Has this ever happened to you?
You’ve got friends coming over for cocktails. People like Rick, who will judge you harshly for any lapses in ingredient availability. Then suddenly it hits you: “Oh fiddlesticks!” you think. “I forgot to start falernum two days ago!” Your friends won’t be able to have any Jet Pilots, [...]

Drinking rum is the paragon of happiness.
This sugar-blessed potion comes in a prismatic spray of variety that has prompted more grail-like quests to hunt down rare bottles than than any other spirit. There are over 175 different rums available in the U.S. alone, and that’s ignoring all the bubblegum and foie gras-flavored (yes please) [...]

Beachcomber’s Gold appears in three separate incarnations in Remixed, this version being a complete departure from the previous with only the light rum and Angostura bitters in each.
Donn was a tinkerer, rarely willing to call a recipe his “final” version. And as a Gnomish artisan, he excelled, but he wasn’t without failure…

Beachcomber’s Gold (Waikiki)

1oz [...]

It’s de-lurking day! For the fourth year in a row, I hope to drag you bashful, non-commenters out of your havens to introduce yourselves and win something. Each year we add a bunch of little monsters to the comment stream and manage to herd you into our tiny cargo hold of a cocktail [...]

Riffing on the Aurora Bora Borealis proved to be a challenging quest. And one so fraught with peril I had to dig out my dusty game cocktail genie to grant me more lives. Orange, orgeat, and coconut cream seem to be the best of friends, but push one even the tiniest bit the [...]

For the newcomer, coconut cream may look like a bad bedroom experiment – each can filled with translucent lard balls suspended in a snot-like fluid. But there’s an easy way to bring these disturbing partners together: empty the whole mess into a tupperware container or mason jar, pop on the lid, and shake vigorously. [...]

Taking a page from one of my favorite food blogs, Momofuku for 2, I’ll occasionally be posting variations on the recipes found within Beachbum Berry Remixed. Doing so will help me use up ingredients before they go bad (like fruit nectar from a stupid can) and to stretch the world of tiki in ways [...]

In case you didn’t catch my last post, I’m blogging my way through Beachbum Berry Remixed. This kraken-filled quest will surely reef half my warships and turn even the stoutest of crewmates into amorphous blobs of rum and falernum by journey’s end… but every look into my spyglass reveals a horizon filled with tiki [...]

Like many blogs before me, I’m embarking on a insurmountable quest. One so perilous, so epic, and so filled with rum that I may die from joy before its completion.
My Mission
Blog every drink in Beachbum Berry Remixed from beginning to end.

The impetus for this grand quest is the last potion in this tipular tome, [...]

Certain ingredients are simply better at fixing bad cocktails than others.
And this whole post is devoted to those mirages of flavor – ingredients that are occasionally esoteric but frequently simple, yet all able to mend nearly any cocktail mishap no matter how foul its ichor. If you’ve ever joined us for a Thursday Drink [...]