TIKI DRINKS

A visit to one of the last great Tiki bars of the 70's

A 1970's drink with a Tiki soul. The Jungle Bird is one of those drinks that is so ubiquitous that I assumed it was one of the original...

A great drink from, "Everyone Has a F*cking Cocktail Book" by Chad Austin

A Favorite Drink from Sippin' Santa 2021!

A look at Latitude 29 during Sippin' Santa 2021! I've made no secret of the fact that Jeff "Beachbum" Berry is partially responsible for...

The Pango Daiquiri - another Bamboo Sam original!

A great drink with multiple outcomes

An old punch methodology that will remake familiar drinks!

A drink from Pagan Idol that's lighter tasting than its ingredients suggest.

A hard twist on the daiquiri.

Hot buttered rum was originally just that, rum, hot water, and a pat of butter. We can do better...

A look into the Port Light, a bourbon based Tiki Classic

The Pearl Diver is another one of those drinks that would have been lost to time were it not for the dogged pursuit of Jeff "Beachbum" Berry

The Patterson House (Nashville) is known for classic cocktails. The Elusive Dreams is their riff on the classic Hotel Nacional Special.

Trader Tom's take on the Lei Lani Volcano? Over the holidays I had the good fortune of procuring a bottle of blood orange syrup. As a...

Another drink where we have an original and an update! One of the advantages of being an adult with a well publicized hobby is that any...

A great use of sparkling wine from London's Trailer Happiness bar While I've posted a couple of holiday themed drinks over the years such...

The Puerto Rican Egg Nog As the holidays approached I was greeted with an offer to buy some "Coquito" from a Puerto Rican family in my...

...seems like a good drink for toasting the last month of 2020! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm a big fan of all things coconut. While there...

A great drink for the holiday season. When we think of Tiki and tropical drinks we most often conjure visions of tropical locations and...

The Falinum cocktail from Smuggler's Cove.

A lesser known cocktail from Tiki's Golden Age. While I often write about Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic, there was a third pillar of...

The dangerous drink that launched the tropical drinks craze I'm really not sure how I made it this far without doing a post on the...

A modern take on the Polynesian Paralysis Given that my liquor of choice prior to my Tiki conversion was bourbon, the Polynesian...

A Hiphipahula dedication to the Tikiyaki Orchestra After my Blue Curaçao epiphany with the Cherry Blossom, I've been going back through...

An award winner from a giant in the Tiki-mixology world. Despite my knowing better (this being written in what we currently consider to...

Another instant classic from the Minimalist Tiki. As I continue to work my way through Minimalist Tiki, an interesting confluence of a...

A twist on the Planter's Punch for my drone flying friends.

A modified Daiquiri for the flying class.

A great Tiki Revival Cocktail from Brian Maxwell via Minimalist Tiki.

An attempt to recreate a drink I never knew existed!

A Tiki Revival drink from Martin Cate's Smugglers Cove!

The Kon-Tiki Rain, a great Tiki revival drink from Kelly "Hiphipahula" Reilly & "Trader" Tom Morgan.

A quick look at the Rum Runner in two different forms.

My latest discovered riff on the Planter's Punch - the Kill Devyl Reef

An ode to Black Tot Day on its 50th anniversary.

The daiquiri that launched them all!

A Bamboo Sam original. Nashville in July is like Florida but without the ocean breeze - in a word, HotAndSticky. It's around this time of...

The Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch by Don the Beachcomber.

The Lorikeet is a riff on the Jungle Bird by Shannon Mustipher.

A great example of "less is more" cocktail.

The Golden Barnacle cocktail is a Tiki revival drink that adheres closely to what made Tiki drinks great in the first place.

A WWII era drink from Vic's original Oakland location. There are a few images that loom large in my romantic notions of the South...

The Halekulani, a classic Hawaiian cocktail from the 1930's.

It doesn't get much more tropical... Before I knew what a Tiki mug was I was awed by two types of drinks I remember my mom getting when I...

Trader Sam's Shipwreck on the Rocks

Kelbo's twist on the standard daiquiri.

A Traditional Cocktail from 3 ingredients! I realize that in these times of pandemic related "shelter in place" orders, that some of us...

How to make a Pohō Moku cocktail.

The Monk-ey Nut, one of the most unique tropical drinks I've had in a long while.