MxMo LXIV: TIKI!—Rongorongo

February is Tiki Month, and for those of you who’ve been marooned without the joys of civilization, Doug Winship of the Pegu Blog is serving up all things Tiki, including this month’s Mixology Monday. His theme, of course, is Tiki! so grab half the bottles in the bar and make extra ice—this is gonna be a MxMo to remember. ...Or at least to the extent that it’s possible to remember anything after sucking down all those big tropical drinks. Please join me in a monumental Fogged In mahalo to Doug for hosting.



Rongorongo

• 2 oz gold Puerto Rican rum (Ron del Barrilito)
• 1 oz Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
• 1 oz Grand Marnier
• 1/4 oz Velvet Falernum
• 1/4 oz St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram
• 1 oz pineapple juice
• 1 oz lime juice

Shake with ice cubes and strain into a Tiki mug filled with crushed ice.
SOURCE: ROWEN, FOGGED IN LOUNGE

With notes of molasses, orange peel and spices twinkling softly like little colored lights, it’s sorta like Christmas all over again in an Easter Island mug. My mugs are 12 ounces, and I could fill them about 3/4 with crushed ice without being left with a dividend.

Orange ’n’ Stormy

The signature highball of Gosling’s Black Seal and possibly of Gothic novelists as well, the Dark ’n’ Stormy is amenable to the sorts of additions that generally go with rum. Black Seal Rum in particular has a certain affinity for orange, as is demonstrated in this orange bitters variation I had a while ago at Annabelle’s Bar & Bistro here in town, a reliable refuge of house-made cherries and such when the downtown shopping morons drive you to seek the waters of Lethe. Annabelle’s did it with Regans’ No. 6, which makes a tasty drink, though I used Angostura Orange this time.



Orange ’n’ Stormy

• 2 oz Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
• ginger beer
• 2 dashes orange bitters

Build over ice and stir gently. Orange wheel.
SOURCE: ADAPTED FROM ANNABELLE’S BAR & BISTRO