A cleaner, less syrupy white negroni

We’ve been looking at lighting for our upcoming renovation…

Tropical chartreuse

Angostura is a great base spirit!

chocolate and chili seem like a natural combination

Homemade hazelnut orgeat

Combining many of our favorite components into one drink

A jungle bird riff… with Rum Fire and suze.

Finally, we’ve made a white negroni!

An old favorite we haven’t had in a while

We wanted to use more banana. We made Banana Hammocks

Banana pepper, but that’s a combination, not just a banana pepper.

We’d been threatening to make this drink for a while, because it looked like a lopsided & unbalanced mess of too many strong flavors, but it was surprisingly how much we liked it.

Dueling spies

May the force be with you.

Continuing with the suze-pineapple-tequila.

Pretty much the exact drink we were looking for

We made up some drinks to celebrate(?) the boat getting stuck in the Suez canal.

Rum Fire and… banana?

We decided to continue our pineapple trend by picking the first drink with pineapple rum that looked good.

we went with an old favorite, but did it wrong. No picture until we mix it right.

We picked up a bottle of Plantation Pineapple. It’s very good, though the drink isn’t quite right.

Riffing on yesterday’s drink

We have a bottle of Rum Fire, and we haven’t used it in a while!

Day Trippin', now with Batavia arrack

We saw a Jungle Bird riff with suze, and tweaked it a bit to our tastes

We wanted something with suze and so went with a (modified) version of a drink from Tiki

A cocktail with no clear target audience? It’s not surprising that Haus Alpenz removed it from the back of the bottle.

Something sweet and with Suze, as a rebellion against the Jungle Birds from last night.

Ryan wanted to revisit Campari, so we tried two versions of the Jungle Bird.

I wanted another Isla de Piña and Rory wanted something a bit more challenging. This works for us both!

There kept being drinks calling for Suze, so we finally gave in and picked up a bottle.

A more balanced instance of tiki + byrrh?

We picked this because we had green tea syrup, mostly. No picture today…

Two Chatreuse Swizzles, but one substituting in genepy for the chartreuse.

Another sharp veer away from Tiki / sweet and tropical to a riff on a pre-prohibition drink.

Spoiler: We both didn’t like it, though for unrelated reasons. We were certain that tiki and byrrh were going to go together. They didn’t. At last not here.

When deciding on tonight’s drink, we meant to do something less challenging than many of the batavia arrack drinks, “maybe using the pineapple liqueur since we’re enjoying the banana so much?”. Naturally, that means we found another drink with batavia arrack in it.

To complete this mission, the spy must contact the double agent by using the code word.

More Batavia Arrack! It’s prickly again! The arrack fits with the lemon the same way it fit with the Ancho Reyes yesterday.

A tiki drink without any rum! Instead, Batavia Arrack and Ancho Reyes.

We had a bunch of Thai basil left over from dinner, so this seemed like an obvious choice. We made it two ways - once with Plantation 3 Star, and once with Uruapan Charanda Blanco.

This was one of the first drinks we were able to make out of Mustipher’s Tiki. The funkiness of the Uruapan Charanda and the Rum Fire gave it a very pungent nose but overall it came together extremely well.