Mystery Gimlet
Garret Richard's gin-based tiki drink is blended in a Hamilton Beach stand-up drink mixture, which better aerates the cocktail.
- story: Lizzie Munro
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Garret Richard's gin-based tiki drink is blended in a Hamilton Beach stand-up drink mixture, which better aerates the cocktail.
An absinthe-spiked take on the classic.
With coconut cream, pineapple and orange juice and a Virgin Islands birthplace sometime in the 1970s, this rum-based cocktail is a tropical drink to the core.
New Orleans bartender Kirk Estopinal's tikified take on the Sherry Cobbler.
Cream, cane syrup and Frangelico create a decadent backdrop for blue Curaçao and overproof rum in this throwback drink.
Created in Trinidad, this Demerara rum-based, bitters-topped drink gets its name from a famous cricket field in the country’s capital, Port of Spain.
The credit for this iconic 1930s drink—whose name is a nod to the Tahitian, “Maita’i,” which means “good”—is usually given to venerable Los Angeles tiki bar Trader Vic’s.
Coconut-washed Campari gives this riff a richer, rounder texture.