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Da Bomb (Tiki) 

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Bomb Cyclone

.5 oz White Rum [Smoky Quartz Distillery]
.5 oz Aged Rum [Diplomatico Reserve]
1 oz Rhum Agricole [Clement V.S.O.P]
1 oz Dark rum [Grand Ten Distilling]
.75 oz Besamim [Sukkah Hill Spirits]
.75 oz Pineapple Juice
.25 oz Lemon juice
.25 oz grenadine

Shake ingredients with ice.  Strain into a tiki mug filled with crushed ice, then top with more crushed ice.  Garnish with dehydrated lemon wheel and pineapple chunk, and other tiki paraphernalia

Normally, when you think of January, you think of playoff football, winter sports, and hearty stews.  Cocktails tend to be more spirit forward sippers, best suited for pensively gazing into fires.  Well, my insta-pals @ntitz and @homebargirl are out to change all that with their #tikithesnowaway campaign.

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Interstellar Hospitality

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Maz Kolada

1 oz Pineapple rum [Plantation Stiggins Fancy]
1/2 oz Aged Rum [Planation 5 year]
1/2 oz White Rum [Smoky Quartz Distillery]
3/4 oz Green Chartreuse
1/2 oz Pineapple Juice
1/2 oz Coconut Cream [Coco Lopez]
1/4 oz Licor 43

Shake with ice, strain into an ice filled rocks glass.  Garnish with lime peel “glasses”.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the latest Star Wars movie dropped last Friday.  And if you read this blog (or follow me on Instagram) you know I’m a huge Star Wars fan.  I haven’t seen The Last Jedi yet, but I did recently rewatch The Force Awakens as a quick refresher for where things left off.  Then I made a drink. Continue reading →

Coffee Toffee Goodness

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House Money

2 oz Dark or Aged Rum* [Plantation]
3/4 oz Benedictine
1/4 oz Orgeat [Fee Bros]
More than a few healthy dashes Coffee-Pecan Bitters (I imagine chocolate bitters would work here too)

Stir ingredients with ice, strain into an ice filled rocks glass

*  The original incarnation used Plantation Original Dark, and was tasty in its own right. Recently I picked up a bottle of their 5 year Aged Rum, and it made itself right at home in this glass. Feel free to use either kind

As I mentioned for the Thoroughly Polite Dustup, I took my first stab at homemade bitters this fall.  I used my apple bitters for that drink.  The other was batch I made was coffee-pecan (shoutout to Brad Thomas Parsons and his Bitters book for the recipes), and I couldn’t wait to get those in a cocktail.  Luckily just after they were glass-ready, my sister and her significant other came to visit.  Being mid-October, we got our fire pit ablaze and needed some drinks complete the fall setting.

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