What AreYou Drinking- Right Now?

HopeChest, Here it is, Wish I could recall where I got the recipe.
Mojitos

makes 1 cocktail

one Serving

10 fresh mint leaves

1/2 lime, cut into 4 wedges

2 tablespoons white sugar, or to taste

1 cup ice cubes

1 1/2 fluid ounces white rum

Place mint leaves and 1 lime wedge into a sturdy glass. Use a muddler to crush the mint and lime to release the mint oils and lime juice. Add 2 more lime wedges and the sugar, and muddle again to release the lime juice. Do not strain the mixture. Fill the glass almost to the top with ice. Pour the rum over the ice, and fill the glass with club soda. Stir lightly, taste, and add more sugar if desired. Garnish with the remaining lime wedged
I muddle the heck outta the lime and mint. Use top shelf silver rum and top quality cub soda and of course clear hard ice. I have tried many recipes from various sources and ths ione is easy and delicious
and this is by far my fave.
Cheers
Sorry bout those extra nunbers and stuff-try to ignore em

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2018-08-13 16:48 ]

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2018-08-13 16:49 ]

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2018-08-21 20:35 ]

Summer beer from a local brewery. The artwork on the can is better than the beer, but it is still decent.

At long last I found myself a 1st Ed. Uh-Oa bowl (and at a good price no less!) so I inaugurated it with my best attempt at its namesake cocktail based on the menu description.

Served it up alongside some grilled sesame-lime wings and shishito peppers.

Enjoying a Hamo Blamo in my 2018 Art Swap mug by TikiAno

Aloha Pat! Here's a fairly accurate take on the Uh-Oa! recipe ...
http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2014/10/07/trader-sams-grog-grotto-design-merchandise-revealed-during-mahaloween-event-at-disneyland/#uh-oa

Okole maluna!

On 2018-08-15 13:44, PalmtreePat wrote:
At long last I found myself a 1st Ed. Uh-Oa bowl (and at a good price no less!) so I inaugurated it with my best attempt at its namesake cocktail based on the menu description.

Served it up alongside some grilled sesame-lime wings and shishito peppers.

On 2018-08-17 21:48, Hurricane Hayward wrote:
Aloha Pat! Here's a fairly accurate take on the Uh-Oa! recipe ...
http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2014/10/07/trader-sams-grog-grotto-design-merchandise-revealed-during-mahaloween-event-at-disneyland/#uh-oa

Okole maluna!

On 2018-08-15 13:44, PalmtreePat wrote:
At long last I found myself a 1st Ed. Uh-Oa bowl (and at a good price no less!) so I inaugurated it with my best attempt at its namesake cocktail based on the menu description.

Served it up alongside some grilled sesame-lime wings and shishito peppers.

Wow, I was actually pretty close, I just used an extra 2 ounces of rum.

for National Rum Day I sipped on some Dagger rum. CHeers!

On 2018-08-13 00:05, Hurricane Hayward wrote:

Even though I've finally been dragged onto Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/theatomicgrog/), I still enjoy posting photos here first for the true Tiki cocktail nerds :>)

As someone who checks TC more frequently than instagram I salute you.

Aviaton Cocktails-Yum!

2 oz gin
1/4 oz maraschino liqueur
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
dash of creme de violette
flamed lemon peel for garnish

Preparation:
Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Shake well.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a flamed lemon peel.

Not a gin guy
Guess I’ve never had any good stuff
But
My brother gave me this yesterday

Wow
So gin can taste great
Who knew

Need more room in my bar

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2018-08-23 06:41 ]

On 2018-08-23 06:40, hang10tiki wrote:
Not a gin guy
Guess I’ve never had any good stuff
But
My brother gave me this yesterday
Wow
So gin can taste great
Who knew
Need more room in my bar

Definitely thank your brother - that's a pricey bottle and the most expensive gin I have in my bar. It's good for sipping. Also try Uncle Val's Botanical Gin, and if you can get it, St. Augustine Gin. These three are capable of converting non-gin drinkers to gin drinkers for life.

Couldn't agree more, Love Uncle Val's and Monkey 47. Like Uncle Val's mixed with Tonic and Monkey 47 in a Gin Martini, can't get any better.

On 2018-08-23 06:40, hang10tiki wrote:
Not a gin guy
Me too Jon til I tried a Last Word. Super easy to put together.

Last Word Cocktail
Equal parts in a shaker;
Gin
Maraschino Liqueur
Green Chartreuse
Lime juice
Big scoop of crused ice.
Shake em up and pour into a chilled coupe. I use 3 oz. of each ingr. to make two fair sized drinks

Saturn Cocktails are a very tasty way to get your Gin fix too but I don’t think a dry gin will do justice to this cocktail. I use a botanical.

Saturn Cocktail
1 1/4 oz Gin
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 ozPassionfruit Syrup
1/4 oz Falernum
1/2 oz Orgeat

Blend with a cup of ice until smooth. Pour unstrained into your chillerd vessel of choice.
Cheers Jon, hope you like em.

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[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2018-08-23 23:59 ]

Aloha A-loh-A

https://www.bgreynolds.com/cocktail-recipes/2018/2/27/aloha-a-loh-a

a variation on the Suffering Bastard from the Grog Log the other evening. Cheers!

**** can someone please explain if there is a way to prevent photos from turning sideways when they are loaded into TC? I am not tech savy, barely figured out how to get the photos on here let alone them getting flipped. Thank you

Not sure why these pictures don't show correctly, but it happens a lot.

On 2018-08-30 09:17, OceaOtica wrote:
**** can someone please explain if there is a way to prevent photos from turning sideways when they are loaded into TC? I am not tech savy, barely figured out how to get the photos on here let alone them getting flipped. Thank you

I have found that, when using my phone, I take my picture AFTER I make sure the phone has detected the angle I'm holding it. Then it should take the photo, save it to memory, and then also properly display it and export it in the orientation which you intended. So --

1. I first aim the phone at my tiki drink so the phone is facing squarely in the direction of the subject material.
2. Then I quickly turn (re-orient) the phone to ensure its sensor registers my new and desired "up" and "down" orientation and then I take my photo.

Hey thanks guys, not sure how you flipped the photo here on TC. Those images dont show up at the wrong angle in emails and such; i dont get the computers haha.
Will double check when i am snapping a pick to see the orientation. Thanks for the heads up!

On National Mai Tai Day, we're enjoying a modern yet traditional version of Trader Vic's classic (Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29 recipe) featuring Appleton Estate rum, Rhum Clément, Orgeat Works and Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao. Okole maluna Victor Bergeron, and happy 74th birthday to the Mai Tai. (Also very impressed with Hay Straws as an all-natural option).
http://beachbumberry.com/recipe-mai-tai.html
https://www.haystraws.com/

Me too

My mint plant died last week, and I forgot to buy some at the store tonight, so the purist in me is irritated with the incomplete garnish. But then I have a sip....

Forgot to share my beverages from Wednesday's trip to Ventiki:
-Jet Pilot
-$25 Mai Tai
-Kona Kula
-VenTi' Punch

7 drinks down on my passport, so so many to go.

On 2018-08-31 10:09, kkocka wrote:
Forgot to share my beverages from Wednesday's trip to Ventiki:
-Jet Pilot
-$25 Mai Tai
-Kona Kula
-VenTi' Punch

7 drinks down on my passport, so so many to go.

What do they put in their $25? And what do you get when you finish your passport?

Tabu Tabu Grog

A rum Sazerac using Stiggns’ Fancy

OO -

On TC you can only post pics taken side to side
Any pic you take up and down:
After you take it
Open pic
Rotate it upside down
Save
Then rotate up in the correct position
Then save
Then you can post it

Odd
But works

Jon

Minus the egg whites
Yuck

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2018-09-03 17:34 ]

Smith and cross painkiller

I'm a sucker for a creative riff on the Planters Punch, and this off-menu creation (featuring Plantation O.F.T.D.) by Casidy Moser at Death Or Glory in Delray Beach hit all the right notes. Keep an eye out for this guy.

man you guys have made me thirsty!

Queen’s Park Swizzle, cause I need a little delightful anesthesia....

mmmm... Queens Park Swizzle!! Dig the cloth cocktail napkin, keep that glass sweat contained

Couple of pain killers last night
Smith n cross

Mai Tai with Plantation Xaymaca. WOW

On 2018-09-06 12:23, OceaOtica wrote:
Dig the cloth cocktail napkin, keep that glass sweat contained

They’re fabric coasters sown by my grandma, so they’re pretty great all around.

On 2018-09-07 20:00, Hamo wrote:
Mai Tai with Plantation Xaymaca. WOW

Where did you get the Xaymaca Hamo?

On 2018-09-08 10:13, Tiki-boss wrote:
Where did you get the Xaymaca Hamo?

Found it in Fort Collins, CO. Hopefully you can find it closer to home. Check out the Xaymaca roll call topic for updates.

Rum Pot

A "Middle Eastern" Cocktail I made up to go with last night's Lebanese dinner. Pomegranate Juice, Grapefruit Juice, Lime Juice, White Rum, Cardamom Rose Syrup, and Club Soda garnished with Cardamom Candied Apricot, Dried Rose Petals, and Mint

Having spent the previous 3-day weekend on a Rum-purchasing road trip, rendering this:

I spent Friday night preparing Honey syrup and ginger syrup, and cracked open my bottle of JE Fassionola (which arrived Thursday), and spent the weekend drinking Cobra's Fangs.

Unfortunately not photographing them, just drinking them.

SBW- nice run

Last night
Double Mai-Tai

Today
Pulled out the Monkey 47

I would recommend a little less lime

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2018-09-10 17:35 ]

Haven't been drinking much the last few years due to high blood pressure, but now that it is down I celebrated a bit with a new bottle of rum (EH Navy), a new book (Smuggler's Cove), a drink mixer (really hated cleaning up the blender), and a Navy Grog (Smuggler's Cove variation).

Rangda- wow
Now that’s a celebration
Cheers

Continuing the Gin theme

Another good 1

Plantation Xaymaca makes a very good Shingle Stain

A Mai Tai to use up the last of Merchant’s Reserve

And an Old Yellowstain

Let’s take the Gin a bit sloe
:)

Double

Ace- thanks for the tip
It’s awesome
Peppered interesting too
Cheers

I couldn’t find the other one you mentioned

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2018-09-15 07:53 ]

Ok
Starting with the early version

No monkey parts used for garnish
:)

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2018-09-15 07:55 ]