Post #194855 by Chief Lapu Lapu on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:32 AM

must haves of alcoholic beverages, mixers, etc. to outfit a home tiki bar?

hummmm… Well, when I started I had a few bottles of rum and a couple of bottles of vodka. Now I must have over a hundred bottles of assorted liquors. Some that go fast like Myers and others that last for years... Pernod. To help with shopping for some of your "must haves" I would start with:

Bacardi white (Appleton white if you can get it)
Bacardi gold and 151
Myers's dark
Saint James Extra Old Martinique rum (Kaniche if you can find it)
Mt Gay Extra Old
Lemon Hart Demerara 80 proof and 151
Malibu coconut rum
Alize passion fruit liquor
Maraska maraschino liquor
Orange and blue Curacao (Bols)
Triple Sec (Bols)
Orgeat Almond syrup
Passion Fruit Syrup (both can be purchased online at Trader Vic's. I prefer Aunty Lilikoi's passion fruit syrup since it's the real deal but Vic's will do.)
Falernum (don't bother with Fee Bros and since Sazerac stopped producing .. you may have to make it yourself!)
Ice
Thousands of limes

Well that's a start on the rum drinks alone. I would take Benehune's advice and pick up a Grog Log at Amazon, pick a few drinks that you think you would like and then go shopping for the ingredients. Good luck and take my advice, buy the smallest bottle of Pernod they have.

[ Edited by: Chief Lapu Lapu 2005-10-26 17:34 ]