog Cutter / Gold Cup / Headhunter / Fogg Cutter / Noa Noa / Aku Aku Lapu / Mai Tai (Royal Hawaiian) / Missionary's Downfall / Strip and go Naked / Polynesian Paralysis

2.5 - ABOVE AVERAGE - 4 drinks and counting
Jasper's Jamaican / Derby Daiquiri / Carioca Hawaiian Cocktail / Hawaiian Room

2 - AVERAGE - 8 drinks and counting
Beachcomber's Gold (Chicago) / Lychee Nut Daiquiri / Fog Cutter / Von Tiki / Planet of the Apes / Rum Runner / Pieces of Eight / Polynesian Spell

1.5 - BELOW AVERAGE - 2 drinks and hopefully not too many more
Boo Loo / Royal Daiquiri