Post #767761 by AceExplorer on Tue, Aug 23, 2016 10:50 AM

On 2016-08-23 02:25, TorchGuy wrote:
I bartend at a friend's party once a year, in the spring. Next year, I suggested a tiki theme-- proper tiki. I grabbed some recipes that I like drinking at bars occasionally, but I realized that I often forget to take note of which rums are used. Would other TC denizens please have a look at this list? I found these recipes online, and copied them with the descriptions given.

Wow, nice job, that's 11 drinks, and they're generally not super easy. First, I want to go to your friend's party too - I think you've done a nice job ensuring the drinks will be tasty and memorable. Second, with the complexity of all those, make sure you're not bringing too much to the party if the attendance will be high. You want to avoid getting overwhelmed while also maintaining good quality of the drinks. But if many of the folks will be drinking beer, then that will take some of the pressure off you. I hope it all works out so that you can present both good cocktails and good showmanship. I think you know this, so I hope I'm not stating the obvious. (Like having enough glassware on hand, plenty of ice to get you through the night, and speeding up mixing by using a top-down spindle blender, etc.)

I think the earlier post which suggests well-planned rum substitutions has made a very good point.

Have fun, good luck, and let us know here later how it all turned out. Your lessons learned will help us readers if and when we also decide to do something this grand.