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 ...

While Cardinal Spirits celebrates USA Today 10Best awards, Millie McGee's Gosport Diner prepares for America's Best ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though landlocked, San Antonio has found a way to keep that island fantasy afloat by capitalizing on the once forgotten tiki movement (some tiki scholars posit the U.S. involvement during the Vietnam ...

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 ...

Tarantula Tiki Lounge (@Tarantula_Tiki) is going all out this Halloween. The retro-fabulous SoMa cocktail retreat is throwing ...

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 ...