What AreYou Drinking- Right Now?

a Pierre Ferrand sidecar, and it's damn good....

Enjoying one of my personal favorite non-tiki drinks, Toby Maloney's ode to the donkey with the blues...

Eeyore's Requiem

1 1/2 oz Campari
1 oz Dolin Bianco vermouth
1/2 oz Tanqueray gin
1/2 oz Cynar
1/4 oz Fernet Branca
15 drops orange bitters

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, express 3 orange twists over the glass, drop the last one in.

Just like the drink's namesake, pleasantly bitter.

sort of a dry, extra-bitter, Negroni...

earlier I had a hybrid (aka yeoman's) navy grog; now, a 1934 zombie punch... in my first tiki mugs!

and it's damn good...!

[ Edited by: thePorpoise 2012-04-23 21:34 ]

Three dots and a dash ( Sippin Safari)

1/2 oz fresh lime
1/2 oz OJ
1/2 oz honey mix (1 part honey 1 part hot water)
1 1/2 oz Martinique Rum
Dash of bitters
1/4 oz Falernum (Fee Bro)
1/4 oz pimento liquor
6 oz crushed ice.

Put everything in blender, pour, garnish with 3 cocktail cherries on a stick.
Excellent drink.

YUMMY....

Tonight's experiment...

3 oz canned passionfruit juice (Hawaiian Sun Lillikoi Passion)
2 oz Rhum JM
1/2 oz Trader Tiki's Don's Mix
1/2 oz guava syrup
juice of one fresh lime
splash soda water
2 drops Scrappy's Cardamom bitters
crushed ice

pineapple & cherry garnish

I keep experimenting with the Scrappy's bitters which are STRONG. Not bad, but I will have to do some more experiments...

started with a fogcutter (and not no weak-aissed samoan fogcutter neither)

then, a double Test Pilot, in my ceramic tiki mugs!

and it's damn good...!

Just one for today. Good old Navy Grog.

Just had a Chief Lapu Lapu! Yum! Made it with Coruba and Cruzan White.

Kama'aina....

Queen's PArk Swizzle, using my left-over mint julep minted cane syrup from the Derby last nite...

Modified Mai Kai Swizzle tribute...

2 ounces OJ
3/4 oz mango juice
3/4 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz 2:1 simple syrup
1/2 oz orgeat
1/4 oz Taylor Velvet Falernum
1 ounce Cruzan Aged Silver
1 ounce Smith & Cross

Swizzle in shaker with crushed ice until shaker frosts over, pour into double rocks glass.

Cheers!
Chris

Blue Light Special Lagoon:
Rum
Blue Curacao
Mike's Hard Lemonade :D

a very scrong Hurricane:

5 oz Gosling's Black Seal dark rum;
1 oz lime juice;
2 teaspoons cherry syrup (out of grenadine); and
4 oz passionfruit syrup (combined Goya maracuya juice with granulated sugar).

hammer-time...

How you feeling today Porpoise? :)

On 2012-05-11 05:37, WestADad wrote:
How you feeling today Porpoise? :)

surprisingly great! I credit the hardy beef stew I ate beforehand.

Yep, I learned last night that Mai Tai's go extremely well with grilled pork and mango kebabs.

TGIF!!!

Navy Grog with Lemon instead of lime 'cause that is what I've got.

gabbahey

Suffering Bastard. it's got bite!

happy Syttende Mai..!!!

about time to break out the viking fogcutter...

Last night I made myself a Mai-Kai tribute Jet Pilot.

Without having dinner first.

Quick and effective delivery of happy juice to the brain.

Big Bamboo. Made with Appleton 12 y.o. and Havana Club 7 y.o.

Next one will be either Zula or Jet Pilot. I think I'm leaning more towards Zula, since I'm in the mood for something smooth and easy.

Hayward's tribute to Tahitian Breeze. I didn't have creme de banana so I used some cheap banana liquor that has been lurking in the back of my fridge for over a year. I used only a teaspoon, just incase. And it was a good choice. There is still some slight "bad-booze" flavor in the background from the cheap liquor. But other than that, it's a great and unique tropical drink. And I think the bad taste disappeared once it diluted a little. This is a good one, definitely for those sweet tooth -moments. I'd really like to know how it tastes at the Mai-Kai. Hmm, I still have some lime juice left. Maybe I should try the Hawai'i-version too.

a day late, but Black-Eyed Susans.

improved with a dash of bitters, a spash of grapefruit juice, and double the rum...

Magnificent Mai Tai in my new Vamptiki Lounge double old-fashioned glass . . .

1 oz lime juice
1/2 oz Clement Creole Shrubb
1/4 oz orgeat
1/4 oz simple syrup
1 oz Meyers Dark
1 oz Depaz
1/4 oz Lemonhart 151 float
Angostura Bitters
Mint

. . . delightful . . . happy camper :wink:

Round two and adding an Avo Heritage . . . goodnight Gracie . . .

Ahhhh, round three . . . Mai Tai magnifique!

Last night's cocktail was: a splash of light rum; a splash of dark rum with mixed fruit juices, a squeeze of lime juice and a splort of soda! Yummmmmy!

First I had a Don's Own Planter's. So damn good. Still one of my favorites. Simple, but great.

I got some lemon juice left so I improvised and came up with this;

3/4oz lemon juice
1/2oz passionfruit syrup
1/3oz allspice syrup
1/2oz club soda
½tsp ginger syrup
3/4oz Havana Club 3 year old
1oz Mount Gay eclipse
1 dash angostura bitters

Shaken up with some ice. Nothing special, but it's pretty good. Nice and drinkable.

an El Dorado Excedrin...

Mai Kai Tribute Zombie. Having Lemon Hart 151 for the first time makes all txhe difference in the world!

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

GH

[ Edited by: GentleHangman 2012-06-05 16:38 ]

Love this version of Mai Tai. Thanks Hakalugi and Martiki.

1/4 oz. Orgeat
1/4 oz. Sugar syrup
3/4 oz. Lime juice
1/2 oz. Curacao Marie Brizard
1 oz Zaya
1 oz. Pusser's Rum

Can't get better... .
Yum.

Ran out of limes, so... sipping some El Dorado 12

neat!

Last night:
Made a Mai Tai similar to the one posted earlier by Hiltiki except that I used Senior Orange Curacao, Zaya and some Pusser's 15 year old Navy Rum - Wow!

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

GH

[ Edited by: GentleHangman 2012-06-20 14:27 ]

Mai Tai (starts about 9:00 in):

http://www.floridatoday.com/VideoNetwork/1700365380001/Brevard-Entertainment-June-21

You tell me!

In addition to what's below, I have honey mix, banana, soda water & bittermens tiki bitters to work with.

I'm thinking of starting with an Outrigger (lemon juice, honey mix (in place of triple sec), plantation 5yr) followed by slightly modified variants of Navy Grog, Pearl Diver or QB Cooler, hell maybe a Banana Daiquiri.

I'm leaning towards the Navy Grog - decisions decisions

Official Mai Kai Barrel O' Rum (Taboo Table) made with Cruzan aged white and Kohala Bay dark Jamaican. With 12 ounces of liquid - before ice - the only barrel mug I had that could hold it all was my original Don The Beachcomber Rum Barrel mug. Nice drink!

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

GH

[ Edited by: GentleHangman 2012-06-21 18:02 ]

Round 1:

Navy Grog
   ¾ oz fresh lime juice
   ¾ oz grapefruit juice (squeezed red, all I could find - anyone use an orange instead?)
   ¾ oz soda water (Gerolsteiner)
   1 oz honey mix (made with raw Manuka honey, over minimal heat)
   1 oz light Puerto Rican rum (Cruzan)
   1 oz dark Jamaican rum (Appleton Extra 12)
   1 oz Demerara rum (El Dorado 12)

I've just built up my rum collection over the last week, so am a bit new to all of this - but this is one mean beverage. I made with orange linstead of grapefruit last week and it was delicious too. (Last year my drink was the noa noa because I had to have only one rum on hand and I have a lot of mint growing in the backyard.)

The Manuka honey is interesting, and the health benefits are appealing, but am looking forward to getting back to a more normal tasting raw honey as well. I try to eat raw and organic when possible and will be staying away from refined sugar syrups and "flavorings", using homemade raw honey mix exclusively as sweetener - I realize this limits me somewhat, but it's all good!

On 2012-06-21 17:54, tuhuka wrote:
You tell me!

In addition to what's below, I have honey mix, banana, soda water & bittermens tiki bitters to work with.

I'm thinking of starting with an Outrigger (lemon juice, honey mix (in place of triple sec), plantation 5yr) followed by slightly modified variants of Navy Grog, Pearl Diver or QB Cooler, hell maybe a Banana Daiquiri.

I'm leaning towards the Navy Grog - decisions decisions

Another Navy Grog, but with 1.25 oz honey mix - the Manuka honey lacks sweetness - this one was much better!

Another Navy Grog - limit 3 per customer :wink:
This time with Appleton V/X, Cruzan Gold, and Lemon Hart 151 (.5 oz)
Very tasty

OK make that 4 per customer

I started the afternoon off with a Missionary's Downfall and have now moved on to a Krakatoa.

Sure could go for a Pu Pu platter right now.

Everyone have a safe Saturday night!

Cheers!
Chris

Papa Doble. so dry.

1. Banana Daiquiri (from tiki+)

2. Don's Daiquiri (from grog log)

alternating btw half shots of chilled Russian vodka, and quaffs of Baltika # 4.

happy Perestroika Day!

Baltika # 6 (porter), brewed in sT Pete nee Leningorod.

I'll take gin smothered in bourbon.