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Trading Post Launches!

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Announcing an exciting new product line from Trader Tiki!  Trader Tiki’s Exotic Syrups at the new Trader Tiki Trading Post! I’ve been doing the concoctioneering thing at home and behind the bar for a few years now, and people have often asked if they can have recipes, buy some from me, or even have me [...]

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Old Gold

This here’s a new drink I whipped together for the recent Forbidden Island cocktail contest on Tiki Central, held by Martin Cate of Forbidden Island!  I revealed this last night at the Thursday Drink Night.  No awards for this one, but I still think it’s a doozy of a drink. [singlepic=272,480,360,,center] Old Gold 1 1/2 [...]

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MxMo 19th Century, The Japanese Cocktail

Many thanks to this Mixology Monday’s hosts at Bibulo.us, sending us back in time (and into the library) for some 19th Century Cocktails! As read in Imbibe! by David Wondrich, in 1860, diplomats from Japan made a few weeks stay in New York City.  While there, they stayed at the Metropolitan hotel, about a block [...]

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Falernum Bitters

I’d had this idea in my head for awhile, to develop a bitters to bring out and strengthen Tiki flavors in drinks.  Of course, lo and behold I find that BIttermens beat me to the punch with their Tiki Bitters. A few months ago, I gave a bottle of Bridgetown Bitters to the OBG to [...]

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Test Pilot

When celebrating Don the Beachcomber’s legacy, or his recent birthday (Feb. 22d), what better way to remember the man than through his signature 1-2 punch of Bitters and Pastis (Herbsaint preferred, Pernod in a pinch), and the drink I think really brings it out best, the Test Pilot. The bitters/pastis combination adds a lot of [...]

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