From the KON-TIKI it's a Chi Chi with rum!

[@makeanddrink]

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[@pking1970]

"I'm okay with not having Smith & Cross in every goddamn cocktail!" Preach it! Agreed!

[@austinmead5754]

Right there with you!

[@thesportswarehouse8853]

S&C is great but yeah agreed

[@swinginsteel8519]

Yeah I needed to hear that and appreciate balanced cocktails, and resist the hedonic impulse to raise the funk of rums and the terroir of rhum agricole.

[@MarkMaynard13]

Z biotics does work, glad they are sponsoring you. But I think I found the upper limit of their effectiveness at the rum show. 43 samples and a cocktail from Trailer Happiness. The next morning was not full of fun.

[@winkingchef]

Was just at Kon-TIki last night! SR-188 is great and I love their Kon-Tiki Grog! If you have even the slightest interest in rums, they are happy to chat for a while about it Killer burger too!

[@WhoKnowsNose]

LOVE the Kon-Tiki! It's one of the better tiki spots in Cali, imo. I just wish the city of Oakland would get it's sh*t together!

[@jurispurins8065]

Not skipping your Sponsor to keep things looking good

[@HyperspaceCowboy]

The guy is just getting into rum 😂😂😂 Love it :-)

[@jarrod-smith]

Love that you did a lower-sugar UHT cream of coconut! This is more or less how I’ve been making mine for the past year or so. It’s got delicious fresh coconut flavor and you can be generous with it, without making a drink cloyingly sweet. I’ll be making this recipe soon. Have been sitting in the liqueur for quite some time. Not even sure why I got it - guess it was for this. 😛

[@davidstewart3868]

Looks delicious, I’ll have to give it a try.

[@million_unalived_CEOs]

I know El Dorado 12 gets most of the love online (it's good, I like mixing it, though it's a little much on its own for me), but the younger El Dorados are _really_ pleasant and drinkable without being flat or boring. the butterscotchy-ness of the 3 seems like it would play very nicely with the nutty richness of some of the other ingredients here.

[@logicalparadox2897]

I'm also okay with not having Smith & Cross in every single cocktail.... Sometimes you need to break out the Dr. Bird, or the Wray & Nephew. ... Oh, not what you meant? Oh! A light rum! Gotcha! ... Like Rum Fire 😊

[@robertpettigrew9042]

You are speaking my language!

[@robertpettigrew9042]

You are speaking my language!

[@ultimatemaitai]

One of our favorites. It’s been on the menu at Kon-Tiki since day one. One of only four drinks that have been on every menu revision.

[@Quiet1-y9x]

Love your content.

[@rossgibson4653]

I love the Kon-Tiki! Awesome new menu. They were recently broken into so a good time to support them.

[@WhoKnowsNose]

That's got to be like the 3rd time in the last two years at least, based on what the bartender told me last time I visited

[@lawrencestafford3943]

I take the Smith and Cross jab personally 😂

[@mmaurice100]

Would love to see an experiment where you replace the ice with appropriate water and run it in that ninja slushy machine

[@spencergreer526]

8:32 😂

[@jeffreykelley6909]

Have you posted the What the Tuck video yet? I don’t see it listed. Keep up the great work.

[@makeanddrink]

Yes but its title is something else. Has the list of ingredients on the thumbnail

[@sergisamongas]

Interesting. El Dorado 3 is my favorite for daiquiri, but I will try it here, except that I have a banana liquor instead of macadamia.

[@fringe_events7008]

Can i substitute the coconut cream and simple syrup with cream of coconut? Or will the sweetness be too great?

[@therumrevival]

Well that's the last time I let you borrow anything.

[@robmichaels4728]

Congrats on starting your journey into rum. Fancy a KZbin channel?

[@ybloc12]

Please try to do the drink Wet Woody from Gar Woods Grill & Pier!

[@markavery2991]

Hey Derek! Just a quick question… when you say 8 ounces of ice are you weighing it or are you just using a 1 cup scooper and dumping that in? I weighed mine out in a Pyrex and 8 ounces of ice measured up much higher than the 8oz marker for fluid ounces for obvious reasons. But I’m just curious, thanks man! PS your camera work is the best on KZbin among cocktail content creators.

[@makeanddrink]

Thanks! 8 oz would be by volume, so just 1 cup. I’d say anytime I use oz it would always be volume and not weight. There are times ice is weighed like the TS book recipes, but that’s in grams.

[@markavery2991]

@@makeanddrinkright thanks makes sense. I remember in the Ultimate Pina Colada video you specifically mentioned that you weighed it out and it was in grams. Thanks for the clarification. And that Pina Colada came out fantastic. This Aroy-D was a great find I couldn’t believe how much more I liked it than the Trader joes canned version I was buying previously. Appreciate your videos man I try to spread them to friends of mine you’re killin it. You got me hooked on Tiki last summer during your mai tai journey. 🤙🏼

[@JasonPtt]

Any idea if this would be any good with an amaretto instead of the macadamia nut liqueur?

[@million_unalived_CEOs]

it might be different, but I highly doubt it would be bad.

[@curtisbannerman2934]

Could I use macadamia nut syrup instead of macadamia nut liquor?

[@rignanroach1775]

Have you done a Jamaican rum funk forward video? All I see referenced is Dr Bird, and it's not widely available. Plus if I am to order stuff online, why not know a lot of names?

[@brentdnowicki]

There's too many cocktails to just drink Smith & Cross. I made a double Daiquiri with El Dorado 3 year this evening, very good. I like the looks of this cocktail, though I'll probably shake it with pebble.

[@jeffreykelley6909]

Could you acid adjust the pineapple juice to give it that little bit of tartness you were talking about?

[@makeanddrink]

Yes you could

[@DanielSClouser]

What does Zbiotics turn the acetaldehyde into? Vinegar?

[@brianherman503]

Benzine 💥

[@ashleytaylor383]

Great video! Can anyone recommend a good macadamia nut liqueur? We can’t get Trader Vic’s in the UK.

[@omgitsjulian]

FYI Vitamix has a 'Bullet' attachment - I pretty much use this exclusively for cocktails. - it's worth it.

[@makeanddrink]

Pretty sure they don’t make an attachment for the new Costco blenders they sell, or at least that’s what I was told.

[@omgitsjulian]

@@makeanddrink Hum you're mostlikely right. I do have a 2 year old VM.

[@ericepperson8409]

I just looked up the price on the Vitamix Personal Cup Adapter as they call it - $150! You can buy a nutri bullet for less than that. Heck Costco had a Blend Jet 2 pack for half that price. With the Blend Jet you have to be careful on the size of frozen fruit chunks you use, but their plenty enough powerful for nugget ice, syrups, and liquid purees. I had 2 of them going earlier this summer making drinks for guests.

[@lokmtb8503]

@@ericepperson8409 yeah, but the nutribullet are extremely weak. I have one and I really only use it for protein shakes. I guess it really comes down to personal preference. Do you want to blend a kinda chunky ice cocktail and save money? Or do you want a perfectly smooth cocktail and spend a bit more? If you have a vitamix already you probably want a perfectly smooth blended cocktail otherwise you wouldn't have spend $500 on a blender. So then you buy the overpriced attachment.

[@omgitsjulian]

@@ericepperson8409 JDF recommends 2 “ standard cubes” per cocktail for dilution. So I think you can get away with most anything here… well minus this blended drink I suppose.

[@Visaliaipa]

Looks good…. Could you do a Flor de Cana white rum in place of the El Dorado? I hate having to buy another white rum. Well, my wife hates me having to buy another rum, me not so much lol

[@ultimatemaitai]

Suspect that would be okay. What other white rums do you have?

[@Visaliaipa]

@@ultimatemaitai As far as white rums, not many. Flor de Cana, Sailor Jerry’s, Bacardi. I have many more dark and aged rums than white rums.

[@sergisamongas]

Flor de Cana tastes simpler, but other ingredients will hide that.

[@lokmtb8503]

@@Visaliaipa give away or drink the Bacardi and Sailor Jerry. Then you can get two more white rums to fill the gap. You can't go wrong with Hamilton white stache. If you want something a little more interesting get Probitas.

[@million_unalived_CEOs]

yeah, FDC has a pretty neutral aroma, while ED3 has a good bit of caramel/butterscotch. you might be able to tell them apart side by side, but there's no way it'd be bad or lacking in flavor with FDC. (ED3 is worth grabbing though, it's usually pretty cheap too, at least where I live)

[@stephane.foisy.186]

Funny many vodka drinks I swap with light white rum, add little something something. Will be trying this one for sure!

[@ryanhayden3465]

Sub in some frozen pineapples n xantham?

[@lokmtb8503]

It's like a Chi Chi, but with rum.... You mean a Pina Colada?

[@makeanddrink]

No I don’t.

[@lokmtb8503]

@@makeanddrink I'm confused. I've always heard of a chi chi being a Pina Colada with Vodka instead of rum. Can you explain to me what a chi chi is?

[@makeanddrink]

@lokmtb8503 the videos explains it. They wanted to make a chi chi but decided to use rum. They don’t call it a chi chi on their menu, and it has a liqueur that a Pina Colada does not have. But I find what inspires someone to create something interesting, not matter the name or how they got there.

[@lokmtb8503]

@@makeanddrink 0:02 "it's their take on the Chi-Chi except we're getting rid of the vodka and using rum instead" 3:03 "so the chi chi is basically a Pina Colada with Vodka instead of Rum" If Chi Chi = Pina Colada - rum + Vodka. Why would you say Chi Chi - vodka + Rum ≠ Pina Colada I'm baffled at how this isn't a Pina Colada with macadamia liquor added. I swear this has to be some kind of tongue in cheek joke.

[@makeanddrink]

@lokmtb8503 dude. Way overthinking it. It’s literally not named a Chi Chi. Nor is it called a Pina Colada. They wanted to make a version of a Chi Chi and ended up with this. Happens with most cocktails. Start somewhere and end up somewhere else.

[@carsonpreece994]

But… will it slush

[@makeanddrink]

Anything will slush if you put your mind to it…. And have a spreadsheet.