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Jeffy Berry calls the Fog Cutter Trader Vic's second most historically popular cocktail, unusual for a tiki drink because of the cream sherry that is floated on top. [8] The recipe for the drink is the same in both Bergeron's original 1947 Bartender's Guide and his revised version from 1972. [9]
Some recipes specify a sweetening agent of honey mixed with unsalted butter, while others use honey mixed with water. [3] Unlike other famous tiki cocktails such as the Zombie or Mai Tai, Navy Grog uses no exotically flavored syrups such as orgeat or falernum. The Trader Vic’s Navy Grog is significantly different from Don the Beachcomber’s.
Most current recipes for Mai Tais based on Trader Vic's 1944 recipe include rum, lime juice, orgeat syrup, and orange liqueur (typically orange curaçao).Variants may include the addition of amaretto, falernum, bitters, grenadine, orange, pineapple and grapefruit juices, and so on.
Trader Vic is largely credited with inventing the Scorpion Bowl, which after the Mai Tai and the Fog Cutter was Vic's third most famous cocktail. [5] As called for in his Bartender's Guide from 1947, his Scorpion Punch was meant for twelve people with listed ingredients of: 1 1/2 bottles of Puerto Rican rum, 2 oz gin, 2 oz brandy, 1 pt fresh lemon juice, 1/2 pt fresh orange juice, 1/2 pt ...
A Trader Vic test pilot version listed in his 1972 revised drink guide switches the lime juice for lemon and jettisons the Pernod and bitters, calling only for 1 3/4 oz dark Jamaican rum, 3/4 oz light Puerto Rican rum, 1/4 oz of Cointreau, 1/4 oz falernum, and 1/4 oz lemon juice. [12] Difford's Guide chose to highlight the Trader Vic's version ...
Trader Vic also listed a recipe for the Zombie in his 1947 Bartender's Guide. [24] Other competitors created drinks linked to the zombie. At Stephen Crane's Chicago Kon-Tiki Ports restaurant they featured a drink on the menu called The Walking Dead: "Makes the dead walk and talk. For those who want immediate action - meet the first cousin to ...
The drink may have been part of the general competition between Bergeron and Donn Beach, who had served in World War II. [8] Beach allegedly had a B-26 Bomber with a painted "Don the Beachcomber" on its fuselage named after him, and he had also created aviation themed cocktails such as the Q.B. Cooler and Test Pilot . [ 9 ]
Old menu cover, original Trader Vic's, Oakland. Trader Vic's is a restaurant and tiki bar chain headquartered in Emeryville, California, United States.Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 in San Francisco – October 11, 1984 in Hillsborough, California) founded a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his nickname, "Trader Vic".