Aug 5-Mai Tai

This cocktail is known as the sexy grand daddy of every tiki drink. Created by Vic Bergeron also known as Trader Vic, this cocktail is probably the most popular cocktail from the early tiki canon of the 1930’s post prohibition. This time was known as a problematic time for tiki cocktails since most of them were just pure juice blends with a lot of rum in them. They were incredibly popular due to the ease of drinking and wasted feeling people got, but looking back there isn’t much going on in a lot of these. Luckily this era inspired the likes of modern tiki historians like Martin Cate of Smuggler’s Cove, Garrett Richard of Sunken Harbour Club and evenm Jeff ‘Beachbum’ Berry of Latitude 29.

I mention those last 3 because it is their work that has reinvented tiki for the better. Simplifying the recipes as well as adding complexity. I could even go into even more about their work but I will leave you at this, it’s as Martin Cate references in his book Smuggler’s Cove, “the older tiki era is a time that should be studied in order for us to break what it was.” Once you do that, you can make some brilliant cocktails with the modern tiki formula.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jdFNmspyO4LwtUCSKavdS4l954_54q0pQ50cRHVlJK4/edit?tab=t.0