Post #772108 by Sunny&Rummy on Tue, Jan 17, 2017 5:29 AM

This is a really intriguing partial history and I hope you all can dig up some more -- including of course some of the original recipes. This story seems very much to mirror the Prohibition era Harry Craddock story, except that Alex whent to Tahiti during Probibition while Harry went (back) to the UK. It would be interesting to know if Alex was a barman in the US before Prohibition.

A big question for me is, how "tropical" would the Rainbow Cocktail or any of Alex's other signature cocktails actually have been? As mentioned above, the Savoy's Rainbow Cocktail was a pousse cafe style layered drink with no rum or juice or anything tropical/faux tropical about it. Regardless of the specifics, I wonder if Alex's Tahiti creations wouldn't have been more along those lines -- more like the classic cicktails of that era and not bearing much similarity to Donn's rum rhapsodies or Vic's spin on same.

Happy hunting and please share what you turn up!