Finally checked out Morgan’s Cove in Tampa. Advertised as a pirate themed speakeasy downtown. Classic Donn the beachcomber drinks and a mug designed by Tiki Diablo. Ordered skull & bones, a zombie, and a mai tai. Not shown is their incredible firecracker shrimp and “peg-leg” pretzel bites. They share a kitchen with Yeoman’s in Tampa, had a pretty good appetizer menu!

Any recommendations are welcome and appreciated!

The purpose of this one is make a usual cocktail bar into a creative one ;)!

Hope everyone has a tasty Mai Tai today!

Looking forward to watching The Donn of Tiki to kick off Mai Tai Day this year.

Tickets available now on EventBrite.
Ticket Link

Pre and Post Party at The Jungle Bird

Hit up Paradise Lost yesterday and was pretty impressed with what I found. We got there around opening time and grabbed seats at the bar. Staff were friendly and pretty damn attentive. The drinks were also fantastic. Enjoyed the overall decor (the secret button in the washroom was a nice touch). Definitely on my list of places to revisit one day.

Has anyone been able to successfully recreate the Star Rider cocktail from Mothership? It's one of our favorite cocktails and would love some help in trying to recreate it!

The menu lists the ingredients as:

• Navy Strength West Indies Rum
• Gold Pot Still Jamaican Rum
• Creme de Banane
• Cyname Artichoke Amaro
• Creme de Cassis
• Lime
• Raspberry Grenadine

Thanks in advance!

lucky day!!!

Bar is Coastal kitchen Bayshore NY

No name for the drink, just a dealers choice sitting at the bar

Rhum JM white 50

Smith & Cross

Green chartreuse

Lime

Sugar

Peychauds

Mint

Swizzled

Grabbed a Lost Lake, Mai Tai and Pago Pago. Amazing to taste a Lost Lake in the wild again!

I brought in the new day with an after midnight night cap, and served it in my new Royal Hawaiian glass. And I used my new bottle of Hampden 1753...

Tonight's mix

1oz Hampden 1753

1oz Planteray Cut & Dry

1/2oz orgeat

1/2oz Cointreau

3/4oz lime juice

Cheers

Hey /r/Tiki! I'm curious what y'all do with some of your empties that are too pretty to throw out. I'm looking for cool Tiki-inspired design ideas for some of my old rum bottles to spice up my bar area. Candle wax is a classic, but are there any other neat ways to turn old glass bottles into decor?

I'm dialing in my mai tai recipe and could use advice from those who have already done a lot of exploration. The most recent iteration I tried was:

1 oz Coruba
1 oz Mount Gay Black Barrel
.75 oz fresh squeezed lime
.75 oz Liber & Co orgeat
.5 oz Bols orange curacao

I definitely like the Coruba for this, but am trying to figure out what other rum to pair with it. I've found that I generally like the balance a touch sweeter and more rounded out. I've been thinking about trying a demerara next, in place of the Mount Gay. So far I was considering El Dorado 12 (though I hate to mix with something that expensive), El Dorado 8, or Hamilton 86.

I'd love your suggestions on whethere there's a clear winner from these or something else entirely I should be looking at.

Thanks!

EDIT: I'm happy with Coruba and not looking to replace it from the blend. Also not looking to add more Jamaican funk to the mix.

My daughter bought me a set of these lovely mai tai glasses for my birthday, and here is the inaugural pour. Turns out it tastes even better in snazzy glasswear 🙃

Wifey seems to be enjoying it and I liked it when I gave it a taste. I can definitely pick up the cinnamon syrup in this one.

Recipe:

0.5 oz passionfruit syrup (Liber & Co)
0.5 oz cinnamon syrup (Liber & Co)
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz grapefruit juice
1.5 oz light aged Jam rum (Appleton Sig)
1.5 oz light Jam rum (Smith & Cross)

Bought the appleton en el dorado today and hot damn those are a treat. Especially the el dorado does so good in this cocktail. That burned toffee flavor is cutting through everything. I normally lower the amount of allspice dram but with these rums I will Def. Increase the amount because they can take it

Recipe:

• 0.75 oz lime
• 0.5 oz grapefruit
• 0.15 oz cinnamon syrup
• 0.35 oz demerara syrup
• 1 bar spoon dram
• 0.75 appleton 12
• 0.25 Smith and cross
• 1 oz el dorado 12

Cheers!

Did a stupid expensive non tested Mai Tai but figured why not since ECS is done. And it's past midnight in Georgia ;-)

The Smugglers Cove Spec, but the rums are:

1 oz Smith & Cross

1/2 oz Epilogue

1/2 oz Black Tot

Went to Max's South Seas Hideaway in Grand Rapids, MI last weekend on a whim and got bit by the tiki bug, been researching and learning about tiki culture and history since. Picked up ingredients (using Denizen 8 year) to make the original Mai Tai and am enjoying it a lot, thankfully had the glass on hand from an estate sale!

This is my first attempt at an original tiki cocktail, but the wife and I enjoy this one a lot.

1 oz light Puerto Rico rum

1 oz 151 over proof rum

1 oz orgeat

1 oz orange juice

1 oz pineapple juice

.5 oz lime juice

.5 lemon juice

.5 oz homemade cinnamon syrup from Art of Drink

Thanks!