Ti' Punch Cocktail Recipe During Tiki Week, one of the recipes we considered featuring was Ti' Punch. In the end, though, it was beat out in the proto-tiki category by Planter's Punch. We kind of forgot about Ti' Punch until our friend Dan essentially demanded we...
Barbados Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe It took some coaxing and a lot of education, but we've gradually become fans of rum, and more quickly fans of tiki. It's true that tiki drinks can be a bit complicated; they take some preparation--of ingredients certainly, but even psychologically,...
What is Grog? I can't remember exactly how it came about, but over our drinks at Waypoint--not any of which were either a punch or grog--the group of us ended up pondering what exactly grog is, and how it differs from a punch. None of us...
Where You Should Be Drinking in Orlando: Aku Aku Tiki Bar + Tigerfucker Cocktail Recipe I've been to Downtown Disney a few times--not bad at all for being a park entrance and gift shop. I have to admit that I wasn't even aware that there is...
Tiki Week: The Legend of Don the Beachcomber We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...
Tiki Week: Not All Rum is the Same We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...
Tiki Week: The American Schools of Cocktail One of the things I liked best about Robert Simonson's semi-official history of the cocktail revival, A Proper Drink, was the way it helped me to understand the different schools of modern drink-making. I'd always known that not all...
Lyon White and Dark Rums This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Today, we'll taste their silver and dark rum,...
The Zombie Cocktail When Prohibition was lifted in the 1930s, US bartenders were eager to get the party started, but they had a supply problem. With US production halted for more than ten years, where would they get their spirits? Don the Beachcomber had the answer:...
Drink Like the French: Pam Pam in French Riviera + Coconut Rum Cocktail Recipe We spent five glorious days on the French Riviera. We stayed in the charming medieval town of Antibes, on a little peninsula into the Mediterranean between Nice and Cannes. Our apartment was about...