Sumatra Kula - Tiki Drinks and Food

P PalmtreePat Tiki Socialite Los Angeles, CA Joined: Oct 07, 2014 Posts: 360	P PalmtreePat Posted posted on Thu, Nov 12, 2015 7:30 PM On 2014-03-30 14:57, Quince_at_Dannys wrote: The Tiki Ti Sumatra Kula is a gorgeous bright green, and tastes great! I asked Mike Jr. a couple nights ago, and he said it was some secret Green Passion Fruit syrup. I don't think it's the Fee Bros, since that stuff has a not-so-subtle phony mint flavor; maybe it's the green fassionola. Or it could be some homemade stuff. Or he could be throwing a green red herring in my path. Other than the green look the Tiki Ti version of the Sumatra Kula is similar in flavor to their other family of "Kula" drinks: QB Kula, Planters Kula, Barbados Kula. Probably the same base of juices and sweeteners with a variance in the rum selection. An ambitious Tiki Ti regular could probably backwards engineer them all using the known recipes that are out there and tweaking appropriately ' I ordered a Sumatra Kula from Greg last night and managed to glean a little bit of information about the drink (I was three drinks in already at the time so this might be a little fuzzy). It seems that the drink contains both "green passionfruit" and "red passionfruit". Greg apparently put a little too much of the red in when he made the drink, which resulted in it having a grayish color rather than the usual vibrant green. He had Mike taste it, and he seemed to confirm that it had the about the right flavor, just the wrong color. When Greg rectified the mistake and brought a new, bright-green Kula over, I asked him if it was green fassionola that gave the drink its color, and he said yes. There's still something else in there that's distinct but hard for me to identify; maybe the Tiki Ti's "green fassionola" is homemade and incorporates something besides the passionfruit that is apparently its base?

On 2014-03-30 14:57, Quince_at_Dannys wrote:
The Tiki Ti Sumatra Kula is a gorgeous bright green, and tastes great! I asked Mike Jr. a couple nights ago, and he said it was some secret Green Passion Fruit syrup. I don't think it's the Fee Bros, since that stuff has a not-so-subtle phony mint flavor; maybe it's the green fassionola. Or it could be some homemade stuff. Or he could be throwing a green red herring in my path.

Other than the green look the Tiki Ti version of the Sumatra Kula is similar in flavor to their other family of "Kula" drinks: QB Kula, Planters Kula, Barbados Kula. Probably the same base of juices and sweeteners with a variance in the rum selection. An ambitious Tiki Ti regular could probably backwards engineer them all using the known recipes that are out there and tweaking appropriately

I ordered a Sumatra Kula from Greg last night and managed to glean a little bit of information about the drink (I was three drinks in already at the time so this might be a little fuzzy). It seems that the drink contains both "green passionfruit" and "red passionfruit". Greg apparently put a little too much of the red in when he made the drink, which resulted in it having a grayish color rather than the usual vibrant green. He had Mike taste it, and he seemed to confirm that it had the about the right flavor, just the wrong color. When Greg rectified the mistake and brought a new, bright-green Kula over, I asked him if it was green fassionola that gave the drink its color, and he said yes. There's still something else in there that's distinct but hard for me to identify; maybe the Tiki Ti's "green fassionola" is homemade and incorporates something besides the passionfruit that is apparently its base?

Post #753918 by PalmtreePat on Thu, Nov 12, 2015 7:30 PM