T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. He wasn’t thinking about taxes, but you probably are. To ease your pain (which the Bum does not feel, because one does not worry about income tax when one has no income), here are two new Tiki punches to sip while wrestling with Form 1040. First [...]
Rum, rum, rum. Aren’t we just a teensy bit tired of reading about its resurgence by now? Well, no. We couldn’t be happier that our favorite dram is finally getting its due. And not just in the press, but in cocktails too. Here are three new rum drinks from three of our favorite European mixologists. [...]
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 [...]