One of the cocktails that became a “best seller” on the Tahiti menu was the Jamaican Spiced Swizzle. Over the years, I have continued working on this cocktail, creating new versions in order to improve…
Date Archives May 2020
Basic Homemade Ingredients for Tiki Drinks
During the 6 years of life that this blog has, I have been publishing various recipes, including those that I consider to be the basic ingredients for making tiki drinks. I’m talking about homemade ingredients…
Volcán Tahitiano
On the menu that I made when I was working at Tahiti cocktail bar in Barcelona, we had a version of the Volcano Bowl that worked very well and had a quite particular ingredient for…
Bastard’s Life
Reading Minimalist Tiki, the book of my friend Matt Pietrek, I found a recipe from Daniel “Doc” Parks that caught my eye, the cocktail was called Banana Life. As I continued to immerse myself in…
Homemade Pimento Dram
Another particular ingredient used in tiki cocktails is a spicy liqueur called Pimento Dram, which is also known as Pimento Liqueur or Allspice Dram. It is a Jamaican pepper liqueur with a rum base. Pimento…
Homemade Orgeat
Orgeat is an almond syrup of French origin widely used in cocktails by Trader Vic. The truth is that I have been working this ingredient on my cocktails for years, even before commercial versions were…