What AreYou Drinking- Right Now?

On 2015-12-11 08:57, The Below Decks wrote:
The Below Decks Call A Treuse!

i'm a huge chartreuse fan - trying this one tonight

You'll love it. Add the ingredients and dry shake until it hurts. Add ice. Shake until it hurts. Then shake a little more. Strain, pour, garnish and enjoy. Repeat.

have you had the Chartreuse VEP? it's unbelievable, especially the yellow, straight up

I had a sip once at Petty Cash Taquiera. I enjoyed, but I have to be honest and say that I think I prefer chartreuse as an ingredient in a cocktail where it can achieve a balance that better suits my palate.

Day 2

Hang10-- coincidentally ima mix up a darkNstormy myself in a few, using ED 8 yr old, and D&G brand ginger beer. what was the recipe proportions that you used??

[ Edited by: thePorpoise 2015-12-11 23:33 ]

A couple of Cuban specials. My recipe calls for Havana Club. I used Santiago de Cuba cuz my H C is the 7 year old and I’d rather sip it neat.
Cuban Special
2 Oz Cuban Rum

1 Oz Lime Juice

1 Tbsp Pineapple Juice

1 Tbsp Triple Sec
Build over Ice in a Mixing glass
. Stir and strain into a chilled cocktail glass
. Garnish with a chunk of pineapple.
Sorry bout the”#” thing. I can’t figure it out??

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2015-12-12 00:15 ]

At Drink in Boston. A zombie for my lady:

A Jet Pilot for me:

Ryan are you tellin me that way over in Boston they gave you a Smuggler's Cove barrel mug, or did you bring your own? Seems like a nice joint - was it as bright as it looks?

Red Nosed Zebras (Trader Sams_. I usually use Cruzan but I tried Sailor Jerry tonight cuz the five bottles I have are just collecting dust. Not bad.
Add images not working for me tonight. I’ll try tomorrow night wid the next batch.

Red-Nosed Zebra
Makes 1 cocktail
1.5 ounces Bacardi 8 rum
1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce agave nectar
1 ounce strawberry purée
Crushed ice, 3 cranberries, 2 mint sprigs, for garnish
Add all ingredients in a Boston Shaker (except garnish), fill half full with ice, and shake vigorously for 10 seconds.
Strain into a margarita glass filled with ice. Garnish with a mound of crushed ice, cranberries, and mint sprigs to look like 2 green antlers, cranberries for eyes
Btw, I make my puree and sometimes increase the amount of Agave depending on the tartness of the berries

Porp- 1 part rum
2 parts ginger beer

What do you do?

Zombies

Some IPA

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2015-12-13 05:58 ]

On 2015-12-12 21:11, kkocka wrote:
Ryan are you tellin me that way over in Boston they gave you a Smuggler's Cove barrel mug, or did you bring your own? Seems like a nice joint - was it as bright as it looks?

Drink provides their own ceramics, so, yeah, they made my jet pilot in a Smuggler's Barrel. I asked one of the barkeeps half-jokingly "Does Martin Cate know you took this?". To which she responded "Who's that?: :P
They seem to be somewhat freeform with the vessels they serve their drinks in, including a hollowed out white grapefruit that housed an Italian Greyhound and, the odd-faced mug they served Nikki's zombie in (with a full pineapple crown to garnish.) The mixology was great and they do appear go to lengths to make all their own syrups and press their own juices in-house.

Sounds like my kinda place!

On 2015-12-13 05:32, hang10tiki wrote:
Porp- 1 part rum
2 parts ginger beer

What do you do?

i usually go 2 rum to 3 ginger beer. for some reason Pussers works really well at 1 part rum to 3 ginger beer though. (i asked cause you were using ED5 and i've go ED8 right now on hand so i was curious what was working...(i dont think ive used ED for it before))

Frank Sinatra's Last Word Fizz!

Nutty like a fruitcake. Recipe from Hale Pele. Tasty!

Porp-thanx
I'll try that next time

On 2015-12-14 20:50, hang10tiki wrote:
Porp-thanx
I'll try that next time

i shoulda mentioned- that Pussers version also calls for Angostura bitters (they call it the Sea Dog Punch...)

The Below Decks Ape Reviver!

Porpoise: thanx

MikeHook: thanks for passing along the recipe

Not bad
A little sweet for me
I added more lemon

On 2015-12-15 18:33, hang10tiki wrote:

A little sweet for me
I added more lemon

I went a tad heavy with the allspice. Thought it had a pretty good balance. 7 out of 10.

Drinks from this past weekends tiki adventure at Longitude, Smugglers cove, trader vics, and forbidden island. Cheers and happy tiki Tuesday.

The Below Decks Cherry Pop!

Out of limes so needed to find a recipe with lemons that doesn't call for passion fruit which I'm also out of. Discovered the Waikikian. First sip tasted sorta like a Mai Tai, which makes sense given the curaçao and Orgeat. But it was very tart. And the more I drank it the more I disliked it. If I'm ever in desperation mode I'll give this another shot cutting the lemon way back.

The Below Decks New Orleans Tobacco Sidecar!

My bruddah TikiVato and I made a couple of Trader Sam’s Red nosed Zebras for ourselves and our wives. Finished the evening with Chief Lapu Lapu’s as a nod to the defunct Royal Hawaiian (Laguna Beach) which me and CeCe visited today. I’ll be posting pix of the R H tomorrow (Tiki Locations, General tiki-Mr Tiki’s wild ride).

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2015-12-17 22:39 ]

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2015-12-17 22:40 ]

Messhall, Los feliz
Had their Paper Plane, one of my favorite drinks there.
Bourbon, fresh lemon juice, Nino Amaro, Aperol.

Musso and Frank
Manhattan

Christmas at Musso's

On to the Spare Room at the Roosevelt in Hollywood.

The bartender made me her version of an Old Fasioned, was good.

[ Edited by: hiltiki 2015-12-18 00:19 ]

On 2015-12-18 00:00, hiltiki wrote:
Messhall, Los feliz
Had their Paper Plane, one of my favorite drinks there.
Bourbon, fresh lemon juice, Nino Amaro, Aperol.

Good choice! The Paper Plane is what put an Amaro onto my shopping list.

The Below Decks Noa Noa!

Farmers Fishers Bakers. Close to anything Tiki in D.C.

Starting with a delicious Bloody Mary, and will try their Don's Mai Tai and 1934 Zombie.

And they have 2 mugs....both by Tiki Farm. One is a Rabbit mug from El Scilencio Mezcal and the other is a mt. Gay rum cup cup. If I can convince the barten
der to sell me them,....

Also had their scorpion. Wow. They sold me two mugs and threw a parrot mug in for free!!! Awesome place!

[ Edited by: kraken007 2015-12-19 10:20 ]

[ Edited by: Kraken007 2015-12-19 10:22 ]

Fink Bomb - on my third one, with Mrs. Explorer. Yummy.

The Below Decks Modern English!

Don Beach.

Happy Hour

1/2 price Tini time

The Below Decks Pumpkin Punch!

Just made and consumed a batch of Martin Cate's Yuletide Wave - a strong punch and so so so good. It was a big hit at work.

On 2015-12-22 08:55, The Below Decks wrote:
The Below Decks Pumpkin Punch!

that sounds like a painful uppercut to the crotch or something!

On 2015-12-22 10:46, kkocka wrote:
a strong punch and so so so good. It was a big hit at work.

I need to work here.

howlinowl

the tiki drink i created a couple years ago:

Mile High Swizzle

1 1/2 oz Blackstrap Rum
1/2 oz Allspice Dram
3/4 oz Falernum
1/2 oz Green Chartreuse
3/4 oz pineapple juice

combine all ingredients with crushed ice, swizzle until cold, top with ginger beer

"The Last Word" on this Christmas day.

It's not tiki, but it is a prohibition-era classic which is quick and easy, and tasty, and can be enjoyed anytime. Give it a moment to "develop" on your palate, then take second and third sips to experience an "aha" moment. Interesting, and good. An example of what quality ingredients can do in surprisingly simple ratios.

.75 oz / 20 ml Tanqueray TEN
.75 oz / 20 ml Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
.75 oz / 20 ml Green Chartreuse
.75 oz / 20 ml Fresh Lime Juice

Fill shaker with ice, add ingredients, shake and double-strain into a chilled cocktail glass. A Nick & Nora glass looks good with this cocktail. Garnish with a half lime wheel - it should be kinda subtle.

[edited to add "chilled" to the glass description]

[ Edited by: AceExplorer 2015-12-25 17:19 ]

AceExplorer, Have been debating whether I should get the green Chartreuse or not, there is a middle size one at Gelson's markets, not cheap.
This is my Christmas-ish drink from last week.

Eggnog with Havana Club 7 with nutmeg on top.

it is time to commence my annual Eggnog Trials.

I will be sampling 'Nog mixed alternately with rum, whiskey, and brandy. I have no spiced rum on hand this year, so will use Cruzan Blackstrap; the whiskey will be Ireland's Tullamore Dew; the brandy = some cheapie stuff i have on hand. I will report back from the lab later...

It’s cold (43 and windy) outside so I’ fixin up Irish coffees as served at San Francisco’s Buena Vista Cafe. Strong hot coffee, 2 sugar cubes, ounce and a half Irish Whiskey topped with fresh muddled cream.

Very excited to try this.. 19.9% this year.

Rangoon Gimlet (Per Beachbum Berry's Total Tiki App!)

Double Donga Punches & grapefruit Sculpins. Been drinking both all thru the holiday. Time to give the ol' liver a much needed rest til New Years!