Ingredients:

12 mint leaves
Rind of 1 small lemon (without the white pith)
Juice of 1 small lime (about 1 1/2 oz.)
1 teaspoon sugar or simple syrup
1/2 cup crushed ice
2 ounces Rhum Agricole Blanc (I used Neissen from Martinique)
Dash of aromatic bitters (I used Fee Bros)
Club soda to taste

Directions:

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the mint leaves, lemon rind, and lime juice. Combine with the sugar, rum and ice, then stir. Pour into a tall glass, then top with sparkling mineral water and crushed ice to fill. Add a dash of aromatic bitters on top. Garnish with mint sprig.

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2 oz. Pineapple Juice
2 oz. Freshly-squeezed Orange Juice
1 oz. Freshly-squeezed Lime Juice
1/2 oz. Freshly-squeezed Grapefruit Juice
1/2 oz. Kalani Coconut Liqueur
1/2 oz. Señor de Curaçao Curaçao Liqueur
1/4 oz. Trader Vic's Macadamia Nut Liqueur
1 oz. 10 Cane Rum
1/2 oz. Cruzan Blackstrap Rum
1/2 oz. Appleton Estate V/X
1/2 oz. Ron Matusalem Gran Reserva
1/8 oz. Absinthe
1/2 oz. Lemon Hart Demerara 151 Rum
1/4oz. Trader Vic's Maraschino Syrup.

Combine all ingredients, except the Lemon Hart 151 and Maraschino syrup, in a blender with 1 cup of crushed ice, and blend for exactly 5 seconds. Pour into a Hurricane glass, and fill with more crushed ice. Float 151 and Maraschino syrup on top. Garnish with the biggest mint sprig you can find.

Suck 'Em Up!

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Because Junkyard Clubhouse's commenters demand it (well, only one commenter, actually).

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Since the marinade was extremely spicy, I also tossed a couple of traditional Wisconsin bratwurst into the smoker for family members with less-developed palates (Mrs. BH and daughter, I'm lookin' at you!) and served them on rye buns with horseradish mustard.

Now it's time for the Simpsons and the Venture Bros. Life is good.

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I'll be working on that.

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What the hell was their marketing department thinking?

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We've just returned from a 3-day trip down the Great River Road to pick up our daughter from orchestra camp in Decorah, Iowa. We stayed at a couple of bed-and-breakfasts along the Mississippi River, antiqued and thrifted 'til we dropped, ate odd local delicacies, and generally had a very fun time. The weather was absolutely picture-perfect.

As you can see, my tiki-scoring mojo endured my return from California, as I managed to find cool PolyPop tschotkes just about everywhere I went, and at very reasonable prices too, although I did have to pass up a couple of fairly common Trader Vic's fog-cutter mugs which some jackass dealer had marked up to $95 each! Good luck selling those, buddy.

Larger images and item descriptions are located once again in the mug gallery, and some photographs of our trip can be viewed at my Flickr account. I even saw a Tiki bar along the muddy Mississipp, but unfortunately, there wasn't a single thing tiki about it besides the name.

[Link: Tiki Mug Gallery]
[Link: Great River Road Photos]

*-No actual foam Cheeseheads were harmed in the making of this truly awful song parody.

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In anticipation of that tragic day, I've decided that I wish to be fitted with a rocket-propelled prosthetic arm, holding a tiki mug.

That is all.

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Left-to-Right: Stockton Islander 3-face Bucket mug, Trader Dick's Sparks, Nevada Moai mug, Tiki Bob's San Francisco Skull mug, Orchids R-72 Moai mug, small Harvey's Lake Tahoe Hula Girl bowl.

Larger images viewable in my mug gallery [Link]

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I'm back. Normal posting will resume when Mrs. Bali Hai and I return from a belated anniversary trip down the Mississippi to enjoy the hospitality of a couple of quaint, and hopefully-not flooded bed and breakfasts, before picking up our daughter from orchestra camp in Northeastern Iowa. In the meantime, please enjoy a virtual Three Dots and a Dash cocktail, as served at the Las Vegas Don the Beachcomber's, circa 1965.

1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. orange juice
1/2 oz. honey mix (1 part melted honey to 1 part water)
1/4 oz. Fee Bros. Falernum syrup
1/4 oz. Pimento liqueur (Berry Hill)
1 1/2 oz. amber Martinique rum
1/2 oz. Demerara rum (80 proof)

Put all ingredients in a blender. Add 3/4 cup of ice and blend for 5 seconds. Pour into a specialty glass, and garnish with 3 Maraschino cherries and a pineapple spear (3 dots and a dash). Add more ice to fill.

Aloha.

Mr. BH

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I'm off to the SF Bay Area for the next two weeks on bidness. Blogging will probably not occur here in the interim, so the 5 or 6 of you who're still reading this blog will just have to go find something else to do.

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