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The Best Way to Upgrade Tiki Cocktails? Turn East to Ming River

Chilled Magazine

“Baijiu is the world’s most popular distilled spirit by both value and volume, so any spirits education that doesn’t include it is woefully incomplete—and a lot less fun,” says Derek Sandhaus, co-founder of Ming River and author of two books about baijiu, including most recent, Drunk in China.

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4 of the Strongest Cocktails You Can Order at a Bar

VinePair

The cocktail combines equal parts vodka, rum, tequila, gin, and triple sec ironically containing almost every ingredient in the book besides tea. Long Island Iced Tea Beloved and feared by many, the Long Island Iced Tea is a dive bar drink that said, What if we put every type of alcohol in one glass?

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Wedding Party Gift Guide

A Bar Above

Tiki Cocktail Book & Tiki Glasses Surprise your closest friends who are standing by you on your wedding day with some really cool cocktail recipes. Pair a set of hurricane glasses or tiki mugs with a tropical cocktail book for your own customized, fun gift box. Photo by Gianluca Riccio via www.unsplash.com 1.

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Bartenders, Celebrate National Absinthe Day with T.A. Breaux, Research Scientist, Creator of LUCID and Jade Absinthes

Chilled Magazine

The original “Savoy Cocktail Book” (1930) includes dozens of cocktails that call for absinthe. Absinthe was an indelible part of American cocktail culture, an object of global export, and every decent cocktail bar in North America stocked it until 1912; every good cocktail book until Prohibition included it. Experiment!

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Announcing Polynesiacs – Tiki at Home

Cocktail Wonk

In case you haven’t heard yet, Wonk Press (our publishing company) has released its first book by someone other than. The post Announcing Polynesiacs – Tiki at Home appeared first on Cocktail Wonk.

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Tiki Oasis Returns To San Diego With A 2024 Theme Of Way Out West

PubClub

PubClubette Ashley provides the beauty while I provide the brawn at Tiki Oasis San Diego. The world’s largest Polynesian festival, Tiki Oasis in San Diego, is back for 2024. ” The five-night, four-day all-things-tiki event is July 31-Aug. These are open to those with Tiki Oasis tickets.

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Next Wave Awards Bartender of the Year: Garret Richard

VinePair

Raised among the retro culture of Los Angeles and a tiki enthusiast before he was old enough to drink — he came to the culture via exotica music in high school — Richard ditched his focus on a radio career to get into bartending. A year later he started a “Tiki Takeover” series at Prime Meats in Brooklyn.

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