What AreYou Drinking- Right Now?

This is a drink I made up awhile back and my party guests have raved about it.. I named it the TseTse Fly as a riff on another of my favorite nontiki drinks which provided the inspiration(The Firefly - which is 2 parts grapefruit juice, 1 part Vodka, and a teaspoon or so of Grenadine.). I just looked at the Tiki Central Drink contest and realized it's quite similar to the winner of that contest, though I swear on my stack of Sven Kirsten books that I came up with it on my own. Here's the recipe as I make it. I hope some others try it and hopefully will enjoy it, too. I list the brand names I used. Please don't lambaste me for some of my brand choices, as options are quite limited here in Fresno.

TseTse Fly
• 4 oz. White Grapefruit Juice (I've no doubt that fresh squeezed is better, but I use the Ocean Spray 100% Juice brand with no added sugar.
• 2 oz. Platinum Jamaican Rum (I prefer Myers but have made this with Bacardi Light Rum.)
• 1 oz. Dark Jamaican Rum (I use Myers, but any Dark will probably suffice.)
• 3/4 oz. Passion Fruit Puree (used Finest Call. per Sippin' Safari, the Finest Call Passion Fruit Puree is comparable to passion fruit syrup, so if you have a passion fruit syrup you like, use that. A straight authentic 'puree' is probably not going to bring enough sweet)
• Splash Grenadine
Shake first 4 ingredients with ice. Strain into 14-16 oz. goblet or Hurricane glass. Add ice to almost fill glass. Add a small amount of grenadine (1 to 2 tsps) to the top of the drink and let it run to the bottom like you would a Tequila Sunrise. This last bit is obviously just there to make the drink prettier in a glass. If serving in a Tiki Mug, shake the grenadine with the other stuff..

[ Edited by: TeeKeeMan 2010-03-27 14:03 ]

Got me some maraschino liqueur finally... made a Beachcomber (eh) and a Jamaican Daquiri (awesome), both out of the Vic's '73 book.
Also had a Jet Pilot.
And a delicious Japanese Coctail for dessert.

Sunday night, Test Pilot.

Is it wrong to choose a drink based on garnish? I had 2 maraschino cherries to dispense with, and since 3 are needed for a 3 Dots and a Dash...

:)

The Hawaiian Village Blue Hawaii, the one in Sippin' Safari.

[ Edited by: Wayfarer 2010-03-31 05:41 ]

Just got a bottle of Senior Curacao, so I made a Mai Tai, then a Marlin. Now I'm drinking a glass of Laphroiag. Mmm, smokey.

Just mixed a Mai Tai Swizzle, courtesy of Beachbum Berry Remixed.

kevin

Piná Colada's. Using up the pineapple juice I have before it goes off. They might have Malibu in em', but damn they are tasty!

I'm drinking a Milky Way (or at least it's close the Milky Way as served at the Tiki Ti). Bailys, Kahlua, amarretto, milk, and a tiny splash of 7-up. Mmmm... so good...

Just finishing off a Mai-Kai Rum Barrel and a nice smoke before having my steak!

Don the Beachcomber's Mai-Tai Swizzle from BBB's Remixed.
Oh, my!
This is a thing of beauty. Granted, I'm more of a fan of Vic's, which is sublime, but this supposed pre-cursor is a real delight.
What I'm loving about this drink is that the sweetness is minimal at most, and the rum blend really, really shines through in a delicious symphony of booze. Man, I'm loving this damn drink.

(Granted, it may be perverse to put a Don drink in a Vic glass, but this is the only double old fashioned I have.)

And now, for the after-dinner dessert (the wife made an awesome meatloaf), I'm having the Beachbum's own Ancient Mariner.
Pretty dang good. I've made some other stuff with this same vibe, but they're all sweeter than this. I like the balance of the bitter with the spice in this drink and will definitely be making this again sometime..
Delicious.
Same glass, same garnish.

Royal Hawaiian Mai-Tai earlier, Aku Aku Lapu now.
Ya'll need to catch up, dammit.

A Top Notch Volcano, downsized for one.

On 2010-04-07 18:56, CucamongaChango wrote:
Don the Beachcomber's Mai-Tai Swizzle from BBB's Remixed.
Oh, my!
This is a thing of beauty. Granted, I'm more of a fan of Vic's, which is sublime, but this supposed pre-cursor is a real delight.
What I'm loving about this drink is that the sweetness is minimal at most, and the rum blend really, really shines through in a delicious symphony of booze. Man, I'm loving this damn drink.

(Granted, it may be perverse to put a Don drink in a Vic glass, but this is the only double old fashioned I have.)

Just tried this one too. I like!!!

I shoulda gone with another one... but... tonight I tried the Miehana. I kind of wish I hadn't, though... I mean, no offense to the Bum, but I'm just not feelin' this. I think it's the full ounce of Grand Marnier, but something's sticking in my throat... it's just a little too sharp for my taste.
I understand why it was created, and why it so "orangy", but I guess I was expecting more of a candy orange and not so much of an orange oil thing.
No big deal, though, of course... plenty of other awesome recipes in the sea!

Experimental Mai Tai - with Kraken rum for the heck of it. Sacrilege, I know, but actually not bad. Not spectacular, but not bad.

GK

I received BB Remixed two weeks ago and have been on a quest to make new things I haven't tried before, including ingredients I've shied away from because I know they aren't really my bag (but as a completist I'm going to at least try to check some drinks off the list). One such ingredient is coconut cream.

I opened a can of Coco Lopez last night and made the Tradewinds. However, since it's a bowl, I downsized it by 1/3, so instead of 4 oz of lemon juice and 3 oz each of everything else called for, I did 1 1/3 and 1 oz. respectively. I poured the blended result into a Trader Vic's coconut bowl. It tasted good, but was too "desserty" for my tastes and even at 1/3 almost immediately filled me up. So one coconut cream drink off the list, and will use the rest of the 15 oz can to check a few other coconut cream items off the list (though spaced out every couple of weeks, or until the cream goes bad in the fridge). Much better than the drink I made last week with Kahlua, whose name I forget (once I got home I discovered the 50oz bottle of Kahlua at Bevmo was the Hazlenut flavor--ecch--so I may have to try again with regular Kahlua, though I'm not really a fan of it in general--I'm way more into the drinks calling for falernum and allspice dram).

Brent,
If you can find the Trader Vics Coffee Liqueur.
Use that instead of the Kahlua, and I think you will be surprised.
I'm not a coffee Drinker, but that stuff is quality.

Jeff(btd)

On 2010-04-13 12:37, bigtikidude wrote:
Brent,
If you can find the Trader Vics Coffee Liqueur.
Use that instead of the Kahlua, and I think you will be surprised.
I'm not a coffee Drinker, but that stuff is quality.

Jeff(btd)

Jeff, I'll give that a try--is it unlike a lot of the other Trader Vic's products that are full of artificial ingredients?

I am a coffee drinker, but from this and past attempts at coffee grogs, I tend to like to keep my coffee drinking and my booze drinking as two separate experiences (just like my booze drinking and my dessert eating).

By the way, I'm going to come down to Don's Monday happy hour one of these weeks--things have just been too hectic lately.

I'm having a Captain's Grog right now--yum, one of the best drinks I've made out of Remixed!

However, I'm not sure whether I used Grade A or B maple syrup. It's Safeway Select brand, from Canada (but doesn't say anything about grades). Looking at wikipedia (always dangerous, I know) it appears the grades have to do with darkness--this is somewhat dark, but I think closer to Grade A Amber than the really dark Grade B. Not sure if the "grade A only" requirement has to do with coloration or taste. Whatever, this tastes damn good!

[ Edited by: congawa 2010-04-13 20:53 ]

On 2010-04-13 16:00, congawa wrote:
Jeff, I'll give that a try--is it unlike a lot of the other Trader Vic's products that are full of artificial ingredients?

I am a coffee drinker, but from this and past attempts at coffee grogs, I tend to like to keep my coffee drinking and my booze drinking as two separate experiences (just like my booze drinking and my dessert eating).

By the way, I'm going to come down to Don's Monday happy hour one of these weeks--things have just been too hectic lately.

I'm not 100% sure,
but the consensus is the 5 Liqueurs that TV's makes,
Hazlenut, Amareto, Macadamia nut, Coffee and 1 other(I forget).
are all really good, compared to the TV mixers and and rums.

Hope to see you at Dons on a Monday.
its such a deal, and great times.

Jeff(btd)

On 2010-04-09 21:32, skeeter wrote:

On 2010-04-07 18:56, CucamongaChango wrote:
Don the Beachcomber's Mai-Tai Swizzle from BBB's Remixed.
Oh, my!
This is a thing of beauty. Granted, I'm more of a fan of Vic's, which is sublime, but this supposed pre-cursor is a real delight.
What I'm loving about this drink is that the sweetness is minimal at most, and the rum blend really, really shines through in a delicious symphony of booze. Man, I'm loving this damn drink.

(Granted, it may be perverse to put a Don drink in a Vic glass, but this is the only double old fashioned I have.)

Just tried this one too. I like!!!

I just realized why I like this one so much. The recipe is very similar to the Test Pilot (except for one key ingredient) another one of my favorite drinks!

[ Edited by: skeeter 2010-04-14 19:34 ]

A Donga Punch. I can't say I dislike it, however the Martinique rum in it is quite dominant. I wonder if it would taste better using a different brand.

Skeeter, that's a mighty fine lookin drink! I'm enjoying a Rum Barrel, a la Mai Kai.

"Fogg Cutter" from BBB:Remixed... Portions of the OJ + Lime looked interesting (and had them ready)... Plus, I've had a bottle of Gin sticking around for several years and I figured the flavor would be covered up well...

The drink was great, though deadly!! Shockingly, I could get the Gin and finally found a gin drink I like... Go Tiki!

(can't till BB's next book)

A lazy Sunday afternoon Boo Loo. A friendly drink in a nasty mug.

Restless Native from "Remixed".
Damn, this is a limey sucker.
Ain't no way I'm getting scurvy, that's for sure.
Delicious... but I'm dialing back the lime a little on the next one.

Before that it was a Broken Ankle. I went out and got the Heering yesterday and man am I glad that I did. That stuff's great!

A Suffering bastard for a suffering bastard. Then...
Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch

A couple from my new copy of Remixed:

Aku Aku Zombie

Mai Tai Swizzle

I'm having one of these;

Not really a big fan of beer to begin with, and this is certainly not my favourite, but I bought a case and gave half to a gardener in exchange for some logs from the trees he was cutting down. Now I can start my first large Tiki carving. Woohoo.

Three Dots and a Dash.

Though to be fair, that was actually 2 drinks ago.

kevin

Last night . . . Pub and Prow Hot Buttered Rum using Appleton Estates Extra (12yo), enjoyed from my "Goddess Of Love" mug.

Appleton 12 Year with one single ice cube.

Test Pilot, or you could call it Jet Pilot, Ace Pilot, Space Pilot or Astronaut.

Regular old Mai Tai...but with 5 Star Rhum Barbancourt instead of the Appleton/St. James combo. It tastes a lot more like the Mai Tai's that I've had a TV's for some reason. I always thought it was the limes, or curacao, or orgeat that made my drinks taste off, but now with Senior Curacao, Philibert de Routin Orgeat and good limes, they still never taste quite right. Call me blasphemous, but I don't think I'm a fan of the Martinique rum...

SCA's Kon-Tiki Guatemala Cooler - very similar to a Pina Colada - unremarkable.

A Hawaiian Eye.

A bottle of Sahti that's been sitting in the cellar for a year and a bit. Doesn't seem to have done it any harm.

It's a strong (11%) Finnish style of rye and wheat beer spiced with honey, juniper and sea wormwood. Tastes kinda like mead. Quite pleasant.

The liquor fairy (Joe the UPS man) brought me two bottles of St James Hors D' Age and a bottle of Clement VSOP. I be having a Mai Tai battle in less than two hours!

[ Edited by: WestADad 2010-04-29 13:50 ]

On 2010-04-29 10:20, Quiet Village Idiot wrote:
A bottle of Sahti that's been sitting in the cellar for a year and a bit. Doesn't seem to have done it any harm.

It's a strong (11%) Finnish style of rye and wheat beer spiced with honey, juniper and sea wormwood. Tastes kinda like mead. Quite pleasant.

Followed by a Derby Daiquiri (made with 3-year old Havana Club), a glass of Prichards and a glass of Rivière du Mât. Got a bit carried away... :)

Picked up some Benedictine in order to make a particular cocktail... but the stuff tastes so damn good by itself, I'm just drinking it straight up in a snifter.
I'll save the cocktail for tomorrow.

I've already enjoyed a Miehana this evening, for the first time with fresh squeezed orange juice thanks to this new guy:

Fresh squeezed limes and lemons were always standard fare thanks to a hand juicer (squeezer). But oranges were always too large for that tool. Now I have a better tool. And the difference is pronounced.

And now, off to a Damon's Mai-Tai via Taboo Table.

kevin

Yesterday afternoon . . . MISSIONARY'S DOWNFALL from "Remixed" (pg. 73. A very labor-intensive drink (mint leaf plucking), and in my opinion,a bit short on the rum (only 1 oz.) so I boosted it by .5 oz ( could probably even handle 2 oz. quite nicely)-. . . . a pleasant, refreshing drink - one I'll reserve for "Special Occasions"

I bet you feel more like you do now now than you did when you came in.

GH

[ Edited by: GentleHangman 2010-05-03 13:04 ]

Made the 50s and 30s versions of the Singapore Sling yesterday.
They were okay... I just think I'm not a gin guy at all.
Made a super rummy Mai-Tai afterward and everything was a-ok from there on out.

On 2010-05-03 13:02, GentleHangman wrote:
Yesterday afternoon . . . MISSIONARY'S DOWNFALL from "Remixed" (pg. 73. A very labor-intensive drink (mint leaf plucking), and in my opinion,a bit short on the rum (only 1 oz.) so I boosted it by .5 oz ( could probably even handle 2 oz. quite nicely)-. . . . a pleasant, refreshing drink - one I'll reserve for "Special Occasions"

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I bet you feel more like you do now now than you did when you came in.

GH

[ Edited by: GentleHangman 2010-05-03 13:04 ]

Oh man I love these! Nice glass.

Cane & Cola

Mai Tai...

Beachbum Berry style!

Chris

Banana Daquiri from Remixed.
Really, really good.