The Cocktail Lovers

JUNE 11, 2025

Last year Baba au Rum celebrated 15 years since opening its doors. Thanos, let’s go back to the beginning and what first attracted you to the cocktail world? That was my first touch with cocktail culture, making classics like Martinis, Manhattans and B52s. It was partly about wine but also cocktails.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Almost any pre-Prohibition cocktail’s original specs mostly hover around the three-to-four-ingredient range. By the time the tiki craze was underway in the ‘30s and ‘40s, it was par for the course to see drinks containing over seven ingredients and multiple expressions of rum layered on top of one another. Why the hell not?

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Bartending Bartender Tiki Tinctures 104

Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

In today’s craft cocktail culture, being forward-thinking with your drink program is important. For example, if you are a tiki bar, then you want your menu to reflect cocktails, liquors, beers, and flavors that match a tropical and Caribbean theme, i.e. rums and frozen drinks.

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VinePair

AUGUST 1, 2024

For years, much of American cocktail culture treated rum as little more than a summertime spirit or a match for Coke and ginger beer. is embracing rums in every facet. With this in mind, bartenders and beverage directors have grown increasingly interested in the new and small-batch rums popping up on shelves.

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Cocktails with Suderman

JULY 12, 2024

But the area has its own cocktail culture too, and that culture reflects the region’s sensibility: It’s tropically inclined and tiki-influenced, but sillier, more absurd, more ridiculous, more over-the-top. Inevitably, that means a lot of Miller Lite and tequila shots.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Cocktail culture is strong, and is probably about as strong as its been in the last 10 years, says Mat Snapp, a partner in Barter and Shake, the consultancy behind Phoenixs award-winning concept bar, Century Grand. UnderTow is a tiki bar with tropical drinks. Its a promising playlist.

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Good Spirits News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

There are spirits and then theres spirit, and El Guapo embodies bothin no small part because the leader of the brand, Christa Cotton, came of age in a craft cocktail culture ripe with creativity. Quite festive and a great bitters for whiskies, anjeo tequilas, dark rums and tiki inspired cocktails. Really well done.

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