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TIKI DRINKS
All of my Favorite Drinks in Tikidom
Bamboo Sam
Feb 16, 20234 min read
Trader Vic's - Atlanta
A visit to one of the last great Tiki bars of the 70's
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Bamboo Sam
Apr 1, 20222 min read
The Jungle Bird
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Mar 25, 20222 min read
The Beatles Are Overrated
A great drink from, "Everyone Has a F*cking Cocktail Book" by Chad Austin
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Bamboo Sam
Dec 14, 20212 min read
Christmas Eve of Destruction
A Favorite Drink from Sippin' Santa 2021!
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Bamboo Sam
Nov 26, 20213 min read
Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Aug 24, 20212 min read
Pango Daiquiri
The Pango Daiquiri - another Bamboo Sam original!
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Bamboo Sam
Aug 13, 20213 min read
Planet of the Apes
A great drink with multiple outcomes
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Bamboo Sam
May 11, 20214 min read
Clarified Milk Punch #1
An old punch methodology that will remake familiar drinks!
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Bamboo Sam
May 4, 20212 min read
Toucan Dance
A drink from Pagan Idol that's lighter tasting than its ingredients suggest.
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Bamboo Sam
Apr 13, 20213 min read
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
A hard twist on the daiquiri.
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Bamboo Sam
Feb 19, 20212 min read
Hot Buttered Rum
Hot buttered rum was originally just that, rum, hot water, and a pat of butter. We can do better...
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Bamboo Sam
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Port Light
A look into the Port Light, a bourbon based Tiki Classic
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Bamboo Sam
Jan 26, 20213 min read
Pearl Diver
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
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Bamboo Sam
Jan 19, 20213 min read
Elusive Dreams
The Patterson House (Nashville) is known for classic cocktails. The Elusive Dreams is their riff on the classic Hotel Nacional Special.
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Bamboo Sam
Jan 12, 20213 min read
Volcano Cooler
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Jan 5, 20213 min read
The Siboney
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Dec 22, 20202 min read
Jezebel's Blush
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Dec 15, 20203 min read
Coquito
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Dec 8, 20202 min read
Kick in the Coconuts
...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...
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Bamboo Sam
Dec 1, 20202 min read
Dharma Bum
A great drink for the holiday season. When we think of Tiki and tropical drinks we most often conjure visions of tropical locations and...
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Bamboo Sam
Nov 13, 20201 min read
Falinum
The Falinum cocktail from Smuggler's Cove.
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Bamboo Sam
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Rain Killer
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Oct 30, 20204 min read
The Zombie
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Oct 16, 20204 min read
Pineapple Paralysis
A modern take on the Polynesian Paralysis Given that my liquor of choice prior to my Tiki conversion was bourbon, the Polynesian...
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Bamboo Sam
Oct 9, 20204 min read
Black Sand, Blue Sea
A Hiphipahula dedication to the Tikiyaki Orchestra After my Blue Curaçao epiphany with the Cherry Blossom, I've been going back through...
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Bamboo Sam
Oct 2, 20203 min read
The Saturn
An award winner from a giant in the Tiki-mixology world. Despite my knowing better (this being written in what we currently consider to...
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Bamboo Sam
Sep 25, 20203 min read
Cherry Blossom
Another instant classic from the Minimalist Tiki. As I continue to work my way through Minimalist Tiki, an interesting confluence of a...
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Bamboo Sam
Sep 15, 20201 min read
BVLOS
A twist on the Planter's Punch for my drone flying friends.
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Bamboo Sam
Sep 15, 20201 min read
Wedding Wings
A modified Daiquiri for the flying class.
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Bamboo Sam
Sep 11, 20202 min read
Second Rummer Up
A great Tiki Revival Cocktail from Brian Maxwell via Minimalist Tiki.
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Bamboo Sam
Sep 4, 20202 min read
Foul Weather
An attempt to recreate a drink I never knew existed!
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Bamboo Sam
Aug 28, 20202 min read
The Golden Gun
A Tiki Revival drink from Martin Cate's Smugglers Cove!
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Bamboo Sam
Aug 21, 20203 min read
Kon-Tiki Rain
The Kon-Tiki Rain, a great Tiki revival drink from Kelly "Hiphipahula" Reilly & "Trader" Tom Morgan.
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Bamboo Sam
Aug 14, 20203 min read
Rum Runner
A quick look at the Rum Runner in two different forms.
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Bamboo Sam
Aug 7, 20203 min read
Kill Devyl Reef
My latest discovered riff on the Planter's Punch - the Kill Devyl Reef
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Bamboo Sam
Jul 31, 20203 min read
Navy Grog
An ode to Black Tot Day on its 50th anniversary.
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Bamboo Sam
Jul 24, 20203 min read
Daiquiri No. 1
The daiquiri that launched them all!
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Bamboo Sam
Jul 10, 20202 min read
Coco H'Tó
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...
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Bamboo Sam
Jun 19, 20202 min read
Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch
The Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch by Don the Beachcomber.
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Bamboo Sam
Jun 12, 20202 min read
The Lorikeet
The Lorikeet is a riff on the Jungle Bird by Shannon Mustipher.
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Bamboo Sam
Jun 5, 20203 min read
The Mojito
A great example of "less is more" cocktail.
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Bamboo Sam
May 29, 20203 min read
The Golden Barnacle
The Golden Barnacle cocktail is a Tiki revival drink that adheres closely to what made Tiki drinks great in the first place.
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Bamboo Sam
May 22, 20202 min read
Trader Vic's PB2Y2
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...
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Bamboo Sam
May 15, 20202 min read
The Halekulani
The Halekulani, a classic Hawaiian cocktail from the 1930's.
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Bamboo Sam
May 8, 20203 min read
The Boo Loo
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...
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Bamboo Sam
May 1, 20201 min read
Trader Sam's Shipwreck on the Rocks
Trader Sam's Shipwreck on the Rocks
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Bamboo Sam
Apr 24, 20203 min read
Kelbo's Guava Daiquiri
Kelbo's twist on the standard daiquiri.
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Bamboo Sam
Apr 17, 20203 min read
Corn & Oil
A Traditional Cocktail from 3 ingredients! I realize that in these times of pandemic related "shelter in place" orders, that some of us...
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Bamboo Sam
Apr 3, 20203 min read
The Monk-ey Nut
The Monk-ey Nut, one of the most unique tropical drinks I've had in a long while.
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