Post #751848 by Kanapapiki on Thu, Oct 1, 2015 6:53 AM

Hello all,

Long time lurker, first post- and after my first Tiki Oasis this year, it's high time I did.

It was a love of vinyl that brought me to this community, but I've always been an unconscious tiki-phile,
being born & bred in the burbs of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Two summers ago, I became interested in Tiki drinks - which led me to seek and/or create some unusual drink ingredients (falernum, pimento dram, spiced syrups, Fassionola, Okolehao)...

And more recently, I'm researching pre-Prohibition cocktails (1803-1919) and thus have been seeking a new set of ingredients
(Old Tom gin, Creme Violette, Boker's bitters, Creme Yvette, Amer Picon, Abbott's bitters, genever from Holland, absinthe from Europe, amaro from Italy, weird fruit brandies etc.).

I'm reading "the classics" and absorbing "vintage mixology" from many sources e.g. The bum, Victor Bergeron, David Wondrich.

I'm building a liquor cabinet for “COCKTAILIAN” research and experimentation.

more soon... see you at Cap City Tiki Crawl this weekend.