10 Essential Tiki Cocktail Ingredients for Home

Finally seeing this video and I impressed my husband because I have all but 2 of these items, just by watching your other videos. Grapefruit and one of the rums. However I did have other Hamilton rums not mentioned so I think I did great. 🎉

$120 for the Breezeway Barrel? Come on man!

where Da Guava ???

IF you want to make a LOT of professional mixologists mad at you, you should discuss the 20% saline solution. A few drops of this little-known salt water solution will elevate almost ANY cocktail, and particularly makes fruity drinks "pop"...

How about Clements Creole Shrub

So glad I have found your content. My grandpa had an awesome tiki bar (house) that got ruined in a remodel. Collecting slowing to build the ultimate escape experience. You all might want to check out Dead Man’s Isle in Astoria Oregon. Great newer tiki bar that has an art studio Nextdoor where the owners parents create awesome tiki cups and art. It is an excellent experience if you haven’t been

That's so weird I stumbled upon your video. I wasn't going to go and buy all that allspice stuff cuz I don't know if I'm going to like it but the one thing I did. Bought a juicer and I knew that the base element of a good drink is the flavor and makes it so fresh. From sure that over time I'll end up buying those odds and ends😂

My mom, when she was making annual trips to Jamaica, some 20 to 30 years ago, would regularly bring me back special rum and drink related treats. One year she brought me back something I had never heard of before, and that was the Wray and Nephew allspice dram. This was long before I got into Tiki drinks and I had no idea what it was supposed to be used for, but I thought it was delicious. I would add a splash to my run and Cokes and it would add that special touch. I still have the bottle and have just fairly recently discovered what I can use it in 🍹

I make my own all spice dram for pennies on the dollar. It does take curing time, but well worth it! I use a recipe I found on line.

I have learned so much from your videos. I set up a micro tiki bar for Christmas

Plantation rums are great for it's price. Plantation 3 stars, OD, Stigin's fancy, and OFTD

Great video.

Nice breakdown!

I wonder if people watching on their phones or computers get the same experience that I do... Those brief, super low bass notes that you add during certain points really hit me in my soul. 😂

Question... I struggle with this when recipes call for honey syrup. Am I just supposed to assume that it's a one to one syrup? I think there are recipes that need a two to one, or even a three to one honey syrup. Syrup. What is the standard?? Thanks.

new subscriber. your tiki bar is beautiful!

New to the channel, I loved the list! Depending on where you live - some of the syrups can be made from scratch as well.

Great list! Was glad to see bitters made it in at the end 😊

You should please please do a follow up video to this that has 5 tiki drinks you can make with these ingredients.

I was a bartender for ten years. Angostura Bitters is spot on.

Passion fruit syrup tastes like a DUMPSTER.

A very shmexy dumpster 😏

John D Taylor's Falernum. A subtle flavor of ginger and lime, and a thick mouthfeel of snot.

> ...memorial of my dog, Astro.

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Great list, I especially like yhe simple boil down into 3 rums. Living in a country where alcohol is very heavily taxed (havana club 3 costs about $75 per liter) it can save me a lot to only buy a handful. Also good to have specific recommendations on what's versatile enough to go in a lot of cocktails.
As for angostura bitters, yes, use them. They are basically the pepper of cocktails, they elevate almost everything in the roght amount.

Where is this list of 300 cocktails at? I want to get started!

If you haven't tried it yet, throw some dashes of Angostura on some vanilla ice cream!

Any chance you can replicate some classics but nonalcoholic?

I always have Barenjagers Honey liqueur on hand. When A cocktail calls for honey syrup I use he honey liqueur instead. The honey syrup I make/have made... I use Round Rock Honey's Orange Cinnamon Honey(Valencia orange oil and pure cinnamon leaf oil to give a wonderful burst of natural orange & cinnamon flavor)

I've been making my own passionfruit syrup by making a simple syrup (1 cup) and throwing that in a blender with frozen passionfruit pieces (1/4 cup or so.) Works great. Keeps in the fridge for 2-3 weeks. Shake well before using.

Also, Dole pineapple juice works ok, but it can vary wildly in its sweetness. Best to taste it first and see if it is too tart. If so add a bar spoon or two of simple. Trader Joe's pineapple juice in cans is more consistent in its sweetness levels. Good stuff.

I’ve been fortunate to experience the Philippine rhum Tanduay dark. Have you tried ?

You should have a conversation with a tree expert. I bet you could have them come out and splice in.(for lack of a better word.) orange, grapefruit limbs to grow off of your tree. You might even be able to do all the citrus fruits.

I have seen at my local nursery trees that actually have lemons, oranges, and limes, all growing on the same tree

Umm….curaçao? You’ll need it just to make a basic ‘44 Mai Tai, so I would have put it instead of the pimiento dram. Great video though! :-)

I think you mean to say use cartons of pressed juice as opposed to juice from concentrate.

Great top ten…I would then add Cinnamon syrup and demerara syrup as the next must haves, then Fassionola

Great list and video. Thanks. Betraying my tropical roots, i'd put in a vote for cream of coconut.

Great list! What about Coconut Cream? Needed for a Painkiller, love it!

Great starter list for a home tiki coctail list. As for the syrups: Be aware that honey begins to spoil as soon as you add water, so it has maybe a 2 week shelf life. Save money by making your own grenadine and orgeat. Here's recipes I use: Grenadine: 1C Pomegranate Juice (POM is best) + 1C Granulated Sugar + 1/4 tsp Rose Water (Cold mix to disolve) Orgeat: 1C Unsweetend Almond Milk (Trader Joe's) + 1C Granulated Sugar (Heat to disolve), then add 1/4 oz Almond Extract + 3/4 tsp Orange Flower Water + 1/4 tsp Rose Water.

Another fantastic video Sensei-Spike! As soon as my son moves out, Tiki Bar goes in! Cheers brother!

this video was sooooooo useful. thanks!!😍

LOL! You forgot mint. Great show!

For those of us without a white grapefruit tree, pickings’ are slim in the markets. I’ve had to settle on small cans. 😢 been using the “no sugar added” Ocean Spray.

Enjoy your videos, but can't tolerant alcohol.

I tried to prove the 300 cocktails, all I proved is you wake up on the floor with a sore head wanting to know what happened to your clothes. And why am I in an elevator ?

Too late for naming our first-born, but we were already subscribed anyway. 🙂 My wife and I saw your live "pre-release" show for the first time last night, and really enjoyed it. Well, except her horror and dismay that I was making my smart-alec remarks using her moniker. Social media foul! And now I gotta get an Instagram login. Time marches on. Anyway, enjoyed this show, and miss the bloopers. 🙂

Got to have my Orange Curaçao liqueur for my Mai Tai

Dude I love these last two videos you made, keep more content like this coming! I always enjoy other people’s opinions when it comes to Tiki 😊

Trader Joe’s fresh tangerine juice 10/10 recommend. Great in place of OJ in painkillers. Really makes the drink sing.

One thing it would be nice to say is that some of the things are simple to make, like grenadine, orgeat, felernum, maybe you could show how they are made.

Hamilton Black > Meyers/Coruba

Good video Bacardi 8 has been my go to rum for many years. It's one that's always in the liquor stores in my area.

Great List and Great information I appreciate you doing this video since I know nothing (yet!) Do you have any information or maybe a video I haven't found about storing these ingredients, what needs to be refrigerated, and what can be kept in a cabinet, and how long these home made items will last? TIA and thanks again for making these videos!

I think the citrus could have been combined into one and add fassionola is place of one of them. Great episode!