What AreYou Drinking- Right Now?

Homemade nog and rum while watching The Rum Diary.

a Presbyterian that turned into Maymie Taylor!

sekt!

French 75 stork club style!

French 75 bourbon street style!

that last one knocked me down for a while.

tonight it's me Pimm's Cup tribute.

Porpoise, your goin strong...
I can't let you have all the fun, so: TRADER VICS CHOCOLATE LIQUEUR ON ICE

Appleton Estate 21 wid one ice cube. This one was bottled in '09 so it's maybe 25 years old.
Cheers

Alien urine sample

Fill glass with ice
1/2 oz coconut rum
1/2 oz banana liqueur
1/2 oz peach schnapps
1/2 oz melon liqueur
Fill with sour mix leaving 1/2 inch from top
Shake
Splash of soda water
Top with 1/2 oz blue curaçao

:)

Red Robin had a Martian urine sample back in the 90's...

I'm enjoying a 5 y/o Juan Santos from Columbia. Like it a lot, I'll have to pick up a bottle of the 12 y/o and give that a try.

Happy Friday

D

old school Dr. Funk (Pernod, lime, grenadine, soda...)

Blackbeard's Depth Charge (courtesy of Kahuna Kevin's "Why is the Rum Gone?")

Trader Vic's Kona Coffee Liqueur on ice

Warning not tiki.

Went to Barnes and Nobel last night, the last one left in the West Valley. I like reading Imbibe magazine and checking out the latest chichi drink recipes. Here is one that sounded good mainly because I have a bottle of Creme de Cacao and hardly ever use it. I made it tonight and it is quiet nice. If you are a bourbon drinker you might like this.

2 oz bourbon, I used Maker's mark
3/4 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz Creme de Cacao, I used Hiram Walker.
1/4 oz vanilla sugar syrup, I used Monin.

Shake with ice and pour in a bucket.

Very good, incidentally, I don't know the name of this drink, I just memorized the ingredients. Maybe someone who has the magazine can tell me what it's called. Otherwise I am calling it "Delightful night".

On 2013-01-18 18:41, hang10tiki wrote:
Trader Vic's Kona Coffee Liqueur on ice

H10, have you bought any lately? I thought that had I bought the last three available at my local Ralph's over a year ago. I forget where I heard it but it was supposedly discontinued. I found it far superior to any other coffee liqueurs when I crafted a Mexican Coffee. I gave up looking and started using Patron coffee/tequila liqueur. Then I stumbled on three dusty bottles of the trader's C L at Ralph's and bought em all and they said they could get no more. I'm down to 1/2 of my last bottle.
Cheers

On 2013-01-18 19:17, hiltiki wrote:
2 oz bourbon, I used Maker's mark
3/4 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz Creme de Cacao, I used Hiram Walker.
1/4 oz vanilla sugar syrup, I used Monin.

Shake with ice and pour in a bucket.

Very good, incidentally, I don't know the name of this drink, I just memorized the ingredients. Maybe someone who has the magazine can tell me what it's called. Otherwise I am calling it "Delightful night".

That's the Brave Companion.

Thank you Poutineki.

Nui umi umi-
yep, it was a new bottle I cracked open...Lee's liquor
Jon

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2013-01-19 20:51 ]

Like thePorpoise, I too am feeling Funky.

After examining both of Donn Beach's Doctor Funk recipes (from "Intoxica" and "Remixed"), I took a shot at reinterpreting The Mai-Kai's Dr. Fong ...

Doctor Funk, 1937

Doctor Funk, 1953

Dr. Fong, from The Mai-Kai, circa 1956

Check out the back story on Doctor Funk and recipes for all of the above drinks:
http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2013/02/03/lost-cocktails-of-the-mai-kai-the-late-dr-fong-has-a-funky-and-famous-history/

The official blog of The Hukilau

Featuring The Mai-Kai Cocktail Guide

[ Edited by: Hurricane Hayward 2013-02-03 08:48 ]

Hayward- looks good

I'm making a trader Vic's (mix) hot buttered rum...

Blue Kahuna bastardized version of Ray's Mistake (with a tip o' the hat to Ickytiki):

3/4 oz of Torani passion fruit syrup
juice of one small lime
1/2 oz Sonoma vanilla-almond syrup
1/4 oz Sonoma Syrup grenadine
1 oz Cruzan white
1 oz Tanqueray
2 oz club soda
LH151 float

. . . not bad at all :) I should have used more ice, cut the passion fruit down to 1/2 oz and up-ed the vanilla-almond to 3/4 oz . . . next one . . .

Dark rum
OJ
Pineapple
Orange curacao

The Musket Wars

Crushed ice
1/2 oz of Smoke & Oakum's Gunpowder Rum
1/2 oz of Grenadine
2 oz of spiced rum
1/2 oz of Cointreau
Lemon & Paeroa (or some other boutique lemonade)

Shake all ingredients except the lemonade and pour into a Maori mug.
Fill the remainder of the mug with L&P.
Garnish with a Pohutakawa flower

A very elegant and sublime Mai Tai . . .

Let's call it the 12-12 Mai Tai! Huki lau!

[ Edited by: The Blue Kahuna 2013-01-31 19:13 ]

On 2013-01-31 19:10, The Blue Kahuna wrote:
A very elegant and sublime Mai Tai . . .

Let's call it the 12-12 Mai Tai! Huki lau!

[ Edited by: The Blue Kahuna 2013-01-31 19:13 ]

Pretty much the only way I make them now. I'm not ruling out the possibility of a version I'd like better but it's the best I've tried with rums I can get where I live.

A large bottle of Absinthe, straight up! with an Absinthe chaser, no lime.....

Samoan Fog Cutter, 1950s Trader Vic version ...

On 2013-02-02 00:15, Hurricane Hayward wrote:
Samoan Fog Cutter, 1950s Trader Vic version ...

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HH That SFC looks delicious. Nice photography too. Are you using the ambient light thats's in your tiki room?
Mahalo

Yes, that's just the lighting in my home bar, nothing fancy. Reds and blues mainly. I try for a realistic look. However, I do get better shots when I turn on the overhead lighting just across the room in the kitchen area. It it's far enough away to illuminate the bar just enough to get a clear picture but not too much to spoil the ambience. If your bar is too dark to get a good shot without a flash, you may want to play around with some distant lighting.

I know, I know, don't yell...

A beer

Dog fish head: world wide stout

Try 1, just 1, I dare you...

The web site claims 15-20%

jon

man, it's Super Bowl sunday, of course you gotta have some beers.

Sam Adams Latitude 48 IPA here. followed by a few Sun Storms...

a Hot Toddy! (i've got the ague)

On 2013-02-03 19:49, hang10tiki wrote:
I know, I know, don't yell...

A beer

Dog fish head: world wide stout

Try 1, just 1, I dare you...

The web site claims 15-20%

jon

Nice! I still have one left from '09. I bought a case, almost. The salesman just about cried because he didn't know it was there. I said "make it 23." He was happy again.

Cool story...

El Dorado 5 on ice

Jon

Eastern Sour

Blue Kahuna special
Monkeys lunch
Blue kahuna special
Koloa dark on ice
Blue kahuna special

Thanx BK

My friends loved the drink...

Jon

10-4 on the 12-12 . . . glad you all enjoyed . . . impressed that you could still type after five cocktails! An expert!

Alas, no booze for me today . . . had my fill yesterday :)

Cheers!

Home made version of the Scratch Mai-Tai from the Royal Hawaian....

Jon

Kona Koko Brown. Fiiiinally. Over a month later than last year!

Haven't been posting since computer crashes, now posting via iPod too hard to post ingredients with iPod but final has 8 oz of liquor, and still smooth after a few adjustments, but not smoldering lime clove garnish for now

iPod captured smoldering clove smoke trails on this photo
Second adjustment

[ Edited by: OceaOtica 2013-02-22 00:54 ]

Looks like that twist of lime has been through the wars, but I bet that's a tasty drink!

Trader Vic's Navy Grog (with the official Grog Concentrate!!!!!!!) . . . oh soooooo delicious!

Okole maluna!

Trader Vic's hot buttered rum mix

Nice Blue Kahuna! Here is some off the cuff quickies
Evenings this week. Though I have gotten better with
From my iPod, too hard to type more about drinks.
Should get computer back this weekend finally

Cointreau soaked cherries

Burning fragrant mint

A frappe, pomegranate heavy

[ Edited by: OceaOtica 2013-02-23 15:29 ]

Surf Room Mai Tai's. Delicious!

Navy Grog, of course. Ready for the red carpet . . .

Lemon hart on the rocks

Jon

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2013-02-25 08:16 ]

Kilo Kai on ice...wow, this one is in my top 3 now

Jon

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2013-02-25 08:19 ]