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

MAM mike and marie Tiki Socialite Sunken Studios \| The Current Year Joined: Jun 24, 2008 Posts: 443	MAM mike and marie Posted posted on Wed, Apr 4, 2018 3:02 PM On 2016-03-16 21:55, Hurricane Hayward wrote: First up, I'm posting some of the more simple recipes that were easy to adjust. The 1/8 ounce of cinnamon syrup that I had slipped into the Shark Bite was easy to replace with extra simple syrup. This one was my own doing. I had never seen a Shark's Tooth recipe with cinnamon. It just was such a great drink, and the tiny bit of extra spice worked so well in the tribute that I just went with it, to a small amount of fanfare. Here's the updated recipe with more notes on the cinnamon saga: http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2011/08/17/mai-kai-cocktail-review-what-makes-the-shark-bite-so-jawesome/#tribute Interesting stuff. We've studied your two tribute recipes on this one, and want to get your input on how we can possibly reverse engineer the Mai-Kai's version. The Shark Bite has always been one of our favorite Mai-Kai cocktails, up there with the Jet Pilot. We love Appleton Rum, too, so it's an easy cocktail to love. And then we get home and try to recreate it, and have never really hit it spot on. The old Shark's Tooth recipes all had pineapple juice, so we've never experimented with taking it out for something else. Jeff Berry told us that he thought the Mai-Kai's Shark Bite was a kind of cross between the recipe in the Grog Log and the Shark Bite as given in Sippin' Safari. But that second reference never gave us anything much to work on -- the maraschino cherry juice, as given in the Grog Log, does seem like it could be essential to the recipe. The [u=http://maikai.com/experience/extras/recipes]Mai-Kai recipe page[/u] has mentioned the Shark Bite for years, but doesn't give the recipe. Was this a Licudine creation?

On 2016-03-16 21:55, Hurricane Hayward wrote:
First up, I'm posting some of the more simple recipes that were easy to adjust. The 1/8 ounce of cinnamon syrup that I had slipped into the Shark Bite was easy to replace with extra simple syrup. This one was my own doing. I had never seen a Shark's Tooth recipe with cinnamon. It just was such a great drink, and the tiny bit of extra spice worked so well in the tribute that I just went with it, to a small amount of fanfare.

Here's the updated recipe with more notes on the cinnamon saga:
http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2011/08/17/mai-kai-cocktail-review-what-makes-the-shark-bite-so-jawesome/#tribute

Interesting stuff. We've studied your two tribute recipes on this one, and want to get your input on how we can possibly reverse engineer the Mai-Kai's version.

The Shark Bite has always been one of our favorite Mai-Kai cocktails, up there with the Jet Pilot. We love Appleton Rum, too, so it's an easy cocktail to love. And then we get home and try to recreate it, and have never really hit it spot on. The old Shark's Tooth recipes all had pineapple juice, so we've never experimented with taking it out for something else. Jeff Berry told us that he thought the Mai-Kai's Shark Bite was a kind of cross between the recipe in the Grog Log and the Shark Bite as given in Sippin' Safari. But that second reference never gave us anything much to work on -- the maraschino cherry juice, as given in the Grog Log, does seem like it could be essential to the recipe. The [u=http://maikai.com/experience/extras/recipes]Mai-Kai recipe page[/u] has mentioned the Shark Bite for years, but doesn't give the recipe. Was this a Licudine creation?

Post #785684 by mike and marie on Wed, Apr 4, 2018 3:02 PM