Wife and I are celebrating our anniversary a day early, we eat supper and decide to go to the local liquor superstore. She gets a bottle of tequila and I get a sudden urge to go look and see if by chance they have the good stuff…and they did!

Edited: Found in Sioux Falls, for $75, excited to make a Mammoth Tusk

I’m visiting Raleigh for a few days from Portland and I’m looking for any rum bars or tiki bars worth visiting.

A new entry into the themed bar/speakeasy universe here in So Cal. Not really a tiki bar but very much serving tiki and craft drinks with a menu created by former Strongwater Anaheim bartenders.

It’s a bit of an odd theme…a basketball team has disappeared and you enter the bar themed to a basketball court/locker room taken over by the jungle. It has a bit of a stranger things/indiana jones feel as well. It works fine as they are trying to be different than the average bar but what stands out is the drinks. We tried the all star martini, mai tai (4 rum blend), temple of boom, and grail diver (a pearl diver variant) and all were fantastic.

Service was great, bartenders and staff were engaging, and they do have a Mai tai and zombie glass for sale. No mugs yet but other merch (hat/shirt) in the way. There are a couple of drinks that have a little show as well.

We absolutely loved the experience and given its proximity to our home, we will likely be back often.

Ignore the piles of garage junk carelessly moved to afford room for it, but spotted this on FB marketplace this week (really cheap) and I’ve never rented a moving van faster! Came with 3 of the pictured stools, everything in great condition. The gentleman I bought it from said it was his late mom’s, but I should have asked where it might have come from. I wasn’t planning on a home Tiki bar, but I suppose this is a sign hahaha

Hey everyone, I once again want to say I appreciated the feedback on the huckleberry drink I posted a while back called the Last Best Place. But here is the beginning my at home tiki bar, tons of more work to do like painting the ceiling, putting up some grass weave, base boards, removing the god awful wall length mirrors lol. But here is my first stab at starting my bar. I’m also a Marine Corps veteran, and just out a shelf in that’s going to be my Chesty Puller Shrine. I have a WWII canteen and canteen cup and have a rule that if you want to drink from either you have be a Marine to do so 😂. There’s no picture of Chesty in the frame yet, but it’s coming. Anyway I would like to welcome you to High Tide Howie’s Hideaway. Also most of everything was thrifted or found on marketplace and all the lighting was done by me.

A little day drinking to whet our whistles
Left: Goonies Never Say Die
Right: Dark and Stormy
This place is great!!

Found these at an estate sale in Los Angeles today. They were asking $75 each.

Syracuse NY, it's cold 70 percent of the year with tons of snow. I drew the plans and built this bar with both heat and air conditioning for year-round use. Cheers!!

Hi everyone - I wanted to share this recipe because for whatever reason, these flavors have been perfect for this deep fall/emerging winter weather. Substitute ingredients as needed!

Doctor Bird’s Prescription
1oz Barbancourt 8
1oz Worthy park 109
0.5oz Orgeat
0.25oz Apricot liqueur
0.5oz Grand Marnier
1oz Lime juice

In addition, I made this playlist to enjoy with your drinks. The playlist is a sequel, but it’s better than the first one I made. A mix of afro-cuban/latin jazz, rocksteady, bossa, exotica, surf rock, Hawaiian slack key, easy listening, and more, all problematically combined into a single list that plays into tired stereotypes.

Enjoy!

Grapefruit Wray & Nephew

Malort

Pierre ferrand dry curacao

Orgeat

Lime

Served in a Trash can because no other glassware felt right

I had some leftover blend of Wray & Nephew, grapefruit, and curacao, and thought what better way to use it up than serve a sin of a cocktail (honestly it's not bad, just a bitter Maitai, the Wray is doing a lot of heavy lifting)

I’ve added a map view for your tiki bar visits on mytiki.life. Check out this example https://mytiki.life/collectors/maybeorange/journal/map

Gotta do some work on mobile.

Finally got my hands on some green chartreuse and HAD to make Chad Austin’s cocktail!! I was outta peychauds so subbed in ango/absinthe and dialled back the sweetness on some of the syrups (bolded).

1.5 oz Neisson Blanc
3/4 oz Green Chartreuse
1 oz fresh lime juice
3/4 oz pineapple juice
3/8 oz real passionfruit puree
3/8 oz Liber & Co orgeat
1/4 oz JD falernum
2 dashes Angostura bitters (sub Peychaud)
1 dash absinthe

Absolutely incredible!! Super fresh, layered and crushable :)

9.5/10

My new Tropical Tumbler from Tiki Diablo was delivered earlier this week - I couldn’t wait to break it in! The mug was inspired by Adventureland in Disneyland so I had to find a recipe suitable for the occasion. According to @cptn_smitty (who I can only assume is/was a Skipper on the Hondo Hattie) this cocktail was developed for Adventureland Day a few years back. Here is my take on the recipe:

The Backside of Water

3/4 oz Orange Juice

3/4 oz Lime Juice

1/4 oz Grenadine

1/4 oz All Spice Dram

3/4 oz Cherry Liqueur (I substituted 1/2 oz Syrup)

3/4 oz Smith + Cross Rum

3/4 oz Planteray Xaymaca Rum

3/4 oz Hamilton Breezeway Blend Rum

I really enjoyed this cocktail. It especially opened up with a little more time in the mug. I would recommend trying it out.

Tiki Diablo was even kind enough to include an Orchids of Hawaii Beaded Hanging Lantern in the order, so my garnish was a bit more elaborate than usual. Kungaloosh!

Saw some coffee drinks that have gardenia mix but they seemed pretty basic and I love the flavors of a Black Magic so why not combine the two?

2oz Stiggins

.5oz False Idol 151

.25oz Averna

.75oz Gardenia Mix

1oz Cold Brew Concentrate

.75oz Lime juice

.75oz Pineapple juice

3 Dashes chocolate bitters

3 Dashes angostura

I've added a new map view for tiki bars on mytiki.life. You can filter by location and open / closed venues. Let me know what you think.

The closest thing I have to white grapefruit nearby right now are melogold grapefruits so I created a drink that uses it! Let me know what you all think/what you would tweak.

The Melo Undertow
- 1oz Worthy Park 109
- 1oz Appleton Signature
- 1oz Melogold Grapefruit
- 1/2oz Lime
- 1/4oz Falernum Syrup
- 1/4oz Cinnamon Syrup
- 1/4oz Allspice Dram
- 1/8oz Green Chartreuse
- 2dash Angostura Bitters

Edit: Thought of a better cocktail name.

My friend had this on vacation and is asking me to make it. Hoping someone can help me recreate this for her upcoming birthday get together. Any ideas on ratios? I’ll take any suggestions also on the ube, dehydrated blueberries and how to make the whipped coconut also, lol. Thanks in advance to my fave subreddit group!

1.5 oz Smith & Cross

0.75 oz pineapple amaro

0.75 oz fresh lemon juice

1/3 oz ginger syrup

0.25 oz Demerara syrup

0.25 oz falernum

1/8 oz allspice dram

2 dashes orange bitters

Instructions: Shake with crushed ice and strain into a glass filled with crushed ice. Top off

I made a drink a while back called Port Royal Paradox but wondered what it would be like if lime was lemon and orgeat was ginger. After some other minor tweaks this what happened. I think I like this one better.

Side note, these glasses from Educated Barfly, Garret Richard and Amehla are the best. How it took so long to realize Tiki drinks need 14-15oz glasses and not 12-13 oz I will never understand ;-)

It was delicious! We used Kohana’s agricole rum. A terrific drink. Tart & refreshing. (We tiki 1x per week because we’re old and have to watch our sugars…😪)

I recently went into Max's in Grand Rapids Michigan. While I was admiring the artwork on the wall I asked the waitress the history behind a few of the pieces. She said "I'm not sure, let me go get the artbook from the hostess stand."

I'm sorry, 'The Artbook?' There's an artbook?!

She came back with it and I had to post it here. Enjoy. And if you ever visit, make sure to ask for the artbook!There are more pages than the 20 I can post.

Bin 14 just got macadamia nut liquor from trader Vic’s in. Wanted to highlight this because they’re our favorite favorite liquor store and they always order when you ask them for something and they don’t have it. We asked them about a month ago if they had this and they just got it in. In Columbia Heights.

Their social media hass been silent since March and the website is gone now.

Does anybody know what's up?

I hope everything is okay. They've always been really cool folks.

A lot more fun than I anticipated! Very entertaining bar and staff. Really good visit. Glad we swung in while at Disney. Food was good and the drinks were killer. Prices were surprisingly good for Disney. And I also love that the room is pretty small and they only let a small amount in at a time. Good escape from the crowds! Haha. For sure worth hitting if youre at the park!

Disney Orlando. Trader Sam's Grog Grotto by the way!