Beach Life Tiki Bar

and another updated recipe this year.. decided my tiki-rita didnt need the simple syrup. also renamed it back to Daiquirita

3/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz Velvet Falernum
1/4 oz grenadine
1 oz Goslings Black Seal Rum
1 oz Tres Agave Reposado tequila

It's been a long time but thought I'd post my latest drink just invented last week. It's the tropical version of a long island iced tea.

Paradise island tea:
Rum .5
Tequila .5
Gin .5
Vodka .5
Pineapple juice 1.5
Grenadine .5
Velvet falernum .5

this is a great book if you havent read it. Written by the owners of Smuggler's Cove in San Francisco, it's an interesting history of that tiki bar, tiki drinks and tiki culture. Very engrossing!

Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-...