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Trying the Hamilton Blonde in an equal parts planter's punch. This stuff tastes a lot darker than it looks.

Mai Tai and Menehune Juice for my sister and brother-in-law last night

I enjoyed the Menehune Juice more than the last time I made it. Used light Cruzan but I'd guess Plantation 3 Star would make it really tasty.

Jason Alexander's Mai Tai Planter's Punch

Just received my Mai-Kai Club card and vouchers, so I thought I'd celebrate by breaking in Tiki Diablo's 2018 Mai-Kai Barrel Mug and Grider Torch Swizzle ...

The drink is the classic Mai-Kai Barrel 'O Rum with a new dark Jamaican rum blend.

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The Tiki Times | The Mai-Kai Cocktail Guide

[ Edited by: Hurricane Hayward 2019-04-28 20:13 ]

On 2019-04-28 20:12, Hurricane Hayward wrote:
a new dark Jamaican rum blend.

Come on, you can't just tease us like that! What bottles do I need to run out and buy a case of?

Pink Harmony from page 138 of Trader Vic’s Rum Cookery and Drinkery.

Happy Lei Day!

My own Golden Forbidden Lei (sans garnish)

Good morning

Bay Breeze

Ironic that this is much better with anything other than Trader Vic’s spiced rum, but it’s still a good way to get rid of the bottle I bought in a momentary lapse of judgment.

A late May the Fourth cocktail, a tribute to Peter Mayhew based on the iconic drink at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort: The Chewbacscratcher ...

Because Chewie really looks like he needs a good back scratch.

Skull and Bones, with Kevin's suggested substitute of OFTD

Snow's falling; this calls for a Mai Tai. Made with 2 oz Xaymaca.

Siboney

1950s Zombie

That Grider Torch Swizzle is the coolest ever!

Supper cool mug too Danny!

On 2019-04-28 20:12, Hurricane Hayward wrote:
Just received my Mai-Kai Club card and vouchers, so I thought I'd celebrate by breaking in Tiki Diablo's 2018 Mai-Kai Barrel Mug and Grider Torch Swizzle ...

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2019-05-13 10:19 ]

Yesterday I made all of the moms in my family Zombies. I was the designated driver so I went without. Had one today and It was delish! . Remarkably easy to prepare.

Zombie (1950) by The Atomic Grog
1 ounce fresh lime juice

1 ounce fresh lemon juice

1 ounce unsweetened pineapple juice

1 ounce passion fruit syrup

1 ounce white Puerto Rican rum

1 ounce gold Puerto Rican rum
1 ounce 151-proof Demerara rum

1 teaspoon brown sugar

1 dash Angostura bitters
Dissolve sugar in lemon and/or lime juice. Shake everything well with crushed ice and pour into a tall glass. Garnish with a mint sprig.
I have not restocked my bar yet so I used what I had-Wray and Sons silver, Pyrat, and Hamilton 151. Not sure that
I wanna try any of the many Zombie recipes out thete
Cheers

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2019-05-13 23:23 ]

On 2019-05-13 10:18, tikiskip wrote:
That Grider Torch Swizzle is the coolest ever!

It really is!! Grider Co. was a vendor at the last Trader Vic's Hawaiian Bazaar and I was lucky enough to grab the very last one they had that day. So well made (as is all of their stuff). A little lemon extract and Bob's yer uncle.

Enjoying Hurricane No. 2 from Georgi Radev's brand new book, "Let's Get Tropical: More than 60 Cocktail Recipes from Caribbean Classics to Modern Tiki Drinks." It features many interesting interpretations of the classics ...

Mai Tais and Mojitos for the extended family tonight

Mai Tai testing Kevin's rum blend. Pretty tasty (just wish I had some mint)

Plantation Pineapple Daiquiri

Picked up the 23 and 24 years
Wow
Very different but very good

Cheers

The Showdown

Skull and Bones with a rum blend inspired by that episode of 5 Minutes of Rum with the Golden Devil Navy Strength.

Mai Tai using Blair's blend of Barbancourt 5 Star and Appleton 12, which is pretty tasty

On 2019-05-29 20:31, Hamo wrote:
Mai Tai using Blair's blend of Barbancourt 5 Star and Appleton 12, which is pretty tasty

That was my blend of choice for many a year before I started experimenting with using two molasses-based rums together for a MT. Still like to whip it out every once in a while but for some reason I can't seem to keep Barbancourt around the house long enough to mix with it...

[ Edited by: hiltiki 2019-05-30 08:58 ]

Buz-Tai (after a few margaritas; hope this ends well....)

A lost cocktail at The Mai-Kai in preparation for The Hukilau ...

Today's drinks:

Waverider Shandy

Chartreuse Swizzle

Club Babita

Dinner at Ohana Grille in Denver

I asked for my Mai Tai with Myers’s in place of Sailor Jerry’s

The Nightmarcher, with okolehao, was much better

We're headed to Denver in October to celebrate our anniversary, visit the missus' family, and see a concert - we'll have to try this place!

Navy grog at the Tonga Hut. Normally I mix my own drinks during the week, but after spending all day testing hot aspahlt in the glare of the hot sun, I decided I deserved to sit in a cool, dark place for a while and let someone else do the mixing.

On 2019-06-03 12:59, HopeChest wrote:
We're headed to Denver in October to celebrate our anniversary, visit the missus' family, and see a concert - we'll have to try this place!

Food was good, drinks were fine. We sat outside (because winter is finally over); it's right across from Sloan Lake, which is nice, but Sheridan Blvd is very busy with traffic, so it almost canceled out the good.

If you have the time (and don't mind me crashing your anniversary celebration), let me know and maybe I can come down and meet up at Adrift or Hidden Idol.

Queen's Park Swizzle

Rum Jumbie

On 2019-06-04 21:07, Hamo wrote:

On 2019-06-03 12:59, HopeChest wrote:
We're headed to Denver in October to celebrate our anniversary, visit the missus' family, and see a concert - we'll have to try this place!

Food was good, drinks were fine. We sat outside (because winter is finally over); it's right across from Sloan Lake, which is nice, but Sheridan Blvd is very busy with traffic, so it almost canceled out the good.

If you have the time (and don't mind me crashing your anniversary celebration), let me know and maybe I can come down and meet up at Adrift or Hidden Idol.

Absolutely! We'll have to hook up for a drink or seven for sure. We're seeing Stereolab at the Ogden Theatre so Hidden Idol was definitely on the itinerary, what with it being just a mile down the road. If my niece is still working at Illegal Pete's on the same block as Adrift then that is a definite as well - that's some serious sober-up factor there.

Today's drinks

Jamaica Farewell

The Cameo

Officer's Mai Tai

Daiquiri

Tiki Pat's Grog

Menehune Juice (with Plantation 3 Stars) and Mai Tai (with S&C, OFTD, Appleton 12, and Xaymaca) while catching up on The Quiet Village Podcast

Bali Bali with Papaya Lotus garnish. Light rum, dark rum, cognac, gin, lime, pineapple, orange, falernum and cinnamon.

Acquired some grapefruit juice, so made a Hemmlngway and Tabu Tabu Grog

Great page
Ya made me thirsty

Got my new smoker
So

Wife: El Dorado 15 neat
Me: Rum old fashioned

Smoked with apple wood

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2019-06-12 21:18 ]

Last page great
Of course it started a new one

Whew; glad to see I'm not drinking alone. Cool garnish, Mike. Those applewood smoked drinks look interesting, H10.

Opened to a random page in Remixed to find that I had all the ingredients to try a new drink: the Mara-Amu

Allspicy Daiquiri

Don't have any of Dale DeGroff's Pimento Bitters, so I subbed four dashes of "spiced bitters", which are 1:1 ratio of Angostura and pimento dram, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Thanks, Hurricane Howard!

Cobra’s Fang (Copycat Co recipe)

First drink with my first batch of homemade falernum. Still sporting a zested finger from all those limes but it’s delicious.

Okole maluna Hamo!

FYI, you can find more on the Mara Amu here:
http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2011/07/02/mai-kai-cocktail-review-mara-amu/

On 2019-06-13 22:32, Hamo wrote:
Allspicy Daiquiri

Don't have any of Dale DeGroff's Pimento Bitters, so I subbed four dashes of "spiced bitters", which are 1:1 ratio of Angostura and pimento dram, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Thanks, Hurricane Howard!

Going through The Hukilau withdrawls? I recommend the hair of the dog ...

My educated guess on the recipe ...
1 oz Gunpowder
1 oz Appleton
1/4 oz cinnamon
1 oz pineapple
1/2 oz lime
1 dash Angostura

I thought it was a bit juicy and one-dimensional, so I added bitters and passion fruit syrup:
2 oz Real McCoy 5 (or any good aged Barbados rum)
3/4 oz passion fruit syrup
1/2 oz pineapple juice
1/4 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz lime juice
1 dash Angostura

I later heard from William Prestwood, general manager at Pagan Idol. He agreed that syrup is the way to go, then gave us some cool history:
"The name comes from the 1945 Tonga Room menu. 15ml lemon, 15ml lime, 30ml passionfruit syrup, 30ml pineapple, 60ml Real McCoy 5 (Distiller's proof if you can get it)."

Okole maluna!

[ Edited by: Hurricane Hayward 2019-06-16 10:17 ]