Improving the Cuba Libre and the Gin & Tonic

These two are the drinks that probably everyone knows - the Cuba Libre and the Gin & Tonic. In the past, there has even been some argument as to whether they are cocktails or not. I would argue that the Gin & Tonic is not - at least not in its simplest form. By contrast, the Cuba Libre is (it contains lime juice in addition to rum and coke). In any case, they are dead simple longdrinks and while they are excellent in principle (I do not want to doubt that), one might wish for a bit more complexity at times. Today, we will consider two recipes that…

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The Zombie Cocktail – The Prototypical Tiki Drink

When thinking about Tiki drinks, there are many that immediately come to mind: the Mai Tai, the Planters' Punch, the Painkiller, and so on and so forth. One of these is the Zombie cocktail, a drink that I like to think of as the "Long Island Iced Tea among all Tiki drinks". Today, we are going to check it out. What the hell is Tiki? Generally speaking, Tiki is a style of fashion that became particularly popular during the 1950s and -60s. It lends itself to every culture found in the South Seas as well as in the Caribbean, from Jamaica to Hawaii and the Easter Islands. However,…

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