“Smokey, this not Nam, this is tiki. There are rules.”
The Rules of Smuggler’s COVID
You know what they say! Anything worth doing is worth doing at an obsessive level of precision! Therefore, we’ve established some ground rules.
- Ingredients specified in the recipe will not be substituted.
- All recipes will be made using prescribed rum per Martin Cate’s production method classification system (featured in the Smuggler’s Cove book, which you should buy). Where a specific rum is called for, it will be used.
- All ingredients which include a recipe in Smuggler’s Cove (which you should buy) will be house made using the provided recipe.
- Drinks will be served with specified garnishes and in prescribed glassware.
- Wherever possible, ingredients will be sourced locally in Tucson.
Special shoutout to our favorite local independent package stores, Plaza Liquors and Fine Wines and RumRunner, and their amazing staff for carrying some of the more oddball ingredients and taking the pandemic in stride.
About the Electric Drink Mixer…
Martin Cate would tell us that we ought to be using an electric drink mixer. And we want to. We really do. However, as we would rather spend our money on ingredients, we do not have one at the outset of this project. We have identified one for our borrowing delight; however, it will not be in our possession until after the holidays. Where a recipe calls for flash blending with an electric mixer, we will make it in a shaker instead and will make a point to revisit once the mixer is added to our ever-growing arsenal of equipment.
