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Beachbum Berry Remixed: A Gallery of Tiki Drinks
[This book combines & updates two previous books, Beachbum Berry's Grog Log and Beachbum Berry's Intoxica!.]
The global Tiki Drink revival is in full swing. But without Beachbum Berry's Grog Log and Beachbum Berry's Intoxica!, there'd be nothing to drink. These two groundbreaking books revealed the top-secret, never-before-published, "lost" exotic drink recipes from Tiki's original midcentury heyday.
Author Jeff Berry has unearthed a lot more recipes since his first two books, and picked up a lot more drink lore too. He's spilling it all in Beachbum Berry Remixed, a completely revised and updated anthology of the Grog Log and Intoxica!, featuring 40 newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage Tiki drink recipes from the 1930s-1960s, 38 of the best new recipes from today's Tiki revival (gathered especially for Remixed from the world's top mixologists and cocktail writers), and expanded drink history and lore, incorporating newly discovered information about the origins of the Mai Tai, Zombie, Suffering Bastard, and other legendary Tiki mysteries.
The global Tiki Drink revival is in full swing. But without Beachbum Berry's Grog Log and Beachbum Berry's Intoxica!, there'd be nothing to drink. These two groundbreaking books revealed the top-secret, never-before-published, "lost" exotic drink recipes from Tiki's original midcentury heyday.
Author Jeff Berry has unearthed a lot more recipes since his first two books, and picked up a lot more drink lore too. He's spilling it all in Beachbum Berry Remixed, a completely revised and updated anthology of the Grog Log and Intoxica!, featuring 40 newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage Tiki drink recipes from the 1930s-1960s, 38 of the best new recipes from today's Tiki revival (gathered especially for Remixed from the world's top mixologists and cocktail writers), and expanded drink history and lore, incorporating newly discovered information about the origins of the Mai Tai, Zombie, Suffering Bastard, and other legendary Tiki mysteries.
248 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2009
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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 30, 2020
Full of recipes and directions for amazing drinks. It is pretty exhaustive as it puts books together to make it a huge bible.
One thing is the kindle version is poorly made and unsearchable. It’s almost unreadable like this.
I like the illustration and histories. It’s a pretty volume.
I don’t like the way the rums are broken up. The Smugglers Cove book is far better at describing types of rum by style and location. Saying use a Jamaican rum is really vague. Also Cointreau is used often. Seems like I’m making margaritas. I have to try some more before I can be too negative.
This is a great recipe book.
I hope the app is as good as the video says. I will try it.
One thing is the kindle version is poorly made and unsearchable. It’s almost unreadable like this.
I like the illustration and histories. It’s a pretty volume.
I don’t like the way the rums are broken up. The Smugglers Cove book is far better at describing types of rum by style and location. Saying use a Jamaican rum is really vague. Also Cointreau is used often. Seems like I’m making margaritas. I have to try some more before I can be too negative.
This is a great recipe book.
I hope the app is as good as the video says. I will try it.
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June 24, 2020Sippin' Safari gave more history, this focuses more on drink recipes, although it maintains Berry's maddening habit of scattering recipes throughout the text instead of organizing them in an appendix.
January 3, 2021
This review is for the Kindle edition.
Content: classic tiki drinks by the master revivalist. 5 stars for content.
Format: Kindle version is terrible. Unreadable small text cannot be enlarged on a Kindle Fire or an the Kindle app. 1 star.
Content: classic tiki drinks by the master revivalist. 5 stars for content.
Format: Kindle version is terrible. Unreadable small text cannot be enlarged on a Kindle Fire or an the Kindle app. 1 star.
August 8, 2025
If Sippin' Safari is the book on tiki drinks and their history, this book is where it all started - a piece of tiki history itself.
Here we have a compendium of the first two collections of tiki cocktail recipes Berry published back in 1998, with additional recipes added for the 2010 remix. In contrast to Sippin' Safari's detailed history and profiles of those behind the bar, this book is very recipe heavy with 2-3 recipes per page. The density is appreciated, and it doesn't suffer from a lack of history and stories either. Nearly every drink gets a short glimpse into its creator or the restaurant behind it and what they brought to the tiki scene of the day.
Here we have a compendium of the first two collections of tiki cocktail recipes Berry published back in 1998, with additional recipes added for the 2010 remix. In contrast to Sippin' Safari's detailed history and profiles of those behind the bar, this book is very recipe heavy with 2-3 recipes per page. The density is appreciated, and it doesn't suffer from a lack of history and stories either. Nearly every drink gets a short glimpse into its creator or the restaurant behind it and what they brought to the tiki scene of the day.
June 12, 2018
An omnibus volume collecting Jeff "Beachbum" Berry's two excellent cocktail recipe books, Grog Log and Intoxica! Berry's persistence and research uncovered many of the vintage tiki cocktail recipes once thought lost and helped usher in the tiki bar renaissance. Not all of the drinks contained here are actually good (it's history, warts and all) but a lot of them are and the layered complexity of flavors found in some of the standouts are truly special. For anyone interested in home mixology, learning about cocktails or the history of tiki bars in general, Remixed is a great starting point.
December 22, 2017
Everything you ever wanted to know about dozens of classic tiki drinks in one volume compiled by the bum himself. You can't go wrong with this one. Beachbum Berry is also a heck of a nice guy - go check out his Latitude 29 establishment in New Orleans and sample the cocktail menu. You will not regret it!
August 6, 2018
This is a combined set that includes the Beachbum’s GROG LOG and INTOXICA! Plus we get the bonus of some updates and reference material. A critical collection of recipes and historical record.
August 9, 2018
Jeff Berry is the real deal. Laid back. The drinks are fun too.
July 22, 2020
An amazing collection of fabulous recipes and insights into all things tiki.
September 1, 2020
Book content is great. Top notch. The problem is the paper in this format kind of sucks. It's not glossy and I believe caused the print not to be crisp.
September 20, 2020
Must read & own book for any serious Tiki drink aficionado. Great collection of recipes and lots of interesting history & tidbits.
January 28, 2021
must-have guide to tiki
March 27, 2015
A great book that combines two of the authors previous books about Tiki culture and drinks.
The author attempts to investigate and reproduce classic Tiki recipes from Americana's Polynesian obsession of decades past. So, do you want to know who invented the Mai Tai? The exact recipe for a Zombie? This book will try and answer some of those questions (or get drunk trying).
The book succeeds in it's objectives. Many classic Tiki recipes are presented with their original ingredients although the author does suggest improvements here and there. The research is thorough and the writer has an engaging style that is opinionated and funny.
As well as recreations of classic recipes (many lost or not previously published) there are also presentations of new Tiki-influenced recipes.
I've tested a few of the recipes and they stack up well and work well (and are pretty tasty!). Mixing techniques from the past are different from modern techniques and I think this shows in the results. That said, the reader has two choices - copy the classics or put your own spin on it.
The book is beautiful and the artwork and presentation is amazing. Every drink photograph and the narrative associated with the recipe makes you want to drink it. The art direction turns this from a list of recipes to something I will look at again and again.
The book is quite specific about what kinds of alcohol are needed for each drink with more rums than you can count. This means if you followed each recipe exactly your wallet could take a hit pretty quickly. The book is aimed at an American audience which does ensure some ingredients be harder (though in some cases easier) to acquire at a reasonable price.
I also like the fact that the author is opinionated - I don't always share his opinions but I love cocktail books that nail their colours to the mast rather than reproduce a list of drinks they've perhaps never even drunk. What is clear is that the Beachbum knows his stuff and is clear about what he likes. For this reason I find him a voice to be trusted. Before I'd even finished this one I bought another two books by the author.
Great stuff.
The author attempts to investigate and reproduce classic Tiki recipes from Americana's Polynesian obsession of decades past. So, do you want to know who invented the Mai Tai? The exact recipe for a Zombie? This book will try and answer some of those questions (or get drunk trying).
The book succeeds in it's objectives. Many classic Tiki recipes are presented with their original ingredients although the author does suggest improvements here and there. The research is thorough and the writer has an engaging style that is opinionated and funny.
As well as recreations of classic recipes (many lost or not previously published) there are also presentations of new Tiki-influenced recipes.
I've tested a few of the recipes and they stack up well and work well (and are pretty tasty!). Mixing techniques from the past are different from modern techniques and I think this shows in the results. That said, the reader has two choices - copy the classics or put your own spin on it.
The book is beautiful and the artwork and presentation is amazing. Every drink photograph and the narrative associated with the recipe makes you want to drink it. The art direction turns this from a list of recipes to something I will look at again and again.
The book is quite specific about what kinds of alcohol are needed for each drink with more rums than you can count. This means if you followed each recipe exactly your wallet could take a hit pretty quickly. The book is aimed at an American audience which does ensure some ingredients be harder (though in some cases easier) to acquire at a reasonable price.
I also like the fact that the author is opinionated - I don't always share his opinions but I love cocktail books that nail their colours to the mast rather than reproduce a list of drinks they've perhaps never even drunk. What is clear is that the Beachbum knows his stuff and is clear about what he likes. For this reason I find him a voice to be trusted. Before I'd even finished this one I bought another two books by the author.
Great stuff.
July 4, 2013
This is the essential guide to tiki drinks, hands down. Real recipes from the heyday of the Polynesian culture craze, using real ingredients, not a bunch of flavored corn syrups. These recipes are fresh, delicious, and sure to please. Exhaustively researched, filled with great stories and super cool examples of retro art from back in the day.
After you've gotten a basic bartender's guide, get this book and "Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails" by Ted Haigh, and you won't believe the difference it will make in your mixology game.
After you've gotten a basic bartender's guide, get this book and "Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails" by Ted Haigh, and you won't believe the difference it will make in your mixology game.
August 26, 2011
What a fantastic book. Not only does it contain mind blowing cocktail recipes but enough history about them and / or the people who created them to make you feel as if you didn't actually just read a book about cocktails. Well written. Did I mention that the drinks are insanely good?
July 12, 2011
This book is AWESOME!!!
November 16, 2013
I now have a lot more rum in my house but it's been fun. Be careful with the zombies!
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