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Bum Berry's and Captain Vadrna's Faux-Tropical Bar School

Bum Berry’s and Captain Vadrna’s Faux-Tropical Bar School

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 [...]

Tiki Bar iPhone game - title screen

Review: Tiki Bar iPhone action game turns players into bar tenders

Today is April 15, which means that it’s the last day for U.S. citizens to file their yearly income taxes. If thoughts of 1040s, Schedule Cs, and 1099s drive you to drink, may I suggest a less intoxicating alternative: Caldera Studios’ new Tiki Bar game for iPhone.
If you happened to have played any of [...]

The Grogalizer

Updated Grogalizer tells home bartenders what drinks to make

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 [...]

Trader Tiki's Exotic Syrups

Trader Tiki’s Exotic Syrups now taking orders

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 [...]