In her new book, Lush Life: Portraits From The Bar, self-described “saloon artist” Jill DeGroff has captured the personalities of the cocktail world — bartenders and barflies alike — in living watercolor. But she doesn’t stop there. As you would with a well-mixed drink, Ms. DeGroff balances sweet and bitter by pairing her subjects with [...]
If you’d like to win a copy of our upcoming book, Beachbum Berry Remixed, we hereby hip you to cocktail blogger Kaiser Penguin’s new drink contest: create an original Tiki drink, post it on his site, and you just might end up among the three winners. The Beachbum is not one of the judges (as [...]
The Beachbum always orders Rumaki at Polynesian restaurants, because no matter how many guests at his table, he invariably gets the dish to himself. People with high cholesterol, vegetarians, and calorie-counters all recoil like vampires exposed to sunlight when they discover that Rumaki consists of water chestnut and chicken liver wrapped in bacon, skewered and [...]
One of the best bar guides we raided for Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log was a phone book-sized tome published in 1977. Jones’ Complete Bar Guide featured a whopping 4,000 recipes, but even more impressive were the photos on the back cover. These featured author Stan Jones (above) posed with various liquor industry reps, whose Montgomery [...]