When we host a party, my wife often tells me she wants a cocktail(s) that will pair with food “X” for which she can coordinate a name, even the colors she wants. This time she wanted a cocktail with tequila and pineapple. While there are a few delicious, classic pineapple/tequila…
Tepache is pineapple, top removed, chunked, unpeeled, juiced, then mixed with a few spices and sugar and allowed to ferment, uncovered, first at room temperature and then in the refrigerator, with whatever is in the air, for one week. If pineapple juice and hard cider had a baby – it…
It is Mixology Monday! The theme, “Drink of Shame,” is the invention of our host Tipicular Fixins. We have all quaffed a few sweet, strange libations and I have imbibed my share of questionable drinks. This Month’s challenge, (now that we are real mixologists), is to create a cocktail that…
This should be served flaming. Either double the recipe and serve in a scorpion bowl, or float an inverted lime half with 151 rum soaked piece of bread. You can sub the Key Lime Bitters with orange bitters. 2 oz. Mount Gay Gold Rum 1 oz. Orange juice 1 oz.…
The first “Blue Drink.” Invented in 1957 by Harry Yee of the Hilton Hawaiian Village. It was an instant hit and, yes, the movie was named for the drink! 1 ½ oz. vodka 2 oz. pineapple juice ¾ oz. lemon juice ¾ oz. blue curacao ¼ oz. simple syrup ½…
From the Kuala Lumpur Hilton. 1 ½ oz. dark Jamaican Rum (such as Appleton) ¾ oz. Campari 4 oz. pineapple juice ½ oz. Lime juice ½ oz. simple syrup Chill an old fashioned glass with ice and water While the glass chills, combine all of the ingredients in a shaker.…
This is my version of rum punch which I would like to claim I invented somewhere in the islands, but it was actually at home in Texas! I recently added the Orgeat and Key Lime Bitters. You can sub Angostura Bitters but you do need something to offset the sweetness…
This is Trader Vic’s recipe except he used dark rum rather than gold rum. I also usually use homemade grenadine rather than cherry juice. Either way, there is good reason that this is one of the great Tiki drinks. 2 oz. Mount Gay Gold Rum ½ oz. lime juice ½…
One thing we like less than cloyingly sweet drinks is making one for someone. So this is our interpretation of this classic. 1 ½ oz. citrus vodka ½ oz. lemon juice ½ oz. pineapple juice ½ oz. St Germain Elderflower Liqueur ½ oz. simple syrup Chill a cocktail glass with…
Before Tiki was Tiki and before Donn Beach and Trader Vic were born, there was the Singapore Sling. The original was created in 1905 at the Raffle’s Hotel in Singapore. This is a mid-century version.