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Beachbum Berry's Intoxica!
The all-new companion volume to Beachbum Berry's Grog Log.
Elixirs Exotica! More 'lost' recipes from the Golden Age of the tiki bar from the Polynesian pop scholar and mixologist Jeff Berry, co-author of the widely-praised Beachbum Berry's Grog Log, dubbed "the best bar guide for tropical drinks ever published" by Joe Bob Briggs.
Packed with vintage graphics on every page, and everything you need to know about making the perfect tropical drink. With additional commentary from Berry, and a cover by renowned tiki artist Bosko.
Elixirs Exotica! More 'lost' recipes from the Golden Age of the tiki bar from the Polynesian pop scholar and mixologist Jeff Berry, co-author of the widely-praised Beachbum Berry's Grog Log, dubbed "the best bar guide for tropical drinks ever published" by Joe Bob Briggs.
Packed with vintage graphics on every page, and everything you need to know about making the perfect tropical drink. With additional commentary from Berry, and a cover by renowned tiki artist Bosko.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Jeff Beachbum Berry
7 books41 followersOne of Imbibe magazine’s “25 Most Influential Cocktail Personalities of the Past Century” and one of The Daily Meal’s “60 Coolest People in Food & Drink,” Jeff “Beachbum” Berry is the author of six books on vintage Tiki drinks and cuisine, which Los Angeles magazine dubbed “the keys to the tropical kingdom.” Esquire calls him “one of the instigators of the cocktail revolution” and Food & Wine “one of the world’s leading rum experts,” while Las Vegas magazine cites him as “one of the world’s leading mixologists.” Jeff’s been profiled in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Wine Enthusiast magazine, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Florida Sun-Sentinel; he’s also been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Every Day with Rachael Ray, as well as on PBS Television, the Travel Channel, National Public Radio, and Martha Stewart Living Radio.
“A hybrid of street-smart gumshoe, anthropologist and mixologist” (The Los Angeles Times) and “the Indiana Jones of Tiki drinks” (The New York Times), Jeff has co-created Total Tiki for iPad and iPhone, a drink recipe app which Macworld magazine calls “beautifully rendered and, thanks to Berry’s tireless reporting, impeccably sourced.” He’s also co-created a line of Tiki barware with Cocktail Kingdom, which Imbibe hails as “especially notable because it revives old styles of essential glassware that were previously almost impossible to find.”
Jeff’s original cocktail recipes have been printed in publications around the world, from Bon Appetit and Fine Cooking magazines to such books as World’s Best Cocktails and the venerable Mr. Boston Official Bartenders Guide. And now his drinks are being served at his restaurant in New Orleans, Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29, which the New Orleans Advocate calls “a treasure chest of the tastes and attitude that first made Tiki so popular, curated by someone uniquely qualified for the task”; in its first year, Latitude 29 made the “best” lists of Playboy, Esquire, and New Orleans magazines.
Jeff has written for Saveur and Caribbean Travel & Life magazines, and has conducted tropical drink seminars and tastings across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.
“A hybrid of street-smart gumshoe, anthropologist and mixologist” (The Los Angeles Times) and “the Indiana Jones of Tiki drinks” (The New York Times), Jeff has co-created Total Tiki for iPad and iPhone, a drink recipe app which Macworld magazine calls “beautifully rendered and, thanks to Berry’s tireless reporting, impeccably sourced.” He’s also co-created a line of Tiki barware with Cocktail Kingdom, which Imbibe hails as “especially notable because it revives old styles of essential glassware that were previously almost impossible to find.”
Jeff’s original cocktail recipes have been printed in publications around the world, from Bon Appetit and Fine Cooking magazines to such books as World’s Best Cocktails and the venerable Mr. Boston Official Bartenders Guide. And now his drinks are being served at his restaurant in New Orleans, Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29, which the New Orleans Advocate calls “a treasure chest of the tastes and attitude that first made Tiki so popular, curated by someone uniquely qualified for the task”; in its first year, Latitude 29 made the “best” lists of Playboy, Esquire, and New Orleans magazines.
Jeff has written for Saveur and Caribbean Travel & Life magazines, and has conducted tropical drink seminars and tastings across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.
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August 8, 2022
Another great, simple guide from one of the new kings of Tiki. Extremely informational in its approach to set up and acquisition of materials. All around great guide for newbies.
Recipes look delicious. Lovely Lovely packs one hell of a punch…
Recipes look delicious. Lovely Lovely packs one hell of a punch…
April 14, 2026
This is more of a straight-up recipe book than the Grog Log. Still with great photos. It has a section of modern recipes that often have that predictable modern level of complexity,,,beyond the many rums that Tiki recipes can call for.
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