The Mutiny has been cited as a favorite of the late Mai-Kai co-owner Bob Thornton, so perhaps he was the driving force behind the drink’s creation. The cocktails already share many of the same ingredients, so it took just a few tweaks to yield some amazing results. This would not be out of line for the owners to request. More likely, Licudine put his talents to work later to create an amalgamation of two of the most popular drinks on the menu. It’s unclear if they were actually mixed together that day on the boat. To quell an impending mutiny, an idea was hatched to somehow combine them into one monster drink, and the Mutiny was born. According to the story, there was a rebellion against those two drinks always being featured. (Photo by Hurricane Hayward, November 2010)Īccording to legend, the Mutiny was conceived on one of the many Mai-Kai staff fishing trips at which the participants always brought an ample supply of two cocktails: the Black Magic and Barrel O’ Rum. The Mutiny stands above the Black Magic and The Hukilau in the Atomic Grog ratings. It appeared on the original 1956 Mai-Kai menu and was joined some 15 years later by the Mutiny. So where did these distinctive cocktails come from, and why are they so similar? The Black Magic came first, reportedly created before The Mai-Kai’s opening by mixologist Mariano Licudine, who was then working for Don the Beachcomber. 10) and has an incredible complexity that keeps drawing me back. It’s always been decidedly higher in my Mai-Kai cocktail ratings (currently sitting at No. I pitch my tent solidly in the Mutiny camp. These aren’t simple drinks, but we’re sure you’ll find the results well worth the effort. This can be a daunting task since they’re both very strong and very large cocktails, not that we haven’t tried many times.īut thanks to our research, you can give it a whirl in your home bar with the tribute recipes posted below and on the Black Magic review. The only way to truly compare these titans until recently was to sit down at the restaurant’s legendary Molokai bar and taste them side-by-side. The Mutiny is now served in a heavier but still voluminous mug, which made its debut in April 2018. the Black Magic in an epic battle between two classic rum-and-coffee cocktails. At The Mai-Kai in Fort Lauderdale, it’s the Mutiny vs. There are many great cocktail debates, most notably the Martini (gin or vodka?) and Old Fashioned (rye or bourbon?). The Black Magic emerges from the shadows as a true classic Postscript: Mutiny on blogs, in bars, and on social media See below: Our Mutiny review | Tribute recipes They don’t know anything about anything.Ĭontinue reading “Take 5: Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, Tiki cocktail author and historian extraordinaire” … All these people are self-appointed experts. It’s not about competition, it’s not about who’s the best, it’s not about some guy with spiked hair telling you about the awesomeness of the food. That’s the antithesis of the true spirit of hospitality, of genteel camaraderie, of going to a place to exchange confidences and emotions, and happy experiences with people that you either know or you’ve met at these places. Where you get stressed out and compete against your fellow chefs or bartenders. All of these TV channels traffic in all of this competition bullshit, where restaurants are not places to go to relax and unwind. What these places are about is “aloha,” it’s about the spirit of true hospitality, of welcoming, of making you feel important, of making you feel good. Because none of those channels, none of those hosts, none of that garbage is about what these places are about. I would suggest that they just take their suggestion and shove it. If Food Network or the Travel Channel came to you and said, “Pitch us a show about tropical drinks,” what would you suggest? I would have loved to have seen what that was like.Ģ. That would be Don the Beachcomber’s in 1934: Ground zero, the big bang, the creation of the Tiki bar as we know it – by Donn, right after Prohibition. If you could transport yourself for one night back in time to any Tiki bar or restaurant, what would it be and when? Jeff “Beachbum” Berry (right) and Hurricane Hayward enjoy their classic Mutiny cocktails in The Mai-Kai gardens. In April, we caught up with the author of such essential Tiki cocktail bibles as Grog Log and Sippin’ Safari in his natural habitat (The Mai-Kai gardens) and posed the following questions. Jeff “Beachbum” Berry is extremely passionate about Tiki, tropical drinks and The Mai-Kai.
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