There’s an aphorism in cocktails: The more ingredients a drink has, the less likely it will be great. Tiki is what happens when you take something garish and baroque and decide to lean in. Your ...

Real talk: The best rum drinks are tiki drinks. Especially when getting drunk is the whole point. Various rums, citrus-forward fruit juices, and tropical spices combine to make high-alcohol drinks ...

Critics often bash them as “umbrella drinks,” which can be code for “syrupy sweet” and “excessively showy.” But true cocktail-lovers know there’s more to them than that. We call them “tiki” drinks, ...

Even in drinking circles, Todd Thrasher is something of a unicorn. The first cocktail he drank, a rum and cola, never made him sick. The absence of a stomach-churning origin story is at least in part ...

Claire Fieberg grew up going to Hawaii with her parents, whom she describes as “kind of avid tiki people.” They went to Maui mostly, but also Kauai and the Big Island. “From a very young age, I was ...

The Painkiller isn’t a particularly good drink. Well, that’s not exactly right. Painkillers can be pretty good, it’s the Painkiller™ that isn’t a particularly good drink. To explain: The Painkiller is ...

Tiki drinks have had a major resurgence in the 21st century. Although the uninitiated may still think of those neon-colored, sickly sweet, umbrella-topped concoctions served up at all-inclusive ...

The large smokestack rising above the Potomac River with the words "Make Rum Not War" brightly emblazoned upon it might initially seem like guerilla street art in protest to politics eternally brewing ...

Whether you’re a mai tai maven or a daiquiri die-hard, rum is the spirit that makes those tropical cocktails sing. Now here’s your chance to sip your way through 40 — or at least a sampling drawn from ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Frankie Little with Roosters joined us in the kitchen to make their signature Mobile Tiki Week dish, a rum ham sandwich! Warm smoked ham with rum glaze. Grill the pineapple and ...

For some New Orleanians, tiki inspiration and ambience reached their pinnacle at the Bali Ha'i at Pontchartrain Beach. Guests were welcomed with leis and may have heard Martin Denny's "Quiet Village," ...