The Beachbum may not be in the chips, but at least he’s in the news. For the current issue of Saveur magazine, he wrote a five-page spread about his favorite subject: rum. The article also features seven cocktail recipes, both classic and contemporary, plus brand recommendations. You can read it all here (minus the recommendations, [...]
Tiki drinks and Tiki tunes are colliding all over the map these days. In Swansea, Wales, Alastair Jenkins and his surf band The Hangmen name half the tracks on their new CD after Tiki drinks, including “Singapore Slingers,” “Shrunken Skull Stomp,” and our personal favorite, “Zombie Surf Party.” Sweden’s The Archers, another surf band that [...]
The Beachbum’s rum article in this month’s Saveur magazine rates ten rums based on their sippability and mixability. Unfortunately the article went to press before a recent sojourn to the Mediterranean, where we encountered several rums previously unknown to us. Since then, we haven’t been able to bring ourselves to review these rums on our [...]
Last July, the Beachbum was transported to a magical place where every cocktail was a lovingly constructed medley of exotic tastes. The place, for once, was not his drunkard’s dream, but the Mediterranean isle of Ibiza. And the drinks were made at the inaugural session of “Beachbum Berry’s and Captain Vadrna’s Faux-Tropical Bar School,” the [...]