Exotic alcoholic beverages
Our last suggestion for a great Father’s Day gift this week may actually be considered slighly selfish on the part of the giver, because the friends and family of the recipent will ultimately benefit from it as well. If the dad in your life has even a passing interest in mixing cocktails, Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s [...]
This sounds like a cocktailian’s dream come true: spend a week in Ibiza, Spain learning how make tropical drinks from Jeff “Beachbum” Berry and Stanislav Vadrna. From the site:
Jeff Berry and Stanislav Vadrna will give you an entertaining and enlightening overview of Tiki and faux-tropical culture: the fascinating history, the top-secret recipes, the tricks [...]
Sometimes you just don’t have time to make your own cocktails — so it would be nice to be able to grab an off-the-shelf drink to take on the run. Hula Girl Beverages are made to solve just that problem. The company sells 5 different flavors of rum-based drinks: Bikini Bling, Moonlight Mai Tai, Wild [...]
Swanky’s Grogalizer has become an essential tool in the tropical drink-loving home bartender’s arsenal, answering the essential question, “What drinks can I make with the ingredients I have on hand?”
After inputting which liquors, syrups, and fruit juices are in your cupboard, the Grogalizer compares what you have against the ingredients of the drinks featured in [...]
At last the long wait is over: announced last year, Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s latest book, Beach Bum Berry Remixed, is finally for sale at Amazon.
His latest recipe book is a completely revised and updated anthology of the Grog Log and Intoxica!, featuring 40 newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage Tiki drink recipes from the 1930s-1960s, plus [...]
Trader Tiki was a home bartender in Portland, Oregon on a mission to blog his adventures in discovering and dissecting classic tropical drink recipes and developing a few of his own. Along the way, he found that the few commercially available syrups called for in recipes weren’t quite up to the quality standards needed to [...]
Talk about one-stop shopping! I’ve picked up bits and pieces of this kit in my tiki bar travels across the US, but this is the first time I’ve seen all of this great Trader Vic’s stuff in one collection. Trader Vic’s Gourmet has collected everything the budding bartender needs to throw a Mai Tai party [...]