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Black Magic

Halloween is a time when I like to have even more fun than usual with my garnishes. Sometimes, that means lighting up a jack o' lantern in my drink. Other times, that means adding some menacing blood (or grenadine) to create a man-eating Banana Dolphin. Here, I'm getting a little…

Tiki Death Punch

Tiki drinks are known for having great names, names that tell a story and make you want to order that drink - even if you don't know all of the secret ingredients that have gone into it. Give us a drink with a fun, funny or creative name and we'll…

Siren’s Kiss

We would venture to say that most tiki drinks are served with a straw and aren't meant to be sipped directly from the glass. This is probably a good thing, since you can get a lot more inventive with your garnishes if you don't have to tilt the mug every…

Tiki Tasting: Stolen Overproof Rum

Overproof rum is one of the most important ingredients in a tiki-phile's rum collection. Overproof rum is powerful - both in alcohol content and flavor - and it can make or break a drink by balancing out sweeter, fruitier ingredients or simply punching up the volume on the booze. We have a…

D&C Pina Colada

One of the funny things about taking a break from blogging is how hard it is to get back into the swing of things. It's not that there hasn't been any blogging going on - and there has still been plenty of drinking, recipe-development and photography - but just that…

Shipwrecked Monk

When we make a batch of our pineapple-infused rum, we tend to go through it rather quickly. It makes a fantastic daiquiri, as you might imagine, and is a good way to intensify the flavor of pineapple in some of our favorite tiki drinks. This Shipwrecked Monk offers a unique way…

Berried Treasure

There aren't a great number of berry tiki drinks out there (though there are quite a few innovated or recorded by one) and we wouldn't say that it's an essential tiki flavor. That being said, there is no reason that berries can't be incorporated into a tiki cocktail because they go fabulously…

Strawberry Rum Runner

Summer is strawberry season and we like to take those fresh berries and turn them into something that we can use in our bar. Strawberry syrup is a part of the ever-popular Lava Flow (which tastes much more delicious when fresh berries are employed) and cocktails like our Strawberry Shrunken…