Help During the Lime Crisis of 2014
Due to the great Lime Crisis of 2014, we are forced to re-evaluate options. In the past I have endorsed Nellie’s Key Lime juice as a back-up when fresh lime Read More …
Tag: drinks
Traveling Tiki Cocktail Bar needs
IMO, you can fit all you need to make many of the best Tiki drinks in a milk crate. Granted, these are for making Don the Beachcomber’s recipes… Light Rum (Cruzan) Read More …
DYI Ice Volcano for your Mini Mystery Bowl
If you don’t yet own the Mini Mai-Kai Mystery Bowl, well, go get one HERE. Follow along regardless. To make the ice volcano that goes in the center of the Read More …
Grogalizer 2.0 is here
With The Bum’s new book just out and his new seminar coming up at Hukilau, it is a great time to unveil the newly redesigned Grogalizer website. I have wanted Read More …
Molokai Bar Mai-Kai Menu
Just when you think you know what’s out there, something else comes along. Until about a month ago, I had never seen this menu. It is the “missing link” in Read More …
Mai Kai in Holiday Magazine March 1962
More Mai Kai goodness pre-Hukilau
New York Times Beachbum Berry Article
Da Bum. Great Story. great to have this exposure!
Crushed Ice Made Easy: Redux
I brought up getting bags of crushed ice before in preparation for a luau. Crushed ice is as much a part of a proper tropical cocktail as fresh mint and Read More …
Who Invented the Mystery Drink? – Answered!
I have always believed that the Mystery Drink was created at the Mai Kai and copied by the Kahiki. I had wondered why my early Mai Kai drink menu copyrighted Read More …
Mai Kai Okole Maluna Club Menu
I got this little menu on Ebay a while ago. I thought it was maybe just a mini ordering menu, perhaps for a luau or small event. This weekend at Read More …
The Bum Link
I had the good pleasure to meet Beachbum Berry at Hukilau. Heard his discussion on drinks and drink making. Talked drinks with him and even talked drinks at the Mai Read More …
Happy Birthday Dad! Happy 100!
On Thursday, the father of Tiki, Donn Beach would have been 100. He created many of the great drink recipes that we all know now as “Tropical Drinks” or “Tiki Read More …
Grogalizer – Tiki Drink Mixer’s Best Friend
That, and a gift card to the liquor store… I created the Grogalizer a few years ago because I was tired of spending lots of time thumbing through the Beachbum Read More …
“The Tropics” Rodeo Drive – Beverly Hills, CA
I would almost say this isn’t quite a tiki bar, but just tropical, but there are all of Don the Beachcomber’s recipes on the menu, so it must be part Read More …
withdrawing my support of Hukilau. Editing all the links to point to hukilau.org insteadPablus and The Crazed Mugs
One of the things IÂ most look forward to at Hukilau and other East Coast Tiki Revival gatherings is the sounds of Pablus and his uke. He’s a good friend and Read More …