Showing posts with label Don the Beachcomber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don the Beachcomber. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Classic Tiki Drink Recipes: The Don the Beachcomber's "Cobras Fang" recipe.

Tiki Cocktails: How to make the old school Don the Beachcomber version of the Cobras Fang Cocktail.
This is a classic, vintage tiki cocktail that you gotta try. A great drink to try at the tiki bar or tiki lounge.

Like many tiki cocktails this one takes a bit of prep, but it is well worth the effort.
Two rums give it a nice kick, but is balanced well by the tropical fruit juices.
If you can't find Fassionola, you can use a any quality fruit punch.

Cobras Fang Recipe:
Ingredients
1/2 oz. Fresh squeezed lime juice
1/2 oz. Falernum (fee brothers, john d. taylor's velvet, etc.) Passion fruit.
1/2 oz. Fresh orange juice
1/4 oz. Fassionola (hard to find, can use fruit punch.)
1/2 oz. Dark Jamaican Rum (appleton Estate, Myers dark rum, etc.)
1/2 oz. Lemon Hart Demerara  151
1 dash each Angostura bitters,
selected herbs (who knows???)
grenadine

Mixing instructions:
Mix all of the ingredients with crushed ice in a cocktail shaker.
Shake until cold.
Serve in a tall tiki glass
Garnish the drink with mint leaves and lime wheel.

Source: "Hawai'i Tropical Drinks and Cuisine"

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Tiki cocktail drink recipes presents the Don the Beachcomber cobras fang recipe. A mixed drink that is a amazing rum recipe mixed with fruit juices.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Classic Tiki Cocktails: Trader Vic’s Aku Aku drink recipe.

Classic Tiki Cocktails: How to make a Trader Vic's Aku Aku Tiki cocktail drink, a popular cocktail at the tiki bars and tiki lounges today.

Trader Vic’s Aku Aku drink recipe.

Not a lot of alcohol as many tiki drinks, but very tasty. The flavor is of pineapple and peach, with a mint overtone, a classic exotic tiki cocktail drink. A refreshing blended frozen cocktail. Similar to Don the Beachcombers  Missionary's Downfall.

Aku Aku means many things, one of which is a spiritual guide.

AKU AKU RECIPE:
Ingredients

• 1 oz White Rum

• 1/2 oz Peach Liqueur

• 1/2 oz Simple Syrup (Sugar Water)

• 2 oz Pineapple Chunks (fresh)

• 10 Mint Leaves (Fresh)

Mixing Directions:
Blend in a cocktail blender for 10 seconds until smooth.
Garnish with Pineapple Chunk and Mint Sprigs.


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Tiki cocktail Drink Recipes Presents: The Trader Vic's Aku Aku recipe using white rum, a great addition to your tiki bar. Summon the tiki gods today with this amazing tiki cocktail.

Classic Tiki Cocktails: Cobras Fang Recipe, Don the Beachcomber Classic.

Classic Tiki Cocktails: How to make the Cobras Fang Cocktail. A Don the Beachcomber classic cocktail recipe for your tiki lounge.

AKA: The Cobra, The Sidewinder.

A Don the Beachcomber cocktail invention. The Cobras Fang Cocktail is a lesser known tiki cocktail, but a classic all the same. Found this in Don the Beachcombers book: Hawaii Tropical Rum Drinks and Cuisine by Don the Beachcomber

The Cobra’s Fang Recipe

ingredients: 
• 151 Demerara Rum
• Falernum
• tropical fruit juices

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Tiki VIDEO: Don the Beachcomber Zombi by Beachbum Berry Part 2 of 2

TIKI VIDEO: Don the Beachcomber Zombie 
Presented by Beachbum Berry.

In this tiki cocktail video, guru Beachbum Berry shows how to make the classic old school zombie just like in the Don the Beachcomber tiki bars.


From Tiki Oasis 7.
Beachbum Berry did a great symposium with drink samples, instruction and tiki drink history. His new book is called "Sippin' Safari"
TAKEN WITH MY DIGITAL CAMERA -sorry bout the quality!

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Friday, July 17, 2009

ClASSIC TIKI COCKTAILS: The "Test Pilot" Recipe. A old school tiki drink.

ClASSIC TIKI COCKTAILS: The "Test Pilot" recipe.
How to make a classic old school tiki drink.

Created by Don the Beachcomber in 1941, the Test Pilot is a great tiki cocktail. It's flavor is great, but a little different tasting compared to other classic tiki cocktails. Most modern Test Pilot recipes you will find are found in Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log. A great book on classic tiki cocktails.





Courtesy of the Grog Log, the Test Pilot recipe:

Test Pilot Recipe:
Ingredients:

• 3/4 ounce light Puerto Rican rum

• 1 1/2 ounces dark Jamaican rum (Myers's Rum)

• 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

• 1/2 ounce Falernum (a sweet syrup, see note)

• 3 teaspoons Cointreaudash Angostura bitters

• 1/8 teaspoon Pernod

Mixing Instructions:Blend with 1 cup crushed ice for 5 seconds, then pour into double old-fashioned glass. Add more crushed ice to fill. Garnish with a wooden oyster fork with maraschino cherry skewered on prongs.

Source: Grog Log by Jeff Berry

Falernum is a sweet bar syrup used in tiki, tropical and Caribbean drinks. It has tastes of almond, ginger and cloves, and lime, and sometimes vanilla or even allspice.

Pernod Ricard a French company that produces alcoholic beverages. Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both anise liqueurs, and often referred to as simply Pernod.





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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Ray's Mistake Tiki Cocktail Recipe.

How to make the "Ray's Mistake" a classic Tiki cocktail drink.

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RAYS MISTAKE RECIPE




The original formula is a closely guarded secret, handed down from father to son.
This is as close as we could come with our research, interviews and personal experiments.

OVERVIEW:
This drink is famous at Tiki-Ti's and since 1968 has been their signature drink.  It is named after the bartender/owner, Ray Buhen, who was one of a handful of Polynesian bartenders who helped kick start the tropical and Polynesian pop craze of the 1930's and 40's.

RECIPES:

From Insiders List with Julie Moran:
A unique taste experience, the Mistake is made with lime juice, botanic liqueurs, passion fruit and "Super Secret Flavor," and floated with dark Coruba rum.

RAY'S MISTAKE RECIPE (LA Version)

• 1 oz Fresh lime juice,
• 1 oz Passion fruit juice
• 1 oz Sweet 'n Sour Mix
• 1 oz Light Rum
• 1 oz Gin,
• 1 oz Pineapple juice
• 1 oz Coconut milk, May OMIT
• 1 oz Guava juice. May OMIT

Directions:
Shake vigorously, garnish with pineapple.
Float with Coruba.

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