Post #408349 by Humuhumu on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 8:59 AM

I think I've probably seen a good dozen tropical drink books, own about half of them, and in my opinion the only ones worth cracking the spine on are Beachbum Berry's. Buy all of them, and don't bother with the others (when it comes to tropical drink recipes, anyway).

Beyond the world of books, there are a whole mess of cocktail bloggers out there who are doing great work with tropical cocktails. While a book is a lot easier to have with you at the bar, the advantage of the blog format is that they can get in-depth on the process of making each cocktail, talking about each ingredient, alternatives for hard-to-find ingredients, tricks they've picked up, etc -- plus, you can ask questions via the comments. Both tikimonkey & Melintur (TCers) have great mixology blogs that center mostly on tropicals, and if you dig into their blogrolls you'll find a bunch more:

http://tdif.brotherhoodofif.com - Melintur's blog, Tiki Drinks and Indigo Firmaments
http://www.tradertiki.com - tikimonkey's blog, Trader Tiki's Booze Blog