What a week! Back from the Revision3 party in San Francisco – which was two days AFTER I returned from a trip back east. With all the flying and looking out of airplane windows, I’ve been seeing a lot of blue – which had me jonesing for a blue cocktail.

So here’s one from Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log that is a wonderful sky blue and mighty tasty.

The Blue Reef

1 1/2 ounces of fresh lime juice
1 1/2 ounces of Blue Curacao
1/2 ounce of Galliano
2 ounces of light rum

Shake with ice, serve in a “medium snifter filled with crushed ice” (that’s what the book says). Or that cheap Ikea glass in your cupboard. Hey, whatever works!

My last post was blaming poor Doctor Tiki for coming up with a couple of misguided shooters. Well, this time he gets some praise instead – Doctor Tiki is the brain behind the London Fogcutter.

See, the Doctor (like all of us on Tiki Bar TV) enjoy a nice glass of the Champers. I say we ditch the stigma of Champagne being the “special fancy” drink that never gets consumed – break that fucker out of the cabinet and have it because it’s Tuesday! Crack open a bottle of the bubbly because you finished another week at work without getting fired!

Drink it anytime! Drink it in excess! Much like I did, during this one wedding? The bartenders just kept handing me bottles. I didn’t even bother with a glass. By the end of the night (and after some six bottles) I must admit that Johnny Johnny was a little…. ruffled.

AAANYHOW,there’s loads of great brands of Champs from OUTSIDE of France (technically it’s not “champagne”, but who gives a rats ass – I’m not about to call every bottle bubbly “sparking wine beverage”, because that sounds silly). Try a few of the brands local to you and you might be pleasantly surprised.

ANYHOW – We at Tiki Bar like champers. THE PROBLEM IS, it’s not all that efficient. You can’t really “blast” through it like your standard cocktail. It took six bottles to get my shirt untucked. Who has that much time?

So the good doctor “augmented” the champers with a double shot of Gin, and shaved the edge off the drink with a shot of lime juice. it’s champage for those of you who have somewhere to go and not much time to get there.
Brilliant.

The London Fogcutter

2 ounces of Gin
1 ounce of fresh lime juice
6 ounces of Champagne or “Champagne substitute”

Serve over ice, because those champagne flutes are for beret wearing noodle-norks in black turtlenecks ogling abstract prints at tiny art shows. Mug me, baby.

Tip tip horrah,

JJ.

Ok. First, I’m going to come right out in the open and get this over with.

I DID NOT MAKE THESE DRINKS.

Stop it with the mail. Seriously. Point the blame toward the guy with the white lab coat. HE DID IT. I wasn’t around when we shot this episode, so the good Doctor just started randomly pulling bottles out of whatever shelf he found himself around and created these… things. Grenadine and CHAMBORD? Good grief.

And the measurements? They don’t add up to a shot, or even two. I guess they just added some sort of “units” in a shaker?

For posterity, I’ll post these recipes here, but don’t come crying to me if you wake up in the morning with a sugar loaded hangover and no memory of the previous evening. Please see the man in the WHITE LAB COAT. Just down the hall, first door on your left.

The Red Orchid

1 “unit” of dark rum
1 “unit” of Chambord
dash of grenadine
dash of cranberry juice

The Banana Slam

1 “unit” of gold rum
1 “unit” of banana liquer
1/2 a “unit” of orange juice
1/4 a “unit” of sour mix

Get yourself one of these, round up a friend, and get to work. Please, by all means, feel free to modify the above recipes!

Cheers,
JJ.