What AreYou Drinking- Right Now?

Aloha lunavideogames, I too had a Tiki Swizzle tonight, the new drink from the brand new Mai-Kai cocktail menu that made its debut on Friday ...

I then returned to The Atomic Grog and whipped up a fairly accurate replica ...

Recipe and rating coming soon.

Very cool. Hope you liked the Tiki Swizzle! I am leaving Florida right now. I would have done one more day at the Mai Kai, but since it was cold we went to Disneyworld. Just 3 nights at the Mai Kai, I wish I had more time. They made me dance and everything. Great place. We will be back soon, hopefully for that last big event.

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

[ Edited by: lunavideogames 2014-01-20 05:19 ]

Glad you had a great time, and good to see you have your priorities straight: The Mai-Kai first, Disney World second :>)

Here's the full review and story behind the Tiki Swizzle, plus my take on the official recipe:

http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2014/01/20/mai-kai-cocktail-review-the-new-tiki-swizzle-is-a-sweet-and-savory-addition/

Okole maluna!

Grog log
Planet of the Apes

5/10

Snow day tomorrow here in New Jersey, a double Mai Tai tonight! In a Tiki Lounge, Pittsburgh PA tiki mug instead of a double old fashioned glass. A gift from TC friend Pittsburgh Pauly!

Tomorrow I did out!

Lori- sweet

Dark rum
Macadamia nut liqueur
Orgeat
Coco Lopez

Worst sound ever, slurp of an empty tiki mug through my straw!!!

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2014-01-21 19:50 ]

Wife's

Making the most of my Kohala Bay, and the polar eclipse or whatever...

-Zula 1
-Bora Bora
-Yeoman's Grog

Per Hurricane Heyward's recipes

This one from The Porpoise
Thanx bruddah, ya saved the night

Dry-Tai

From his prior post:

i've advocated here for a while in favor of what i call a "dry" mai-tai:
reduce the lime, orgeat, and curacao, making the MaiTai a more rum-forward drink.

when i make a MaiTai "dry," i use a teaspoon lime,
and 2 teaspoons each of orgeat and orange curacao,
with the regular 2 oz of rum.

i prefer 1 oz dark rum and 1 oz demerara rum, myself.

Thanks again Sir

Hang 10, I'll need to try that recipe! My mai tai's are using up limes at an alarming rate and truthfully, their sourness is getting to my stomach.

On 2014-01-21 21:58, hang10tiki wrote:
This one from The Porpoise
Thanx bruddah, ya saved the night

Dry-Tai

From his prior post:

i've advocated here for a while in favor of what i call a "dry" mai-tai:
reduce the lime, orgeat, and curacao, making the MaiTai a more rum-forward drink.

when i make a MaiTai "dry," i use a teaspoon lime,
and 2 teaspoons each of orgeat and orange curacao,
with the regular 2 oz of rum.

i prefer 1 oz dark rum and 1 oz demerara rum, myself.

Thanks again Sir

hey, great minds think alike!

On a road trip from L A to Yosemite to the bay area to Monterey to Ventura and home.
Monday and Tuesday night-Red wine at the Awahnee hotel,Yosemite.

Today- Minnies,Modesto Ca.

Mai Tai’s

This evening Forbidden Island, Forbidden Island cocktail for CeCe,1944 Mai tai for me.


Round 2, M-T for CeCe, Fire rock for me,gotta drive back to Emeryville and rest up for tomorrow

Nui- have fun

Jon

edit-
Porpoise- I think your Dry-Tai might make it on my home bar menu in the Mai-Tai section.
:)

How many of you out there have made home bar menus?

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2014-01-23 10:30 ]

How many of you out there have made home bar menus?

Guilty.

I have a home bar menu.

My home bar menu is a work in progress...

Out of the 50 / 60 tiki drinks I've tried, I'm up to about 10 drinks that I really really really like!

Guilty part II.

I'm enjoying a Navy Grog as follows:

1 oz. fresh lime
3/4 oz white grapefruit juice
1/2 oz TV's Rum Grog Concentrate
1/4 oz Honey Mix
4/4 oz Cruzan aged white
3/4 oz Don Q gold
1 1/2 oz Kohala Bay Jamaican

I like this formula better than what came with the TV Grog Mix.

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

GENT

[ Edited by: gentlehangman 2014-01-23 15:26 ]

Kool
Let's see some of the home bar menus

Mine also a work in progress...

Celebrating our annerversary.
Emeryville

Painkiller for me, Menehune juice for the wife.

Nudder pk for me Mai Tai for me honey. No pic.
Back at the hotel with a bottle of Laguna Cyn Raspberry sparkling wine to celebrate 43 blissful years. How does she do it?.

Cheers

Mr n Mrs Nui- congradulations...
:)

On 2014-01-24 08:22, hang10tiki wrote:
Mr n Mrs Nui- congradulations...
:)

Gracias Jon!

Kona Koko Brown - it's here!! They changed the shape of the bottle this year, but it's still delicious.

Demerara dry float (was awesome)

congrats nui 'umi 'umi.

awesome occasion, awesome trip

3 dots and a dash
Lots of em

Hey Jon, I am speechless! That all looks so good.
Btw, you didn’t waste any time trying out your new squeezer from your main squeeze.
Cheers,
David

On 2014-01-27 19:41, thePorpoise wrote:
congrats nui 'umi 'umi.

awesome occasion, awesome trip

Mahalo Porp!
David

David- good eye...
:)

Jon

Special Planters Punch - Atomic Grog recipe
Great drink, thanks for the recipe. I think the One at Mai Kai tastes fruitier. Passion Fruit maybe?

Now I am off to OFF!

[ Edited by: lunavideogames 2014-01-29 21:52 ]

sipping on some Berry's Guadeloupe Rum Aged 12 years

A Blood Orange Old Fashioned with Knob Creek Bourbon

Looks tasty. I got 99 bitters but blood orange ain't one. Ok maybe only 19 but I will be on the lookout for some blood orange bitters.

For any of you that got Jeff Berry's new book (Potions of the Caribbean) and received that free imbibe magazine, there is a cocktail called the Poipu beach boogieboard that is published by Paul McGee of Three Dots and a Dash in Chicago. Had one last night. Very tasty. :)

Forgotten Tikiman, I just made this drink and I was sure it was going to be real sweet with 3/4 oz. grenadine in it, however it was not sweet at all in fact it was a little tart. Thanks, I enjoyed it.

On 2014-02-01 10:30, lunavideogames wrote:
Looks tasty. I got 99 bitters but blood orange ain't one. Ok maybe only 19 but I will be on the lookout for some blood orange bitters.

Ha! got the song reference, The Stirrings Blood Orange Bitters are pretty good
though I really like "Regans' Orange Bitters No. 6" as my go-to Bitters.

not a fan of the stirrings blood orange bitters. the product tastes watery, is not spicy, and the orange flavor is weak.

On 2014-02-01 02:35, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
A Blood Orange Old Fashioned with Knob Creek Bourbon

Man, that looks good Lance! The pic is nice too. Did you purposely take the shot slightly out of focus or are you overdoing the bitters?
Cheers

Having a couple glasses of Cab-gotta ease into tomorrow. Making some Huli Huli chicken and gonna wash it down with lotsa rum concoctions.
Cheers all-stay safe.

Harry K Yee's "Hawaiian Eye". Remarkable in that it is somewhat close in style to the "Reverb Crash", which to me, is one of the most refreshing drinks out there. I was out in my patio wok-cooking large quantities of Chinese food, and that Hawaiian Eye just hit the spot!

On 2014-02-01 21:01, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:

On 2014-02-01 02:35, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
A Blood Orange Old Fashioned with Knob Creek Bourbon

Man, that looks good Lance! The pic is nice too. Did you purposely take the shot slightly out of focus or are you overdoing the bitters?
Cheers

Thanks David, no, it is just the use of a couple of Photoshop filters & I just used two shakes of the bitters.

On 2014-02-01 20:00, thePorpoise wrote:
not a fan of the stirrings blood orange bitters. the product tastes watery, is not spicy, and the orange flavor is weak.

Your are correct, The Stirrings is somewhat weaker and I find you need to use more to get that kick of flavor
but in combination with a muddled orange slice in an "Old Fashioned" I think it works
I like it also when making a Blood Orange Mai Tai, but it does not replace stronger bitters in other cocktails.

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2014-02-02 13:40 ]

I enjoy the occasional Old Fashioned using Knob Creek bourbon (100 proof), but I muddle an ordinary orange slice and a cherry, and add a splash of seltzer water.
A fine drink!

Mai Tai for the Not-so-SuperBowl with my new ITMP glasses!

On 2014-02-02 17:33, LoriLovesTiki wrote:
Mai Tai for the Not-so-SuperBowl with my new ITMP glasses!

Yum! Very nice looking drinks and pic Lori.
Mahalo for sharing your mixologist and camera talents.

Nice looking glasses Lori! I had beer and made a bunch of Moscow Mules today. One batch with Angostura bitters, another with rhubarb bitters and a third batch with orange bitters. All very good drinks.

If you keep playing with your Bitters,Luna
you could go blind!

On 2014-02-03 00:03, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
If you keep playing with your Bitters,Luna
you could go blind!

Good one Lance!

Red Lantern cocktail, in a belated nod to Chinese New Year's.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!