Updates to The Mai-Kai Cocktail Guide on The Atomic Grog - Tiki Drinks and Food

HH Hurricane Hayward Grand Member (1 year) 16 miles from The Mai-Kai Joined: Jun 07, 2008 Posts: 1867	HH Hurricane Hayward Posted posted on Sat, Mar 18, 2017 6:13 PM On 2017-03-12 17:30, mmaurice wrote: I was just down there, finally able to take my 8yr olds there for the Sunday show. They loved it. I was able to obtain some provisions unavailable here in Atlanta while down there, OFTD, Lemon Hart 151 and a couple others. I think I might need somebody willing to put together care packages to ship north, LOL. Anyways, maybe this has been discussed elsewhere and if so, point me there. What do you think of OFTD as a sub for Kohala Bay? As a matter of fact, I'm playing around with a combination of OFTD and the new Plantation Dark, which is heavy on the Jamaican funk, as a possible Kohala Bay sub. I'd like to get this figured out before I update any more recipes. My initial thought is that it has a good chance of cracking the top three: http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2012/05/08/rums-of-the-mai-kai-legendary-lemon-hart-returns-to-the-promised-land/#kohala-bay-substitutes If anyone has access to these, I'd like to invite you to join me in figuring out the best proportion. I started with 3 parts of the 80 proof and 1 part of the 138 proof. But this is around 94-proof, which is closer to Dagger's 97 than it is to the 87.6 of Kohala Bay. It would need to be a 6:1 mix for that, which might not be as punchy, and definitely less dark. Let me know if anyone does any experimenting.

On 2017-03-12 17:30, mmaurice wrote:
I was just down there, finally able to take my 8yr olds there for the Sunday show. They loved it.

I was able to obtain some provisions unavailable here in Atlanta while down there, OFTD, Lemon Hart 151 and a couple others. I think I might need somebody willing to put together care packages to ship north, LOL.

Anyways, maybe this has been discussed elsewhere and if so, point me there. What do you think of OFTD as a sub for Kohala Bay?

As a matter of fact, I'm playing around with a combination of OFTD and the new Plantation Dark, which is heavy on the Jamaican funk, as a possible Kohala Bay sub. I'd like to get this figured out before I update any more recipes. My initial thought is that it has a good chance of cracking the top three:
http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2012/05/08/rums-of-the-mai-kai-legendary-lemon-hart-returns-to-the-promised-land/#kohala-bay-substitutes

If anyone has access to these, I'd like to invite you to join me in figuring out the best proportion. I started with 3 parts of the 80 proof and 1 part of the 138 proof. But this is around 94-proof, which is closer to Dagger's 97 than it is to the 87.6 of Kohala Bay. It would need to be a 6:1 mix for that, which might not be as punchy, and definitely less dark. Let me know if anyone does any experimenting.

Post #774168 by Hurricane Hayward on Sat, Mar 18, 2017 6:13 PM