Category: Cocktail Technique

Let’s Talk Sugar and Demerara Syrup

Let’s talk sugar and syrups. Cocktail recipes often call for Demerara syrup, which many people don’t happen to have handy….

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Stop Setting Your Rum on Fire! Tiki Fire Explained

Rum and fire. They go together like peanut butter and chocolate, or burgers and fries. But I’m here to tell…

Minimalist Tiki: What you truly need to make classic Tiki Cocktails

What follows is the original Minimalist Tiki article that inspired the 2019 book of the same name. (Available at MinimalistTiki.com.)…

Expanding the Tiki Lexicon – Coffee flavor in Falernum?

One day as Jason Alexander and I were doing our usual Facebook chatting about all topics rum and Tiki, we…