Tiki Cocktails: Over 50 Modern Tropical Cocktails

Great recipes and pictures. This is a fun book to add to the purchase of tiki cocktails.

Didn’t expect much from this book but was very pleasantly surprised. One of the better tiki cocktail books with ingredients you can source.

A solid addition to the canon of modern tiki cocktail books, Tiki Cocktails contains a respectable 108 drink recipes (by my count), including originals and solid riffs on or rebalances of many classics. It's not perfect - lime juice seems conspicuously omitted in one recipe, several recipes call for very unusual ingredients - but the number of fresh new recipes, reasonable takes on traditional and modern classics, and a plethora of interesting ingredient recipes in the appendix make this a must-buy for the modern tiki enthusiast.

my friend is a bartender got this for him and he loves it!

What a nicely put together book for cocktail and Tiki fans. I haven't made any of the cocktails yet so can't comment on how good the recipes are but after reading through the book and the reviews here I would like to share some more info that might help you make a decision to purchase this.The book has 129 cocktail recipes by my count and the cover states more than 125 so I'm not sure why the listing title for Amazon says "Over 50 Modern Tropical Cocktails".The book feels nice in the hands and the book and pages stay open when flat on a table making it easy to read and use.There are very colorful pictures for most of the drinks which isn't always the case with these drink books. The pictures are staged in a manner that make you want to hold and taste the drink, with some pictures making you wonder what hidden hideaway the photoshoot took place in.Each recipe includes the glassware and garnish recommendations to help you nail the look exactly. There are also directions for 3 of the more novel garnishes (though only 2 are depicted in the book, I couldn't find the pineapple firebird). The presentation of garnishes really got me thinking that there could be a whole book about Tiki drink garnishes.The introduction has a short history of Tiki culture and midway through the book an intro to rum, the original main ingredient for Tiki drinks! Other than that, there isn't much more to learn about Tiki from the book, which is fine, though it would have been cool to have a list of must read Tiki related books for readers to further their education.The appendix includes the recipes for many of the syrups/flavors/mixes. But, as noted by other reviewers, some of the ingredients are not easily found. I did an online search and found DIY recipes for some of the items not included in the Appendix. Some take days/weeks to steep but I suspect there is even more pride if you make your own and the cocktails come out tasting good. Certainly you can brag more to your patrons/friends!Page 199 - The photo looks like it was taken at Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29 in New Orleans, LA. If you're ever there I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND dropping by as it's an awesome place for drinks and don't forget to pick up some Tiki mugs.Highly recommended, even if you don't drink but are a fan of Tiki culture.

Book looks great - but almost every recipe has very specific ingredients - right down to the brand and version. It's almost like the book was sponsored by these brands. I could have spent a bunch of time on Google or ChatGPT with "what rum is like ___", but I have better things to do. Even an stocked home bar won't have all you need for these.Again - book looks great, and if you have endless resources to hunt down all the ingredients, I'm sure you'll love it.

Most of the recipes in this book called for ingredients that I had never heard of. Perhaps these are standard fare for tiki aficionados, but here's an example of called-for ingredients that are *not* in my liquor cabinet:- allspice dram-falernum-oloroso sherry_Lustau Pedro Ximenez sherry-umeshu--Quaglia Liquore al Pino Mugo pine liqueur-miniature bottle of Underberg, to name just a fewThese may be wonderful recipes, but without access to these ingredients (in the rural hinterlands of Washington, D.C.), I could not make them.