"Building a Tiki Experience - What's important, and how to do it?" - General Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Fri, Mar 10, 2017 9:13 PM I'm going to offer a ridiculous tourist perspective you shouldn't listen to... The concept of alcohol tasting good is still relatively new to me. I spent most of my life teetotalling, so the importance of the cocktails is peripheral to me personally. I like the concept of drink "balance" though. I've been to a few places where I felt a drink would be better if it was weaker on the alcohol. But to be totally honest, most of my drink choices are made based on the souvenir mug that comes with it. I'll sit through a cocktail to get a cool mug. I like Tiki in general, anytime, but what I find most appealing are bars with a hook to them. I like the Disney ones because they're chock full of Disney references and effects. I like Sip-n-Dip because it has mermaids. I love looking at the home bars here that are themed beyond simply Tiki. It may just be because I like my Tiki best when it's either hyper-anthropologically accurate or high-fantasy "Enchanted Tiki" with mermaids, sunken ships, giant apes, krakens, dinosaurs, Swiss family treehouses, etc. So if you make an engaging, distinctive bar with some neat hook and nice mugs, I'm in!

I'm going to offer a ridiculous tourist perspective you shouldn't listen to...

The concept of alcohol tasting good is still relatively new to me. I spent most of my life teetotalling, so the importance of the cocktails is peripheral to me personally. I like the concept of drink "balance" though. I've been to a few places where I felt a drink would be better if it was weaker on the alcohol. But to be totally honest, most of my drink choices are made based on the souvenir mug that comes with it. I'll sit through a cocktail to get a cool mug.

I like Tiki in general, anytime, but what I find most appealing are bars with a hook to them. I like the Disney ones because they're chock full of Disney references and effects. I like Sip-n-Dip because it has mermaids. I love looking at the home bars here that are themed beyond simply Tiki. It may just be because I like my Tiki best when it's either hyper-anthropologically accurate or high-fantasy "Enchanted Tiki" with mermaids, sunken ships, giant apes, krakens, dinosaurs, Swiss family treehouses, etc.

So if you make an engaging, distinctive bar with some neat hook and nice mugs, I'm in!

Post #773933 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Fri, Mar 10, 2017 9:13 PM