Classic Tiki Cocktail Drinks: The "Jet Pilot" cocktail recipe using 3 types of rum!

Classic Tiki Cocktail Drinks: How to make the "Jet Pilot" cocktail for your tiki lounge.

This is a cousin of the famous "Test Pilot" tiki cocktail.
The origins of the "jet pilot' go back to around 1950, where the drink was invented at the Luau Restaurant. This drink really symbolizes many tiki drinks, it's got three rums and exotic fruit juices. It usually has a limit two or one in the tiki bar drink menus. This drink, as with many classic tiki cocktails, takes a bit of prep, but the rewards are well worth the effort. This is one of those vintage tiki cocktails that you just have to try, so give it a go! This one is potent, it contains three types of rum.  The Cinnamon syrup and bitters combine to give it a interesting edge.  The anise liqueur also helps to give the drink some complexity. It is amazing how all the ingredients in this drink blend so well together. If you like rum and want a great rum recipe, you have to give the Jet Pilot a go. It's a great addition to your tiki bar.

Cinnamon Syrup: We will cover how to make your own cinnamon syrup in a future article on this site.

You can also use absinthe instead of Pernod, which is what we did. Also if you do not have any cinnamon syrup you can use the powered spice if you have to, but it is not preferred.

Jet Pilot Recipe: 

Ingredients:
• 1 oz Jamaican rum (Appleton, Wray and Nephew, etc.)
• 3/4 oz gold Puerto Rican rum (Ron Llave Supremo, Bacardi Gold, etc.)
• 3/4 oz 151-proof demerara rum (Lemon Hart)
• 1/2 oz grapefruit juice
• 1/2 oz Fresh lime juice
• 1/2 oz cinnamon syrup (Torani, Monin, etc)
• dash of Angostura bitters
• 6 dashes Pernod or Herbsaint or Absinthe
• 4 oz crushed ice
• cherry for garnish

Mixing Instructions:
Pour all of the liquid ingredients into a cocktail blender.
Add the ice to the blender.
Blend for about 10-15 seconds.
Pour into a hurricane, margarita glass or favorite tiki mug.
Garnish the cocktail with a cherry which is sometimes caramelized, or small toy plane.

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Tiki drink recipes presents the "Jet Pilot" cocktail recipe. Learn about a great tropical rum mixed drink. Brought to you by professional mixologist within the tiki culture. A great cocktail to drink while in the tiki hut. A mixed drink that is a great rum recipe. A tiki drink similar to the test pilot mixed drink.

Tiki cocktail drinks: Death in the South Pacific Recipe.

Tiki Drink Recipes: How to make the Death in the South Pacific cocktail with recipe and information.
This Tiki Cocktail won the 2010 Tales of the Cocktail Tiki Punch-up competition.

This is a complex and exotic tiki drink for your tiki bar. It is rather complex to make, but the effort is worth it. The Death in the South Pacific has won a few Tiki drink contests, which demonstrates the caliber of this tiki cocktail. A must try drink for any tiki cocktail adventurer. Death in the South Pacific was invented by Washington bartender Evan Martin. Here is what Evan has to say about the name; “The drink’s name is a play on Love in the South Pacific and Death in the Afternoon."

Here is what tiki expert Jeff Berry had to say; “This drink hits all the contest requirements on the nose: It creatively mixes multiple rums, sweeteners, and citrus to “tikify” the Planter’s Punch template; it has a full-bodied, layered, but not overcomplicated flavor; and its garnish shows theatrical flair, cleverly referencing the drink name.” This drink is a favorite to many.

This tiki cocktail takes a bit of prep, but is well worth it.



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Death in the South Pacific Recipe:
Ingredients.
0.75 oz. Appleton Estate Extra 12 Year Old Rum
0.75 oz. Rhum Clement VSOP Rum
0.5 oz. Grand Marnier
0.33 oz. Trader Tiki Orgeat Syrup
0.33 oz. Fee Brothers Falernum
3 dashes Absinthe (Lucid Absinthe, Le Tourment Vert, Pernod, Kubler, etc.)
0.5 oz. Fresh lime juice
0.5 oz. Fresh lemon juice
0.5 oz. Fee Brothers Grenadine
0.5 oz. Cruzan Blackstrap Rum

Mixing Instructions: Mix all of the ingredients except for the grenadine and Cruzan Blackstrap Rum in a mixing glass with crushed ice. Swizzle the drink until cold and mixed. Pour in the grenadine. Overfill the glass with crushed ice and then pour in the Cruzan Blackstrap rum.

To Garnish: Take a bamboo skewer cherry through at the very top followed pineapple leaf and then cut off skin from 1 large orange slice and then cut the strips in half. Insert the ends through the skewer having them hang on opposite sides of each other. Then insert the straw through the loop in the bamboo skewer.

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EARTH DAY SPECIAL: Tiki Terra Ferma, Earth Day Rum Drink

EARTH DAY SPECIAL: Tiki Terra Ferma.

Earth Day Rum Drink!!!!

Show them your thinking green.

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OVERVIEW
Tiki Terra Ferma is a cool, earthly, fruity and GREEN.
A nice and complex tasting tiki rum drink.
A perfect tiki drink to celebrate the green planet, tiki style.


ORIGINS
Invent today by tiki shamans, JUST FOR YOU!


RECIPE

• 2 oz light rum

• 1 oz absinthe

• 1 oz melon liquor

• 1 oz fresh lemon juice

• 1 oz sugar or simple syrup

• Garnish with mint, cinnamon and green melon balls

• Ice to taste.

Cocktail Mixing Instructions
Serve in a tall clear glass to let the green be seen.

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