Honey Mix

Have you ever heard that simple breakdown of how to make a punch that goes one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, and four of weak? Sour typically means your juice, sweet means some syrup, strong is the spirit used, and weak is the ice or any other mixer. It still stands true today that basing a drink on this simple stanza makes for an at least drinkable cocktail. One of the things the tiki masters did when they were concocting their now classic drinks was to take this sentence and break it down further. One of sour, sure, but you could split that "one" in half and bring two different flavors into the mix while maintaining your ratio. This was something the tiki masters did all over the map. By bringing in not just lime and rum but lime, orange, and a blend of several rums, they made what we could call these days mixology. By combining flavors within these ratios, they created many more combinations than you could with just 4 ingredients. And getting creative was necessary to stay