TIKI CULTURE

Your Weekend Tiki Cocktail: Walk The Plank

This weekend we’ve got TWO (yes, TWO!) Tiki Bar Cocktails for you!

I recently had a request for something easy, to take the sting off a bad hockey game. Well, this is easy, strong, velvety and is potent enough to take the sting offa anything. So here is a pirate favorite,

Walk The Plank

Pour 1/2 shot each of:

Dark Rum
Spiced Rum
Frangelico
Kahlua

straight from the bottle into a shot glass, and slam it down. Yikes! Or, you can sip it…it’s nice and smooth. A variation is to pour it over the rocks and stir with some half and half…a sort of a souped-up Kahlua and cream. Nice.

The second drink comes from the headlines. Not that I give a damn about what’s going on in Hollywood, but you have to admit this whole Charlie Sheen thing is funny as hell (Have you seen his “cooking show” on Funny or Die?). My first thought was there needs to be a Tiger Blood cocktail. But, unfortunately, a sushi joint in NYC beat me to the punch with their own “Tiger’s Blood” cocktail. Thing is, this saki and wasabi abomination has no place on a Tiki bar. So, I asked the Tikitastic people that hang out at Facebook’s Retro Tiki Lounge to come up with a better recipe. Didn’t get many; Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid suggested that it should contain Indian whiskey, you know, because of Indian Tigers. My lovely wife Colleen suggested citrus vodka, blood orange juice, club soda and lime…a great combination, but hey, she’s my wife, so she couldn’t win the little contest.

So, the winner is Robert Millar, who came up with:

The Tiger’s Blood Cocktail

1 shot Benedictine
1 shot Brandy
1 shot Chambord

Sounds good to me! I didn’t have the Benedictine so I couldn’t try it out, but it’s better than a cocktail that includes soy sauce so, Congrats, Robert! You get your Tiger’s Blood Cocktail recipe here on TLT!

-Tiki Chris P. reporting from behind the bar at Pirate’s Cove Tiki Lounge, the Blounge of South Florida.

The Blue Monkey: A Fast Tiki Drink Recipe for Another Week Gone by FASSST!

The Blue Monkey

Wow, seems like just yesterday I posted our Valentine’s Day movie special, and now it’s already Friday. I had a lot of fun ideas for this week, but life among the coconuts kind of threw me for a loop. Lots of kookie stuff going on…so without any more goofy excuses, here’s a quicky cocktail for the weekend:

The Blue Monkey

1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz coconut rum
1 1/2 oz orange juice
1/2 oz pineapple juice

Fill a hurricane glass with ice, pour in the stuff and stir. Drape with orange, pineapple & cherry garnish, plus one of those little plastic monkeys that hangs off the side of the glass. This drink is sweeter than a lot of Tiki drink lovers dig, but you can level it our with a little more pineapple juice and some bitters.

Enjoy the Weekend, kids!

-Tiki Chris P. reporting from the lounge at Pirate’s Cove Tiki Bar, Florida

New Tiki Cocktail Recipes Page Launched at Tiki Lounge Talk!

I know there’s a bizillion books and websites where you can find Tiki bar recipes, but I’ve found that trying to find a site that just has a kool list of kool drinks isn’t so easy. So here it is, a list of every cocktail recipe we’ve posted at Tiki Lounge Talk, from the cornerstone of Tiki Culture, the Mai Tai, to my own concoctions like The Tiki Galore.

It’s a fun list, in no particular order, and sends you to the original post where you’ll get the recipe and maybe even a movie idea and a few laughs. So fill up the ice bucket, light up the Tiki Torches and have a blast!

(Click on “Tiki Cocktails!” in the upper left corner of this site!)

By the way, if you want even more exciting exotic cocktails, check out:

Tiki Tender

The Retro Cocktail Cafe (facebook)

Perfect Cocktails

Tiki Drink Recipes

and Secret Tiki Drink Recipes

-Captain Mack reporting from behind the bar at Pirate’s Cove

Your Weekend Tiki Cocktail: The Captain’s Eggnog Grog

Eggnog in a Tiki Mug, with plenty of rum. mmmm.

It’s that time of year when we start drinking raw eggs with alcohol mixed into them. I don’t know who started this krazy idea, but it stuck. Now, this kat right here isn’t adverse to cheating a little when it comes to building a drink that starts off with something that takes a lot of effort to create, so my infamous Eggnog Grog is more about what you add to the Nog than how you execute the Nog’s state of being, dig?

The Captain’s Eggnog Grog

Two quarts good, thick, old-fashioned pasteurized eggnog, preferably fresh (not canned)
One Fifth Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
One Cup Meyer’s Dark Rum
One-half Cup Coconut Rum
About Two Tablespoons Cinnamon
About One Tablespoon Nutmeg
One Dozen Chocolate Chip Cookies
One rocks glass
Tiki Mugs
Cinnamon Sticks
Star Fruit

(Note: Be mindful of the date on the eggnog…the booze will kill off most germs for a while longer, but don’t take any chances with eggs!)

I am making my batch as I type this so bear with me. Empty the nog into a large bowl for mixing. Pour a shot of Meyer’s into the rocks glass and taste. If it’s good, add Meyer’s Rum, Coconut Rum and spices. Stir. Now add a shot of Captain to the rocks glass and taste. It should be pretttty good, tooo. Blend in Captain Morgan to nog until it tastes really good. This will be about two cupsses. Period…periodical…aly…Ev’re coupla minitz test all rums for flavor. yum. stir in allla deez rums in the bowl and tessts for flabor. Pour into a ceramic gallonon jug and refrigfferate for at least toooo days before serving it out up to yer um guestsssz. Granish with a cimminin stik and a slize of starf root.

Merfy Chrissmiss!

-Tiki Chris repforting from under the tree at Tiki Loonge Talk.

Your Weekend Tiki Bar Drink Recipe: The Bali Hai Ball, and Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon

It’s Happy Hour at the Tiki Bar!

That’s right kats and kittens, you get two for the price of one this week at the Tiki Bar! One I found while looking for something completely different, one I found while looking for a use for some aging cream of coconut. First, lets hit a very groovy Tiki Bar Cocktail,

The Bali Hai Ball

Even the name is great. I found the recipe at a very hip site, Tiki Drink Recipes.com…here it goes…

1 oz vodka
1/2 oz light rum
1/2 oz banana liqueur
1 oz pina colada mix
1 oz pineapple juice

Shake it up with ice in a shaker and serve in a tall Tiki Mug or Highball glass and garnish with all the fruit you can find. And I don’t see any reason why you can’t add a little cream of coconut in there, too.

I found the second recipe on a book reader site, biblioklept.org. This is taken directly from their site. Check it out, there’s some fun stuff there. (Click here to see the entire post)

“Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon

A recipe for a drink named after Hemingway’s novel Death in the Afternoon was published in the 1935 cocktail book So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon by Sterling North and Carl Kroch. Here’s that recipe–

Add one jigger of absinthe to a champagne flute
Add iced champagne until it attains the proper opalescence.
A small amount of sugar or Gomme syrup can be added to round it out, especially when using a verte absinthe.

Here’s Hemingway’s note on the drink’s origin–

This was arrived at by the author and three officers of the H.M.S. Danae after having spent seven hours overboard trying to get Capt. Bra Saunders’ fishing boat off a bank where she had gone with us in a N.W. gale.”

Hemingway House in Key West, Florida

Being a Floridian who frequents Key West, I’ve been to Hemingway’s house down there (a hell of a place) and of course to his old watering holes. I can tell you I’ve never seen this on any of the drink menus, or even heard it murmured among the locals. I guess the whole Absinthe thing keeps it from being commercially viable.

A few mentions…

For my South Florida fans, the Broward County Fair finishes up this weekend, with a classic car show on Saturday and rides open through Sunday. Check it out at http://browardfair.org.

Also next Saturday, December 11, the City of Hollywood, FL will be having a Hawaiian Holiday at the ArtsPark. This is a free holiday-themed Polnesian show that will feature entertainers from Hollywood-based Ohana Arts. More info here.

With any luck, my Tiki lady & I will be at both events. I’ll be the guy in the Hawaiian shirt. Come up and say Aloha!

-Tiki Chris reporting from Pirate’s Cove Tiki Bar for Tiki Lounge Talk, the interwebs’ b-lounge for Tiki Culture fans and Retro Hep Cats, Daddy-O!

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