new book! home bar guide to tropical cocktails - Tiki Drinks and Food

PP Prikli Pear Tiki Socialite New Braunfels, Texas Joined: Jan 04, 2017 Posts: 981	PP Prikli Pear Posted posted on Wed, May 29, 2019 2:24 PM On 2019-05-29 11:12, therumtrader wrote: Has anyone who bought the book mixed any of the cocktails? Are they any good? After listening to the "5 Minutes of Rum" interview, the authors SEEM to have a "NO BIG DEAL" attitude toward the ingredients they recommend. That leads me to believe they have not mixed and quality tested each of the 150 recipes they included. I didn't get a "no big deal" vibe at all. I got the impression they worked with wildly varying ingredients available to craft solid cocktails. For instance, they talk about making their own passion fruit syrup, but use Torani for one particular recipe not because it is a good passion fruit syrup (it isn't) but because it has a unique flavor that works in that particular recipes. They were very clear about the fact that subbing ingredients would likely impact the flavor profile for good or ill. At the same time, they didn't discourage such experimentation. I thought them quite clear on their positions.

On 2019-05-29 11:12, therumtrader wrote:
Has anyone who bought the book mixed any of the cocktails? Are they any good? After listening to the "5 Minutes of Rum" interview, the authors SEEM to have a "NO BIG DEAL" attitude toward the ingredients they recommend. That leads me to believe they have not mixed and quality tested each of the 150 recipes they included.

I didn't get a "no big deal" vibe at all. I got the impression they worked with wildly varying ingredients available to craft solid cocktails. For instance, they talk about making their own passion fruit syrup, but use Torani for one particular recipe not because it is a good passion fruit syrup (it isn't) but because it has a unique flavor that works in that particular recipes. They were very clear about the fact that subbing ingredients would likely impact the flavor profile for good or ill. At the same time, they didn't discourage such experimentation. I thought them quite clear on their positions.

Post #795411 by Prikli Pear on Wed, May 29, 2019 2:24 PM