Name: Tiki Max
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Navy rum (54.5% alc./vol.); 30 ml Rum - Light white (charcoal-filtered) 1-3 year old; 15 ml Grand Marnier liqueur; 15 ml Apricot (brandy) liqueur; 22.5 ml Orgeat (almond) syrup; 22.5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 45 ml Pineapple juice (fresh pressed); 15 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed); 6 Angostura or other aromatic bitters; 15 ml Woods rum

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Mint sprig & lime wedge

How to make:

SHAKE first nine ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice. FLOAT overproof rum on drink.

1 fl oz	Navy rum (54.5% alc./vol.)
1 fl oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1/2 fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Giffard Abricot du Roussillon liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup
3/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1 1/2 fl oz	Pineapple juice (fresh pressed)
1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
6 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1/2 fl oz	Woods rum
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Grand Marnier liqueur, 70cl

£ 29.45 £ 0.63 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Giffard Abricot du Roussillon liqueur, 70cl

£ 19.95 £ 0.43 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Giffard Orgeat Syrup, 100cl

£ 9.25 £ 0.21 per cocktail, makes 44

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Review:

This drink breaks the golden rule - simple is beautiful. However, it's tasty and packs a punch.

History:

Created in 2008 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

The inspiration for this drink came not from the similarly named discount clothing retailer but the venerable Tiki cocktail itself. Tiki drinks, otherwise known as 'exotics' originated in 1934 when Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt, a Louisiana native who had made some money bootlegging rum during Prohibition, opened a bar called Don's Beachcomber in Hollywood and began serving rum based, fruity cocktails. Soon after, Victor 'Trader Vic' Bergeron transformed his restaurant Hinky Dinks into a similar faux Polynesian style. These founding fathers spawned many Tiki imitators and despite a dip in popularity from the 1970s, happily the noughties saw a revival in the fortunes of Tiki.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Tiki Max contains 360 calories.

Alcohol content:

2.7 standard drinks
18.08% alc./vol. (36.16° proof)
38.3 grams of pure alcohol

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