5 Minutes of Rum
Notes on rum, a few minutes at a time.
The Rum Drum was my cocktail entry in the 2012 "Taboo" event crawl in Palm Springs. It was a fun one-off fall event, a precursor to what is now Mod Palm Springs. This very potent potable took first place in the cocktail competition, no doubt by knocking out the judges. Marquesan Drum mug from Trader Vic's, late 2016.
Not a lot of cocktail recipes have "escaped" the Tiki-Ti. The Puka Punch is one of them, found in Beachbum Berry Remixed. It's a well-balanced tiki drink, and the perfect thing to toast to Ray Buhen on a Wednesday night when you can't be at the Tiki (were you at the Tiki, you would of course raise a Ray's Mistake). The Ray's Mistake mug was designed by Thor and produced by Tiki Farm for the Tiki-Ti.
The Rongorongo cocktail from Steven Liles of Smuggler's Cove in San Francisco. Recipe published on the Imbibe site.
A cocktail recipe by Bosko Hrnjak published in Beachbum Berry Remixed. Tiki mug also by Bosko, who started making mugs before anyone in the modern tiki revival. Swizzle from Grider.
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.