To make a Captain’s Grog, combine all ingredients, except mint, with 12 ounces crushed ice into a mixing tin. Whip shake briefly and pour into a chilled tiki mug or double old- fashioned glass. Top with more crushed ice. Garnish with mint, umbrella, and reusable straw.

Captain’s Grog

Spirit Rum

Cocktail family Tropical

Flavors Boozy · Fresh · Fruity · Herbal

Makes

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Ingredients

• 3/4 oz Gosling Black Rum
• 3/4 oz Plantation 3-Stars White Rum
• 3/4 oz Chairman’s Reserve Forgotten Cask
• 1/2 oz Orange Curaçao
• 1/2 oz Velvet Falernum
• 1/2 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
• 1/2 oz Fresh Squeezed Grapefruit Juice
• 1/2 oz Maple Syrup or Honey Syrup
• 3 drops Vanilla Extract
• 3 drops Almond Extract
• 1 oz Club Soda

Method

• To make Captain’s Grog, combine all ingredients, except mint, with 12 ounces crushed ice into a mixing tin.
• Whip shake briefly and pour into a chilled tiki mug or double old-fashioned glass.
• Top with more crushed ice.
• Garnish with mint, umbrella, and reusable straw.

Equipment

• Shaker

Glass

Tiki Mug

Garnish

Mint Sprig

Here’s an herbal Mai Tai on steroids. This tiki drink has so many things going on that add up to more than the sum of its parts.

Bikini Atoll

Spirit Rum

Cocktail family Tropical

Flavors Herbal · Tart

Makes

1x2x3x

Ingredients

• 1 oz Smith & Cross Jamaican Rum
• 1/2 oz Green Chartreuse
• 1/2 oz John D. Taylor Velvet Falernum
• 1/2 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Orange Curaçao
• 1/2 oz Orgeat
• 1 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice

Method

• Add all ingredients to shaker.
• Add ice, shake about 15 seconds.
• Double-strain over fresh ice in a double old-fashioned glass.
• Garnish with slapped mint sprig.

Equipment

• Citrus Press
• Shaker
• Hawthorne Strainer
• Fine Strainer

Glass

Rocks

Garnish

Mint Sprig

For this drink from the Death & Company bars, I used one of my absolute favorite rums, St. Lucia’s Chairman’s Reserve Forgotten Casks aged rum. It’s a great sipper and mixer.

Between the Sheets

Spirit Rum

Cocktail family Sour

Flavors Boozy · Tart

Makes

1x2x3x

Ingredients

• 1 oz Chairman’s Reserve Forgotten Casks
• 1 oz Pierre Ferrand 1840 Cognac
• 3/4 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Orange Curaçao
• 3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
• 1 tsp Demerara Gomme Syrup

Method

• Combine all ingredients in shaker.
• Add ice to tin and shake for 15 seconds until well diluted.
• Double-strain into a chilled coupe glass.
• Carefully hold peel over drink, ignite lighter and express oils through flame.
• Garnish.

Equipment

• Peeler or Knife
• Citrus Press
• Shaker
• Hawthorne Strainer
• Fine Strainer
• Lighter

Glass

Coupe

Garnish

Orange Twist

This tasty tiki drink comes from Latitude 29, a popular tiki joint in New Orleans. It starts with a mix of rums, adds spice and vanilla from the Spanish Licor 43 and is rounded out with three different juices.

Beachbum’s Own

Spirit Rum

Cocktail family Tropical

Flavors Fresh · Fruity

Makes

1x2x3x

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz Plantation 3-Stars White Rum
• 1 1/4 oz Lemon Hart 151 Overproof Dark Rum
• 3/4 oz Licor 43
• 3/4 oz Passion Fruit Juice
• 3/4 oz Pineapple Juice
• 3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice

Method

• Combine all the ingredients in a shaker with ice.
• Shake until chilled.
• Strain over fresh ice in a tiki mug or tall glass.

Equipment

• Citrus Press
• Shaker
• Hawthorne Strainer

Glass

Tiki Mug

Garnish