#64: Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch

With a detailed name like this, I was pretty curious to try out Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch.  This one goes way back, to the origins of the West Coast tiki explosion in the 50s.  As the name suggests, it was created by the legendary Donn Beach for his restaurant: "The Colonel´s Plantation Beef Steak and Coffee House” in Waikiki,Hawaii.  The taste is pretty classic as well, ginger beer mixed with pernod and Puerto Rican Rum with a lime twist makes for a tangy grog-like flavor.  Ingredients are as follows.

• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 2 oz unsweetened pineapple juice
• 0.5 oz falernum
• 2 oz ginger beer
• 2 dashes angostura bitters
• 1/8 tsp pernod
• 2 oz dark Jamaican rum
• 1 oz gold Puerto Rican rum
• 0.5 oz Barbados rum

Shake with some crushed ice, and you got yourself a cocktail.  Tonga Hut mixes a great set of drinks, with very talented bartenders.  Which is why, I close this entry with a personal pet peeve.  More often than not, I'll see folks come in droves to the Hut, and order nothing but PBR.  This particular night, a group of 12 came in, and ordered up pile after pile of PBR cans.  This is a pretty extreme waste of talent and flavor, but on the plus side, it means I get to order more drinks!