Kari & Rob’s Enchanted Tiki Bar

Kari & Rob’s Enchanted Tiki Bar Our back yard bar that’s the culmination of several years of daydreaming brought to reality.

Let’s get the weekend started with Rum Barrels!
07/18/2025

Let’s get the weekend started with Rum Barrels!

The Mai Tai! So near and dear to my heart, yet I feel compelled to try bad Mai Tais. I don’t know why. I mean, in its or...
01/20/2025

The Mai Tai! So near and dear to my heart, yet I feel compelled to try bad Mai Tais. I don’t know why. I mean, in its original form, it’s a simple cocktail of 5 ingredients. But it’s been copied and mutated so many times over the years that the often bear the slightest resemblance to the original.

Tonight, I give you the “Mai Tai” according to the 1979 edition of Playboy’s New Host & Bar Book. At first glance I thought, “actually, that’s not too far off.” until I noticed the measurements. 1/4… teaspoon?!

I give you this wildly unbalanced daiquiri with an identity crisis.

With some corrections, I think I can salvage this train wreck.

Tonight, i give you our spin on the Mele KalikiMai Tai:1 oz lime juice0.5 oz orgeat0.5 oz cranberry-rosemary syrup0.5 oz...
12/02/2024

Tonight, i give you our spin on the Mele Kaliki
Mai Tai:
1 oz lime juice
0.5 oz orgeat
0.5 oz cranberry-rosemary syrup
0.5 oz allspice dram
1 oz Demerara rum
1 oz white rum (i might swap this to Jamaican next)
Shake with crushed ice, strain over crash crushed ice. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

And now The Gravekeeper has moved from redecorating to remodeling!
10/21/2024

And now The Gravekeeper has moved from redecorating to remodeling!

Oh, is it National Mai Tai Day?! Our bartender whipped me up a very respectable Hawaiian Mai Tai. 🍹🤙🏻
08/30/2024

Oh, is it National Mai Tai Day?!

Our bartender whipped me up a very respectable Hawaiian Mai Tai. 🍹🤙🏻

08/29/2024

It’s too late for work! Switching to rum! 🍹🤙🏻

We said goodbye to Bynx, one of our cats, tonight. In his honor I offer you Enchanted Catnip.A riff on the classic Daiqu...
08/26/2024

We said goodbye to Bynx, one of our cats, tonight. In his honor I offer you Enchanted Catnip.

A riff on the classic Daiquiri, replacing the traditional sugar with tamarind syrup.

I decided to forgo the flaming garnish, though.

½ oz fresh lime juice
½ oz tamarind syrup
1½ oz white Puerto Rican rum
1 large black grape
1 orange peel
151-proof Puerto Rican rum

Shake white rum, lime juice and tamarind syrup with ice and strain into a cocktail coupe. Wrap the grape with a strip of orange peel and secure by spearing the peel-wrapped grape with a long toothpick, leaving enough of the pick free for you to hold. Dip this garnish in 151-proof rum and ignite. Drop flaming garnish into drink.

08/25/2024

Outpost update:

A small group of local traders stopped by the other day. After some warm greetings and exchanging pleasantries, they were on their way. The youngest among them took an interest in our old kerosene lanterns, so we sent him home with a couple of old ones to tinker with as a show of friendship and good will.

08/25/2024

Tonight, an experimental riff on the Old Fashioned. I’m naming it the Mortal Sin-namon Bun Old Fashioned in honor of the late Brother Donald Paul, FBSE, who may well have made the world’s best cinnamon buns.

Being a Friar in order of the Franciscan Brothers of St. Elizabeth with a sense of humor, he dubbed his buns Mortal and Venial Sin-namon buns. Mortal had nuts.

And here we are:

2 oz bourbon
1/2 oz cinnamon syrup
3-4 drops vanilla
2 dashed black walnut bitters

Next time I might add an extra drop of vanilla and an extra dash of bitters, but the flavors are there! Really, I’m quite happy with this one!

Let’s get started early with the Three Dots and a Dash. The drink, created by Don the Beachcomber was so named because T...
08/24/2024

Let’s get started early with the Three Dots and a Dash. The drink, created by Don the Beachcomber was so named because Three dots and a dash is Morse Code for V. As in V for “victory” during WW2.

Note the use of spice flavors and blending at high speed, both common in Don the Beachomber cocktails.

½ oz fresh lime juice
½ oz orange juice
½ oz honey mix
1½ oz amber martinique rum
½ oz demerara rum
1 dash Angostura bitters
¼ oz falernum or Falernum #9
¼ oz pimento liqueur or Homemade Pimento Liqueur
6 oz (¾ cup) crushed ice

Blend at high speed for no more than 5 seconds. Pour into specialty glass.
Garnish with 3 cocktail cherries speared to a pineapple stick (the “three dots and a dash”).

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