Goodnight, Longitude

Today (March 5, 2017) was the last day of operation for Longitude, a 3-year old Tiki (and Adventure!) bar in Oakland, California, opened by Suzanne Long in 2014. Here's a video tour, courtesy of Humuhumu on Critiki. Though I'm not a local, I visited Longitude several times and I'm sad to see it go. I don't have any Longitude-specific cocktail recipes available to me, so I'm instead raising a rum barrel in their "Queens Barrel" mug in honor of Longitude. I'm excited to hear what Suzanne may do next. Aloha, Longitude.

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Outrigger

This simple cocktail (obscured here by a Trader Vic's PDX mug by Munktiki) was the first recipe featured on the first episode of this here show. I pulled the recipe from Beachbum Berry Remixed and for this instance of the Outrigger I omitted the sugared rim.

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Pago Pago

As published in Beachbum Berry Remixed, the Pago Pago is a 1963 recipe served in 3 restaurants operated by Dean Short in Arizona - the pago Pago, Kon-Tiki, and Ports 'O Call. Word is, a lot of Dean's recipes were lifted from Don the Beachcomber by way of hiring one of their bartenders.

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Pieces of Eight

Recipe published in Jeff Berry's Beachbum Berry Remixed, originating from the Marina del Rey restaurant of the same name in the early 60s. Mug from Tiki Farm, swizzle by Grider. Cue the Paul Page.

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Myrtle Bank Punch

From Beachbum Berry's Potions of the Caribbean, this is the Donn Beach version of a punch from Jamaica's Myrtle Beach Hotel. Both Donn and Vic had a version on their menus and they were quite different. Don's version is similar to his Navy Grog in the ingredients, and is quite enjoyable though it doesn't taste that similar to a Navy Grog. There is some truth to the rumor that I chose this version for this post because I have fresh white grapefruit on hand.

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