TIKI CULTURE

Halloween, Cartoons and Halloween Tiki Cocktail Recipes

Hey rockin’ daddy-O’s and krazy little mamas! Halloween is right around the corner…And this time of year I get so busy with decor and parties, I don’t have a lot of ticks left to write posts. So here are some kookie, fun vintage spooky videos and cocktail concoctions for the season of the witch, to get you through the next couple of days…

Betty Boop and Cab Calloway, Minnie The Moocher

Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Ghost of Stephen Foster

The Nightmare Before Christmas, Oogie Boogie’s Song

Tiki Cocktails Recipes for Halloween (and some spooky movies!)

The Original Zombie

Red Devil

Red Death

Pumpkin Martini

Frozen Zombie, Dracula’s Blood & The Michael Myers Halloween Cocktail

The Bayou Slime Cocktail - Your Weekend Tiki Drink Recipe

The Bayou Slime

With Halloween fast approaching, it’s imperative to have a spooky cocktail or two waiting in the wings. Zombies, Blue Devils and Vampire’s Blood Martinis are perfect for the Halloween-decorated Tiki Bar, but to really raise the “bar” you need a nice gooey

Bayou Slime

A true Tiki drink, the Bayou Slime mixes rum with spiced cordial syrup and fresh mint to give you a drink that’s both tasty and kind of gross.

Ingredients:
•    2 oz Dark Rum
•    6-8 fresh mint leaves
•    1/2 oz Fee Brothers Spiced Cordial Syrup
•    1 egg white

Our house is fully decorated for Halloween. Now we just need to mix the drinks.

Muddle mint leaves together with the syrup. Make sure the leaves are crushed. (Save a few leaves for the garnish) Throw everything together in a shaker with ice and shake it up real good. Strain into a martini glass and add some fresh crushed mint leaves on top as a garnish. The egg makes the concoction kind of frothy and slimy, and the mint makes it look like it’s covered in moss. To make it even spookier, add a couple of drops of green food coloring, or serve in one of those cool skull Tiki mugs.

Happy Halloween!

-Tiki Chris, reporting from the Haunted Castle

Celebrate International Exotic Cocktail Day!

Happy International Exotic Cocktail Day!

Today is a day to remember how much we all love Tiki cocktails. Most of us do this on a daily or weekly basis anyway, but what the hell, let’s have one special day to really drive the point home, right?

So I raise of glass of imported rums, exotic spices and fresh citrus juices to you all Tikiphiles, Retro lovers and all. Cheers!

We’ll be celebrating tonight at Florida’s famous Wreck Bar at the Yankee Clipper in Fort Lauderdale, where we’ll be watching Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid’s show. Then it’s off to the Mai Kai! My plan is to have a Mai Tai, a Jet Pilot and a Rum Barrel. We’ll see how that goes…

Hope you kids all have a great time tonight…whether it’s at your favorite Tiki bar, or in your own home with friends, take a few minutes to remember that no matter how hard times get, no matter how bad things are, a cool and tasty Exotic Cocktail can take you away for a little while.

-Tiki Chris P. reporting from Pirate’s Cove Tiki Bar at Tiki Lounge Talk

Looking for Exotic Cocktail recipes? Check out Tiki Lounge Talk’s

Tiki Drinks Page

For lots of kool, vintage style concoctions.

Shanghai Cocktail: Your Weekend Tiki Bar Drink Recipe

Like the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the whisper of the word “Shanghai” conjures images of a distant past, one of dark, narrow streets filled with underworld characters sneaking into opium dens and harlot-filled nightclubs. A six-month trip on a tramp steamer and there you are in “the Paris of the Orient”, where you take your chances and your life in your hands as you embark on a Noir adventure of mystery and lust.

You step up to the hand-carved bar in The Shanghai Club, and order a

Shanghai Cocktail

from a seedy bartender. He narrows his eyes as he considers the strange American before him, and makes his decision whether to poison you or allow you to live. You slap an American sawbuck on the bartop, and he decides to give you another day.

Shanghai Cocktail Recipe:

1 oz dark rum
1 tsp anisette
1/2 tsp grenadine syrup
juice of 1/4 lemon

Shake ingredients together in a shaker with ice until a frost forms on the outside of the canister. Rim a martini glass with lemon, and strain the cocktail into the glass. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

To make a Shanghai Surprise, set a half ounce of Bacardi 151 aflame and pour into the mixed drink.

-Tiki Chris reporting from the Tiki Bar at Tiki Lounge Talk, the web’s hottest blounge for Tiki Drink Recipies.

More Rum, More Noir - The Rum Noir, Your Weekend Tiki Cocktail

The Rum Noir, a Tiki Lounge Talk original. Kool Tiki mug by Tiki Diablo.

Since the other day was National Rum Day, I had to experiment with a few goodies to see if I could come up with something new. Well kids, I did. First I tried some of the Appleton Estate and El Dorado rums mixed with coke and lime. Now, I know some of you will say this is a big waste of such great rums. But the flavor was unique, dark and really very enjoyable. Equal parts of each rum in a tall glass with ice, add in coke and stir. Add fresh lime a little squeeze at a time.

But it didn’t stop there. I needed to make something my Tiki friends (that’s you) would consider worthy of the drink log. So, after a few experiments…

The Rum Noir

surfaced as the winner.

1 oz Appleton Estate Rum

1 oz El Dorado Demerara Rum

1/4 oz cinnamon schnapps (the hot stuff)

1 oz orange juice

1/2 oz fresh lime juice (adjust to taste)

2-4 drops bitters

Splash of Coke

Put everything into the shaker (except the soda) with ice and shake it up real nice. Pour into a tall Tiki mug with ice, add a splash of coke. Garnish with a lime wedge and orange slice. This recipe is pretty close to a planter’s punch, with a little kick. It’s called the Rum Noir because of the dark rum, and because I invented it while pulling the trigger on the print version of my latest swingin’ book, A Flash of Noir, which is now available in Print, for Kindle and for Nook. Check it out

-Tiki Chris P. reporting from Pirate’s Cove Tiki Bar at Tiki Lounge Talk, the web-lounge for swingin’ chicks and kool vintage hipsters.