Loco Gringo Drink of the Day!

It's ok to have a Blue Monday

2 oz. SKYY Infusions Pineapple

.5 oz. Blue Caracao

.5 oz. Fresh Lime Juice

.5 oz. Amaretto

Combine all the ingredients in a blender with ice and mix well.  Pour into a low ball glass and garnish with ice. 

Gin Pahit

Pink Gin is also known as Gin & Bitters and it's quite simply those two ingredients: gin and bitters. This drink was originally created by the Royal Navy to make Angostura bitters, which they used as a medical treatment for their sailors, more palatable. You may also hear the term "Gin Pahit" in many 19th century sailing stories such as those by W. Somerset Maugham. This is the virtually the same drink, only the name has been lost in time. The word "pahit" is Malay for "bitters." What ever you want to call it, it is a fabulous aperitif Martini.

Ingredients:

    •    1 1/2 oz gin

    •    3-4 dashes Angostura bitters

Preparation:

    1.    Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.

    2.    Stir well.

    3.    Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Vodka Mojito

• 4 Parts ABSOLUT VODKA

• 2 Parts Lime Juice

• 2 Parts Simple Syrup

• 1 Part Soda Water

• 6 Pieces Mint Leaf

• 4 Pieces Lime

Stir lime juice and simple syrup in a chilled highball glass. Add mint leaf and lime. Muddle. Fill with crushed ice. Add ABSOLUT Vodka. Stir. Fill with crushed ice. To pup with soda water.

The Original Zombie

Adapted from Jeff Berry from Beachbum Berry’s Sippin’ Safari

Jeff “Beachbum” Berry has spent years uncovering the recipes for original tiki drinks from the ‘30s and ‘40s. The Zombie is a Don the Beachcomber signature cocktail that has been poorly reinterpreted over the years, most often as a bad drink resembling a tropical Long Island iced tea. This recipe dates to about 1934. Berry found it in the 1937 notebook of Beachcomber waiter Dick Santiago, who had marked the recipe “old.”

What to buy: You can use any high-quality commercial cinnamon syrup, or infuse your own.

Falernum is a clove- and lime-infused liqueur and can be purchased at most liquor stores; a popular brand is John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum. If you can’t find falernum, try making your own. CHOW thinks this recipe is a great stand-in.

The Original Zombie recipe was featured as part of our Tiki Cocktails photo gallery.

TIME/SERVINGS

Total Time: 5 mins
Active Time: 5 mins
Makes: 1 drink

INGREDIENTS
3/4 cup crushed ice
1 1/2 ounces aged Jamaican rum, such as Appleton Estate V/X or Extra
1 1/2 ounces gold Puerto Rican rum
1 ounce 151-proof Lemon Hart Demerara rum
3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
2 teaspoons white grapefruit juice 
1 teaspoon Cinnamon Syrup
1 teaspoon Grenadine
1/2 ounce falernum
1/8 teaspoon Pernod
1 dash aromatic bitters, such as angostura
Ice cubes
1 mint sprig, for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Place all ingredients except ice cubes and mint sprig in a blender. Blend on high until frothy but not slushy, no more than 5 seconds.
2. Pour into a tall, narrow glass and add ice cubes to fill the glass. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Thanks to CHOW for sending me this recipe today. Click for more recipes

Margarita Monday - Pineapple Margarita

    •    2 cups lime juice, about 20 limes

    •    2 cups white tequila

    •    2 cups Triple Sec

    •    2 1/2 cups fresh pineapple juice

    •    Fresh pineapple slices, for garnish

Combine the lime juice, tequila, Triple Sec, and pineapple juice. Fill a cocktail shaker 1/2-way with ice and fill 2/3 full with the margarita mixture. Shake for 30 seconds and pour into glasses. Decorate with fresh pineapple slices and serve ice cold.

Caribbean Dream

2 parts orange juice

1 oz rum

1 oz peach schnapps

5 ml grenadine syrup

Combine ingredients in a highball glass. Stir, add ice and serve.

 

Tequilajito - signature cocktail of Hacienda Tres Rios

• 2 1/3 oz. Lime
• 8 Basil leaves
• 3 tsps brown sugar
• 1 1/2 oz. Tequila
• Grapefruit soda, ie Fresca.

In one glass add the basil, line and sugar and muddle. Add ice, pour in the tequila, and top with grapefruit soda.  Garnish with lime and mint leaves.

 

Margarita Monday - Blue Margarita #gotresrios

1 1/2 oz 1800® Tequila

1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur

1 oz lime juice

coarse salt

Rub rim of cocktail glass with lime juice. Dip rim in coarse salt. Shake tequila, blue curacao, and lime juice with ice, strain into the salt-rimmed glass, and serve. 

Cheers to all our twitter amigos who were at Hacienda Tres Rios this weekend. Great to meet you all. 

Margarita Monday - Green Iguana Margarita

• 1/2 oz Midori® melon liqueur
• 1 oz Two Fingers® gold tequila
• 2 oz sweet and sour mix

Blend and pour into a salted glass.

 

Caribbean Iced Tea

• 1 oz. Admiral Nelson's Vanilla Rum
• 1 oz. Arrow Blue Curaco
• 1 oz. Gin
• 1 oz. Margaritaville Gold Tequila
• 1 oz. Vodka 
• Sour Mix

Mix all of the ingredients together and serve over ice. Garnish with an orange. Tastes like a Long Island Ice Tea, but with a Caribbean twist.