Post #800739 by PineappleWhip on Mon, Feb 17, 2020 9:28 AM

Hey Hamo,
Yeah, when I found the other thread for the drink competition....and read thru that (see below).....

Tiki Central’s Official Drink contest: Deadline over!

....I remember reading how part of the intent, was that this drink could be something everyone could easily enjoy, as an official Tiki Central drink.

There were a few comments about the "ease of creation" being something that people can relatively easily make, without taking things to an extreme. Hanford made a point that he was afraid of people doing something like

On 2003-03-17 15:09, hanford_lemoore wrote:

One thought that comes to me right away:
Almost all good tropical drinks have either fresh lime or fresh lemon juice in them.

Yeah, that's cool. I am worried more about instructions like: "Take a coconut and break it open... pour the juice into a glass then lightly toast the rind in a toaster oven, then scrape the rind into a blender..."

~Hanford

I was kind of going toward this thought, when I did my recipe. You could take this to the extreme, and have so many complicated processes involved to get the drink made, that it could be overwhelming for the judges to prepare...if there were as many drinks as there was last time...AND...they were all that complicated.

Also, I understand to a degree....that there are TONS of really delicious drinks that have been made over the course of history that are relatively simple. One big difference of course, is I think in antiquity there was more hand fresh squeezed juices, and more handmade syrups......where now, there are more pre-made options? (maybe??)

Although, with that being said....things are different now, then when the contest was done in 2003. If everyone wanted to do an TC20 Anniversary Drink Contest, we (as a community) could develop the rules that we all agree upon......and they could be totally different, then they were....and could have as complicated ...or.. as simple ingredients as was decided.

One thing I have noticed....is that there haven't been many people chatting on this thread. As much fun as I think it would be to have more people post on this thread, and I would be more than happy to help contact folks, organize, write emails, whatever I could do to help it move along....i don't see this thread gaining too much traction.

I have made your Vanuatu Sands a few times now Hamo, and its very good. It's a nice smoked old fashioned. I do have to say the first time I made it was with crushed ice, and it diluted it way too quickly. But, when you make it with one large ice cube, it is definitely better :) You ever get a chance to make a 2020 Swizzle??

So, hopefully, there are more people interested in submitting a recipe, I think at a minimum 5 or 6 recipes, so that the eventual judges could have enough different choices to judge....but, I suppose all there really had to be was 3, for a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd......right?