Science Of Drink

This (I think so) tiki-cocktail was found on my favorite CocktailDB. It has some strange things in recipe. 15 ml of sugar… Hm-m-m-m… 1 oz of simple syrup? It seems so (very!!!) sweet drink, but I use sweetened pineapple juice and no sugar :)

Treasure Island Special

30 ml light rum
30 ml Jamaican rum
7 ml orange curacao
7 ml peach brandy
15 ml fresh lime juice
60 ml pineapple juice
15 ml sugar
2 drops Angostura bitters
Shake. Strain over ice in a double rocks glass.

Admirable! Treasure Island Special Cocktail is well-balanced and has very interesting piquant rum flavor.

I not sure tiki or not is this cocktail in fact, but I feel that it is tiki :)

A Lulu

30 ml light Puerto Rican rum
15 ml creme de noyeau (I use DiSaronno Originale)
30 ml fresh orange juice
15 ml passion fruit (mixer)
15 ml Galliano
Shake. Strain into ice-filled rocks glass.

As “passion fruit (mixer)” (wtf?) I use mix of passionfruit syrup and fresh lemon juice 1:1. I use Italian almond liqueur Disaronno Originale (Amaretto) instead creme de noyeau (french almond liqueur).

Admirable! Sweet and exotic taste and good balanced.

As you know, I am a Demerara Rums fan :) One fine day I visited Liqurious and see that Trader Tiki posted Rum Pot!!! Of course I try it!

Rum Pot

45 ml Demerara aged rum (El Dorado 12 y.o.)
7 ml vanilla syrup
15 ml passion fruit syrup
20 ml fresh orange juice
20 ml fresh lemon juice
Shake well and pour into Double Rocks Glass.

Admirable! Fantastic cocktail!

P.S. Guyana is NOT island :)

I found this miraculous recipe due to Liqurious. Dear Trader Tiki, thank you for this cocktail. Now in my sity +32 C and this cocktail is a real rescue of my soul.

Trader Vic’s Aku-Aku

30 ml white rum
15 ml peach liqueur
15 ml fresh lime juice
60 g fresh pineapple chunks
8-10 large fresh mint leaves
1 dash simple syrup
1,5 cups crushed ice
Blend until smooth, garnish with mint sprig and pineapple wedge.

Admirable! Not for booze, but for taste!

By the way, I use one of my favorite Demerara El Dorado White as white rum for high aromatic result.

This cocktail has amazing character - as for me is symbol of La Dolce Vita. It is great thing for relax after hard work.

Blue Hawaiian was invented in bar of Zanzibar Club (London, UK). The Blue Hawaiian is a cocktail that contains white rum, blue curacao, pineapple juice and cream of coconut (or creme of coconut ???). However, some recipes substitute cream of coconut with coconut-flavored rum. This cocktail shouldn’t be confused with the similarly named Blue Hawaii (with vodka).

This two more beautiful (as for me, of course) version of Blue Hawaiian Cocktail.

Blue Hawaiian (with a coconut liqueur)

30 ml white rum
30 ml coconut liqueur
30 ml pineapple juice
15 ml blue curacao liqueur
Shake. Serve in double-rocks glass. Garnish with a cherry and pinneaple spear.

Admirable cocktail with very smooth, light, sweet taste.

Blue Hawaiian (with a coconut cream)

40 ml white rum
20 ml pinneaple juice
10 ml blue curacao liqueur
1 tsp coconut cream
Shake vigorously. Serve in cocktail glass. Garnish with piece of pineapple.

This version has so strong and less coconut taste.

For my Blue Hawaiian I use Havana Club Anejo Blanco for very smooth and light cocktail.

One more tiki-cocktail on my blog. The recipe was found on CocktailDB. It has great polynesian name and compositions looks like my favorite Mai Tai with orange juice instead orange liqueur. And this recipe is great chance to use my favorite Demerara rums!

Hukillau

30 ml fresh lemon juice
60 ml fresh orange juice
45 ml gold rum
15 ml demerara rum
15 ml orgeat
Blend all ingredients with a lot of ice. Serve in a double rocks glass. Garnish with fruit stick, mint sprig.

I use Bacardi Gold (Carta de Oro) and one of my favorite rum - El Dorado 12 y.o.

Admirable cocktail! It has very smooth and light taste of rum :)

This version of Zombie cocktail I was found in one book by Salvatore Calabrese. Calabrese say that this is original version of Zombie. I don`t think so, but I can say that this cocktail is very good! :)

Zombie

30 ml light rum
30 ml gold rum
30 ml dark rum
20 ml cherry brandy
20 ml apricot brandy
100 ml pineapple juice
60 ml fresh orange juice
20 ml fresh lime juice
40 ml fresh papaya juice
1 tsp orgeat
15 ml overproof damerara rum
Shake all ingredients except overproof rum. Serve in tall glass (zombie) or hurricane glass. Float overproof rum, garnish with maraschino cherry, piece of pineapple or lime, or orange and sugar powder.

Admirable! This excellent cocktail has very smooth and well-balanced taste. It is not so sweet many other tiki-cocktail and I think is good.

This recipe from From “Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log” by Jeff Berry and Annene Kaye (1998). Coronado Luau Special is signature drink of now defunct Luau Room in San Diego`s hotel Del Coronado.

Delicious mixture of lemon, lime, orange juice and select rums tantalizes with a hint of Grand Marnier work very well on long summer evenings.

Coronado Luau Special

120 ml fresh orange juice
120 ml sweet and sour
10 ml orgeat syrup
30 ml dark Jamaican rum
30 ml light Puerto Rican rum
15 ml Grand Marnier orange liqueur
15 ml brandy
Blend with 1 cup of crushed ice for several seconds. Pour into a large tiki mug or tall glass.

Admirable cocktail!

I purshased two great hurricane glass last summer. This beautiful big glasses needed something beautiful and unusuall. First of all I found cocktail of the same name - Hurricane. And I come tiki-cocktail-lovers with Hurricane cocktail. Now I want to describe some of my favorite recipes of Hurricane Cocktail.

You may read interesting Hurricane recipe comparsion on Rick`s Kaiser Penguin blog. I want to introduce three versions of Hurricane - classical, version by Dale Degroff and unusuall Hurricane Merylin by Salvatore Calabrese.

The key ingredient of classical Hurricane is passion fruit syrup. Common I use Passion fruit Syrup by Monin.

Hurricane

50 ml light rum
50 ml dark rum
30 ml passion fruit syrup
30 ml fresh orange juice
30 ml fresh lime juice
1 tsp. grenadine
Shake. Hurricane glass. Garnish with a flag.

I use Captain Morgan Black and Old Pascas White (Barbados) for this cocktail. The drink has bright sweet taste with some bitternes of lime.

Hurricane (Dale DeGroff)

30 ml dark rum
30 ml light rum
15 ml Galliano
20 ml fresh lime juice
30 ml passion fruit syrup
45 ml fresh orange juice
45 ml pineapple juice
1 dash Angostura bitter
Shake. Hurricane glass. Garnish with tropical fruit.

This mix is one of my favorite tropical cocktail. The drink has super-smooth sweet taste with hint of vanilla and tropic candy. It is great version! Extremely delicious cocktail!

Hurricane Merylin (Salvatore Calabrese)

20 ml Pusser’s rum
20 ml Bacardi rum
10 ml canadian whisky Seagrams
10 ml Cointreau
70 ml cranberry juice
70 ml guava juice
20 ml fresh lemon juice
1-2 drops of grenadine
Shake. Hurricane. Garnish with a strawberry, mint and kiwi slice.

This Hurricane is light and smooth. The drink has very interesting and unusuall taste. I use Angostura 1919 rum and Canadian Club White Label for mix. I think I have good results. Actually I like this cocktail very much.

I think Zombie is amazing cocktail. I investigate recipe of this cocktail during long time, and I understand that Zombie is a complex, well-balanced strong tiki-drink with a lot of variations. It is good for me. I have not falernum or 151-proof rum, which are mentioned in many recipes, but I have many excellent componenets such as aged damerara rums or exotic liqueurs, which I would try in this cocktail.

I construct own Zombie recipe with mix of four citrus juices, passion fruit syrup, exotic orange liqueur and four rums. Please try it and comment my creations.

Zombie #7

10 ml fresh lime juice
10 ml fresh lemon juice
10 ml fresh grapefruit juice
50 ml fresh orange juice
15 ml passion fruit syrup
1 tsp. grenadine
30 ml BOLS Red Orange liqueur
20 ml white rum
20 ml gold rum
20 ml dark rum
1 dash Angostura bitters
15 ml aged damerara rum
Shake all ingredients (except damerara rum) in ice-filled shaker. Strain in to zombie glass (or hurricane) with crushed ice. Float damerara rum. Garnish with exotic fruit.

Admirable!!! It is beautifull drink. I think, what I would try many variations of Zombie on this summer.

To be continued…