Mr R called this, “A soft drink bourbon,” and I thought it was a great way of trashyfy-ing a bourbon with a cherry. It felt a bit like a drink you would have in a tiki bar to me,
although now that London’s Trader Vic’s has closed, I am going to have to hunt a bit harder for a UK tiki bar.
Or maybe I will just create my own?
After he’d drunk his Tarzan Mr Rathbone finally did the Tarzan cry.
I’d been waiting for that for weeks, as I assumed he would have been all over it when we had a Johnny Weissmuller Cocktail but NO, I had to bide my time! There was an almondy last sip because of the cocktail cherry and then the sound of this reverberated around Mr R’s flat.
I see I made a drunken note after a second one of these about when I lived on a houseboat and loved it. Mr R said he’d worry about feeling seasick on board one, and I said, “There are no houseboats on the sea.”
Which I guess is true. Here’s the recipe for a Tarzan – I know Mark Brisenden was waiting for this! I know that Edgar Rice Burroughs wasn’t IN movies, but he gets over 80 credits on the IMDB so in my book, he’s appropriate for this here blog. I can’t find the photo I took of the cocktail, but I’ll pop it in here when do!
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Effectively an Old fashioned then ! Though some purists balk at putting so much water and a slice of orange in, but when you’re mates with Tarzan and can call on elephant herd and great apes to back you with a quick yodel who’s going to argue with you ! A very fine cocktail though. I have a great biog of ERB somewhere, he may well have had a walk on role in the background of a film, I can’t remember but either way, creating one of the great screen characters of all time is quite enough for me to allow his inclusion ! Cheers, let me know when you open a Tiki bar in Hastings !
Now there is an idea Mark….
Oh, this is interesting, it always amuses me how there are so many recipes, especially for cocktails, that share the same name. See, I love Tarzan cocktails, but the ones I make are about as different as it’s possible to get, even the base spirit is different. But, looking into it, I have to concede that Mr Burroughs got to the name first, the one I’m familiar with is a modern tiki cocktail that was only invented in 2012. Still, it’s really good, tastes magically of grapefruit.
1 oz Gin
1 oz Campari
1½ oz Pineapple Juice
½ oz Simple Syrup
½ oz Lemon Juice
Soda water
Orange slice
shake, serve in a Collins glass with ice, top with Soda Water, garnish with an orange slice
ooooooh, this sounds absolutely DELICIOUS! YUM!