Author: Craig

Well, now that Tiki Kon V is all done and wildly successful, Here are the Official Drinks for release into the wild:

Dead Reckoning by Martin Cate of Forbidden Island

2 oz Cockspur 12 year
½ oz Navan Vanilla Liqueur
½ oz pure maple syrup
½ oz tawny port
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz pineapple juice
dash angostura bitters

Shake and strain into a hiball glass over fresh ice and top with 1 oz soda water. Garnish with pineapple wedge, mint sprig, and lemon spiral.

Dark Magic by Craig Hermann

½ oz coffee syrup
½ oz Licor 43
½ oz passion fruit syrup
¾ oz fresh lime juice
1 oz Appleton V/X
1 oz Coruba
dash Herbsaint

Add all and 8oz of ice into blender. Blend by 5 one second pulses. Pour into double rocks glass. Garnish with maraschino cherry and lime wheel. With compliments to Jeff “beachbum’ Berry and The Mai-Kai’s Black Magic.

Happy Hoti by Blair Reynolds

2 oz Pyrat XO Reserve
¾ oz fresh lemon juice
½ oz falernum
½ oz rock candy syrup
dash Fee Bros. bitters

Shake with crushed ice. Serve in small tiki mug filled with ice. Garnish with mint, cherry.

Sandy Warner by Heather Gregg

1½ oz Cockspur
1½ oz sweet vermouth
½ oz orange curaçao
dash Fee Bros. orange bitters

Shake with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Fighting Gamecock by Craig Hermann

2 oz Cockspur
½ oz fresh lemon juice
½ oz Fee Bros. falernum
dash Fee Bros. orange bitters
dash Herbsaint

Stir with ice in mixing glass. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with orange spiral.

Luaahi by Craig Hermann

1 oz Pyrat Blanco
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz pineapple juice
¾ oz maraschino liqueur
¾ oz Velvet Falernum
dash Fee Bros. bitters
dash Herbsaint

Blend with 8 oz ice by 5 one second pulses. Pour into TIKI KON 2007 signature Luaahi mug. Garnish with pineapple wedge, maraschino cherry and cocktail umbrella.

Captain Reynoles’ Galley is finished and signed off on. He and Sara did an absolutely fantastic job completing the decoration, bar work, and lighting. We stocked it up with glasses and mixed cocktails on Saturday. We have six recipes now.

As they stand, the current TIKI KON Drinks are:

• Dead Reckoning by Martin Cate, proprietor of Alameda’s Forbidden Island.
• Pyrat’s Port Light by Yours Truly.
• Sandy Warner by Tikimama.
• Happy Hoti by Blair “The Captain” Reynolds.
• The Fighting Gamecock by Yours Truly.
• Dark Magic by Yours Truly.

We plan to gather some of our home-made libations, feature them during TIKI KON, then release them into the wild for others to make, enjoy, or improve. Call it “Open source mixology.” Keep in mind at least one of these recipes was devised by a professional mixologist. That’s why I listed it first.