Hack what you drink!
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Tiki Week(s) – Aloha!
It is with a heavy heart that I pen these words for this post signifies the end of our first Tiki Week. Naturally there will be more, but we now must move on to more unexplored cocktail territory. We’ve really only scratched the surface of what libations Tiki culture has to offer. The exotic ingredients,…
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Navy Grog
So, I’m a relatively simple guy with relatively simple tastes, and it should be known that if a cocktail’s name includes the word Grog you can count me in. Gets me back to my pirate roots, you know. So, when I ran across a reference to Navy Grog while researching Tiki cocktails I knew I…
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The Hurricane
So, we live in Colorado which is, without question, a semi-arid region of the US. So when it rains for two days straight, as it did on Friday and Saturday, it’s not a typical occurrence. Therefore, it seems exceedingly fitting that I should celebrate this rain by making a Hurricane cocktail. The Hurricane cocktail arose…
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The Zombie
The Zombie was created by Donn Beach in the late 1930s. Legend has it that Donn concocted the Zombie for a friend, a friend on his way to San Francisco. After consuming three of the delicious drinks, the man left for his trip. Upon his return, he reported that the cocktail had turned him into…
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Tikitastic!
Where once there was one week of Tiki drinks, there are now two! I like to think of it as some kind of wonderful magic trick, but instead of pulling a rabbit out of a hat I’m pouring delicious cocktails out of the shaker. We’ve had a good time with Tiki drinks this week and…