eastern sour

The Seahorse

We love a cocktail that has some spice to it. This is, in part, because big-bodied rums and whiskeys tend to go particularly well with spices like cinnamon, allspice and clove - just to name a few. Sometimes we use a spiced simple syrup, but in other drinks we opt…

Mango Overboard

Though we honestly like them all, mangoes are one of our favorite tropical fruits and we just can't resist them when they're in season. Mangoes don't make it into tiki drinks quite as often as other tropical fruits, however. We attribute this to the fact that mangoes, while delicious, have…

Irish Sour

Most tiki drinks are made with rum, but whiskey, gin and other spirits are also used depending on what flavor you're trying to achieve in a drink. One very well known drink that uses whiskey as a base is the Eastern Sour, a twist on a whiskey sour that was…

The Eastern Sour is a relatively strange tiki cocktail in that it doesn't use any rum and it really doesn't use any tropical fruit juices. It's a very slight twist on a classic whisky sour, originally created by Trader Vic to celebrate the launch of a Toronto location - hence…