Interesting web site: www.cocktaildb.com - Tiki Drinks and Food

D Dr.Cocktail Member Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 7	D Dr.Cocktail Posted posted on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 9:35 PM Hi all, I'd like to gab with you a little bit about the Internet Cocktail Database because it's my baby! First a little intro: Sven Kirsten is a dear friend of mine who alerted me to your fine forums some time ago. We started out, both film biz folks, vying to see who'd get their drink-oriented book published first, and Svenski won - in a BIG way! He did a great thing for pop culture historians everywhere. He beat Jeff Berry (another bud) and Jeff beat me too. Doh! Actually I was thrilled for them, and now we are all together in das boot. My point is, I am not uneducated about realms tiki, be it culture or cocktails. But here's the thing about CocktailDB... we take all of our recipes from legit published sources, and though in most cases you can't see them when you view the recipe, they are known by the database. Our initial launch has the content of a BUNCH of books, mostly just post-prohibition, but also recipes from the 70s that caught us up to a certain point. We are dead serious about adding more recipes, book-by-book, and I AM aware that our tiki-oriented drinks just slightly land this side of sucking. I want to input barguides that have a better clue about excellent tiki drinks, but it just is going to take more time. We are simply neck-deep in corrections now! Because of our charter, (only legitimately published recipes) we can't just change the formulae we have in there, but we can take your suggestions about tropical drink books you feel get the recipes RIGHT. Chances are we have them; all you have to do is suggest. I have Vic's '47 guide and his '72. I have the Bum's 2 drink guides (and I wrote liner notes for his upcoming tiki food book, but that's another story) and I have Chas. Schumann's Tropical Bar Book. You tell me - which should be first to satisfy tiki aficianados? Every drink book has its challenges because unlike the printed editions, ours are scalable by glass size and the ingredients link to our definitions. It's tough work because all these books tell us their recipes in different ways. That's why we seem as slow as Trader Vic's grenadine when it comes to updates.Just stick with us. We're on YOUR side. Thanks! --Doc.

Hi all, I'd like to gab with you a little bit about the Internet Cocktail Database because it's my baby! First a little intro: Sven Kirsten is a dear friend of mine who alerted me to your fine forums some time ago. We started out, both film biz folks, vying to see who'd get their drink-oriented book published first, and Svenski won - in a BIG way! He did a great thing for pop culture historians everywhere. He beat Jeff Berry (another bud) and Jeff beat me too. Doh! Actually I was thrilled for them, and now we are all together in das boot. My point is, I am not uneducated about realms tiki, be it culture or cocktails. But here's the thing about CocktailDB... we take all of our recipes from legit published sources, and though in most cases you can't see them when you view the recipe, they are known by the database. Our initial launch has the content of a BUNCH of books, mostly just post-prohibition, but also recipes from the 70s that caught us up to a certain point. We are dead serious about adding more recipes, book-by-book, and I AM aware that our tiki-oriented drinks just slightly land this side of sucking. I want to input barguides that have a better clue about excellent tiki drinks, but it just is going to take more time. We are simply neck-deep in corrections now! Because of our charter, (only legitimately published recipes) we can't just change the formulae we have in there, but we can take your suggestions about tropical drink books you feel get the recipes RIGHT. Chances are we have them; all you have to do is suggest. I have Vic's '47 guide and his '72. I have the Bum's 2 drink guides (and I wrote liner notes for his upcoming tiki food book, but that's another story) and I have Chas. Schumann's Tropical Bar Book. You tell me - which should be first to satisfy tiki aficianados?

Every drink book has its challenges because unlike the printed editions, ours are scalable by glass size and the ingredients link to our definitions. It's tough work because all these books tell us their recipes in different ways. That's why we seem as slow as Trader Vic's grenadine when it comes to updates.Just stick with us. We're on YOUR side.

Thanks! --Doc.

Post #121708 by Dr.Cocktail on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 9:35 PM