Bluer than the bluest Caribbean day!
Like art and pornography, you know a tropical-style drink when you see it. Also known as “tiki” or “exotic” drinks, these mixtures are designed to evoke some kind of South Pacific / Caribbean fantasyland.
Tropical-style drinks are mostly single-serving punch-style drinks featuring a base spirit, fruit juice and syrups or liqueurs, often deployed in various combinations. Unlike sours, these drinks are typically served with an abundance of ice—sometimes as cubes, sometimes crushed and with everything swizzled together, and sometimes everything is tossed in a blender and the bartender just lets ‘er rip. Blurring the boundaries with Punch, some tropical-style drinks are prepared in a larger format, for sharing in a communal bowl.
The simplest tropical-style drinks are relatives of the Daiquiri with one foot in the Sour category—think Planter’s Punch—while the more exotic can be amazingly complex, such as with the legendary Zombie. And while rum accounts for the base ingredient in a vast number of tropical-style drinks, there are some excellent drinks of this style made with tequila, bourbon or gin, such as the Singapore Sling.
Description by Paul Clarke, Serious Eats
Tikis & Tropicals
Rainbow Paradise
The RAINBOW PARADISE cocktail seeks to incorporate the various colours of the rainbow flag which reflects both the immense diversity and the unity of the LGBTQ community.