- https://punchdrink.com/recipes/elusive-dreams/
- https://punchdrink.com/recipes/tiki-tak/
- Gorilla Panic https://www.instagram.com/p/CVgT1XFhVFU/
- https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/The-Naked-Ape-Cocktail/
- https://www.liberandcompany.com/products/breakfast-mai-tai
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Tiki/comments/1bnt496/whats_your_favorite_recipe_that_uses_banana/
Tag: tiki
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Tiki drinks with Banana liqueur
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Homemade Falernum
2023 attempt
Paul Clarke’s Falernum number 10: https://thelosttikilounge.com/ingredients/falernum-guide/
- 6 oz Overproof White Rum – Wray & Nephew recommended
- 9 Limes, zested – preferably organic
- 40 Cloves, toasted – buy a new pack – don’t use the ones from last Christmas!
- 2 tbsp Blanched Slivered Almonds, toasted
- 1/2 tsp Almond Extract
- 2 oz Fresh Ginger, peeled and sliced or julienned
- 14 oz Rich Simple Syrup – 2:1 ratio, cold preparation
Method
- Zest the limes with a microplane grater, zester or vegetable peeler, making sure to leave all the white pith behind. And watch those knuckles! Adding human flesh really won’t enhance the flavour.
- Toast the cloves in a dry pan over a medium heat, shaking frequently, just until they begin to become aromatic, then remove from the heat.
- Toast the almonds, shaking frequently, until they begin to turn light brown, then remove from the heat.
- Peel the ginger and either slice it into thin batons or julienne it.
- Add the lime zest, cloves, almonds, ginger and the rum in a pint-sized jar and allow to macerate for 24 hours. Every now and then, take a moment to review your creation. It looks green, strange, almost luminous. Give it a shake. Awesome.
- Strain the infusion into your final container through a muslin or a moistened cheesecloth. Make sure to give it a good squeeze at the end to get every last drop of potent liquid out. If it’s still a bit ‘gritty’, run it through a second time, or if really stubborn try something like a coffee filter to help refine it.
- To make the rich simple syrup, add 2 cups of sugar (preferably super-fine) and 1 cup of cold (or slightly tepid) water to a large jar. Seal the lid and shake until the sugar is completely dissolved. If you’re struggling to get it to liquefy, add it to a pan and put it on a very low heat, stirring every few minutes until the liquid is clear.
- Measure 14 ounces of your syrup and pour into your final container along with the rum infusion and the almond extract, give it a shake to combine, and you’re done!
2024 attempt
Basically the 5 Min Mixing Up Tiki method, but with some of the ingredients doubled for more flavor.
Makes 375ml. I doubled it.
Gum syrup, 1:1
- 125ml water
- 125ml cane sugar
- 20g gum arabic
- 1g citric acid
Blend together with an immersion blender.
Infused Rum
- 187.5ml rum (Lemon Hart 151)
- 3g whole cloves
- 12g lime peels
- 10g chopped ginger
- 30 drops almond extract
Blend together with an immersion blender and let mingle for an hour or two while you have dinner or finish work. Strain and filter.
Mix both together and shake. Should be shelf stable.
Notes
In the future I think I’ll make this again, but with a bit of nutmeg and allspice.
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Orange Shrubbs
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tiki/comments/1bf4bwn/how_do_clement_hamilton_and_jm_shrubbs_compare/
I’ve tried Clement, and like it. I decided to try JM Shrubb next.
Astor Wines has Clement, JM, and Hamilton Shrubbs.
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House Pearl Diver
Slight deviation from the classic based on what we usually have in our bar.
- 1.5oz unaged rum (Probitas)
- 1oz peach brandy
- 1oz House Gardenia Mix
- 1/2oz Jamaican rum (Smith and Cross)
- 1/2oz lime juice
- 3 drops Elemakule tiki bitters
Blend with 1/2 cup ice. Add to glass and top with crusted ice. Garnish with flower and freshly grated nutmeg.
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House Gardenia Mix
The idea of using orgeat for a slightly nutty component came to me when I was looking at Gaby Mlynarczyk’s version of the mix, which browns the butter and uses macadamia nut liqueur. I make orgeat with heavily toasted almonds, so it fits the bill. I’d like to try browning the butter for this recipe, too.
- 2oz softened unsalted butter
- 2oz honey
- 1oz orgeat
- 2tsp cinnamon syrup
- 1tsp vanilla bean paste
- 1tsp allspice dram
Makes enough for ~6 drinks.
Whisk together. Store remainder in the fridge and mix again before using.
Drinks to use it in:
- House Pearl Diver
- Coffee Grog
- Try subbing this in for coconut cream in drinks like the White Cloud
- Polynesian Pearl Diver
- Pontchartrain Pearl Diver (Latitude 49)
- Cold Buttered Rum from Liquid Intelligence
- Basically you can do Gardenia, home-spiced rum, and lime juice.
- Polynesian Forty Niner from False Idol
- 3/4oz orange juice
- 3/4oz lime juice
- 1/2oz pear brandy
- 1/2oz madeira
- 1-1/2oz chai-infused bourbon
- Mystery Gardenia
- 1/2oz fresh lime juice
- 3/4oz Gardenia mix (I up it to a full ounce)
- 1 1/2oz “Cuban style” light rum
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- Blend with crushed ice, double-strain into coupe glass, garnish with “the finest sprig of mint you can find”.
- Hidden Harbor’s Treasure Diver
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Mocktails
Standard
Temperance Grapefruit Collins
- 2 oz Grapefruit Juice
- 1 oz Lime Juice
- .5 oz Simple Syrup
- Top Soda Water
Faker Face
From Regarding Cocktails
- 0.75 oz lime juice
- 0.75 oz Grenadine
- 1 oz orange juice
- 2 oz club soda, to top
Tiki
Designated Diver
- 1 oz fresh lemon juice
- 1 oz orange juice
- 1 oz passion fruit purée (not syrup!)
- ¾ oz vanilla syrup
- 1 oz club soda
Shake everything but the soda with ice. Put in a tiki mug and top with soda.
Children’s Motrin
Painkiller, but no alcohol
- 2 oz pineapple
- 1 oz passionfruit puree
- 1 oz OJ
- 1.5 oz cream of coconut
- Top with club soda
Mockingbird – Junglebird riff
- Sub sanbitter soda for campari, use demerara syrup
Fassionola Soda
- fassionola-soda: 1-2 part(s) fassionola syrup, top with seltzer, maybe a squirt of lime juice
- Try a splash of orgeat
POG Juice
- Passionfruit, Orange, Guava juice, top with soda.
Orgeat Fizz
- 1/2oz fresh lime juice
- 1 1/2oz orgeat syrup
- soda water to fill
Pineapple Coconut Passion
- 4 oz pineapple juice
- 1 oz cream of coconut
- 1 oz passion fruit puree
- Shake with crushed ice and dirty dump into a glass.
Saturn Mocktail
- ½ oz coconut water
- ½ oz. fresh lemon juice
- ¼ oz. passion fruit purée
- ½ oz. orgeat
- ¼ oz. falernum syrup
Quarantine Order Mocktail
- 1oz grapefruit juice
- 1oz lime juice
- 1/2oz cinnamon syrup
- 1/2oz passionfruit syrup
- 3oz ginger beer
- 5 dashes angostura bitters
Beachcomber Fizz
- 3/4 oz cinnamon syrup
- 3/4 oz lime juice
- optional 2 dashes of angostura bitters
- 4-6 oz of fever tree grapefruit soda
0.0 Navy Grog
- 3/4oz lime juice
- 3/4oz grapefruit juice
- 3/4oz Honey syrup (3:1)
- 2oz black tea* with 1 tsp black molasses
*I chose a tea with a strong cinnamon, allspice and ginger flavour to make up for the lack of allspice dram.
Don’t Touch My Car Keys
- .75 oz Lime Juice
- .5 oz Coconut Syrup
- 2-3 oz Soda Water To taste
Add ingredient to tin
Add pebble or crushed ice and whip shake
Pour into glass and fill with pebble ice
Garnish with Angostura Bitters and Mint SprigMai Tai Soda
- Lime soda water
- Half a lime
- Orgeat
- orange bitters
Don’s Virtue
- 1.5oz Grapefruit Juice
- 1oz Lime Juice
- 1oz Honey Syrup
- 1/2oz Allspice Syrup
- Apple Slice and Cinnamon Stick Garnish
Virgin Hurricane
- Sub in coconut water for the rum.
Tailless Scorpion
- 3 oz. orange juice
- 1 1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
- 3/4 oz. orgeat syrup
Virgin Missionary’s Downfall
- Sub more pineapple juice for the rum, and sub peach syrup for the peach liquour
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Mai Tai Rum Mix
2023-09-16. In a 750ml bottle:
- ~180ml Hamilton Jamaican Black Pot Still
- ~180ml Appleton Signature
- ~180ml Plantation OFTD
- ~180ml Real McCoy 5
- Fill the remaining space in the bottle with Rhum J.M Gold
For 1 classic 1944 Mai Tai, use 2oz of this mix in the drink.
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Amaro-based Tiki Drinks
Yeah, I know all of these things aren’t strictly amaro (like Benedictine), but they fit the bitter profile, which is what I’m going for here.
- Jungle Bird (Campari)
- Artichoke Hold (Cynar)
- Amaro di Cocco (Campari)
- Angostura Colada (Angostura bitters – a lot!)
- Lost Lake (Campari)
- Turnbuckle (Cynar)
- Montenegro for Two (Montenegro)
- Across the Pacific (Averna)
- Roman Holiday (Meletti, Campari, cold brew coffee)
- Kingdom of Savoy (Absinthe, Nardini, Branca Menta)
- Chartreuse Swizzle (Green Chartreuse)
- Bainbridge (Amaro di Angostura)
- Formidable Dragon (Amaro di Angostura)
- Inside the Sun (Montenegro)
- The Bobsled (Fernet)
- St. Lucian (Averna)
From Sippin Santa
- Kris Kringle Colada (Cynar)
- Sippin Santa (Averna)
- Christmas Eve of Destruction (Benedictine)
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Rum
Minimalist Tiki breaks down rums into 6 categories:
- Aged Jamaican Rum
- Lightly Aged/Filtered Rum
- Moderately Aged Rum
- Aged Demerara Rum
- Overproof Demerara Rum
- Aged Agricole Rum
My notes on my go-tos or what I’m looking for in each category:
Aged Jamaican Rum
- Smith & Cross. It is a little higher proof, but so good.
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- Monymusk Special Reserve
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- Rum-Bar Gold
- Coruba Dark
Lightly Aged/Filtered Rum
- Banks 5 Island
- McCoy 3
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- Hidden Harbor White Rum
- Plantation 3
Moderately Aged Rum
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Appleton Signature Blend
- Denizen Merchant’s Reserve
- Gosling’s Black Seal
Aged Demerara Rum
- McCoy 5
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- El Dorado 5 Year
- Hamilton 86
- Plantation 5
- El Dorado 12
Overproof Demerara Rum
- Plantation OFTD
- Hamilton 151
- Lemon Hart 151
Aged Agricole Rum
- Rhum J.M Gold
- Clément Select Barrel
- Neisson Eleve Sous Bois
What some local stores carry
- Dylan’s Wine Cellar
- Smith & Cross
- McCoy 3 and 5
- Monymusk Special Reserve
- Ordered for me:
- Plantation OFTD
- Rum-Bar Gold
- Beach Wine and Liquor
- Appleton Signature
- Barbancourt 3 star and 5 star
- Gosling Black Seal
- Myers
- Mount Gay
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- All Seasons Yorktown
- Appleton Signature, 8, and 12
- Angostura 5
- Barbancourt 5 star
- Flor de Cana 7 and 12
- Gosling Black Seal
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Plantation 5 and Xo
- Real McCoy 3, 5, and 12
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- Mohegan Wines
- Appleton Signature
- El Dorado 5
- Flor de Cana 12 and Anejo
- Gosling Black Seal
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Myers
- Plantation 3
- Sao Paulo Cachaca
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- Westchester Wine Warehouse
- Stew Leonard’s Yonkers
- Beacon Wine & Spirits
- Plantation Dark, Pineapple, 3, Barbados Grand Reserve
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- Pusser’s Navy
- Barbancourt 5 and 15
- Gosling’s Black and Gold
- El Dorado 15
- Angostura 7
- Van Wyck, Croton
- Plantation 3
- Pusser’s Navy
- Velho Cachaca
- Leblon Cachaça
- Wray and Nephew
- Flor de Cana 4 and Gold
- Row 13, Cortlandt
- Lemon Hart 151
- Wray & Nephew
- Pusser’s Blue
- Gosling’s Black Seal
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Cuca Cachaca
- Paute Zhumir
- SLD Peekskill
- Wray & Nephew
- Plantation Island of Fiji
- Real McCoy 3, 5, and 12
- Dodds Millwood
- Doctor Bird
- Lemon Hart 151
- Appleton Estate