Post #787821 by Swanky on Tue, Jun 19, 2018 7:25 AM

On 2018-06-18 12:13, tikitube wrote:

On 2018-06-18 08:20, Swanky wrote:
The "DIY Tiki Era" is dead.

I dunno. From where I'm standing (Arkansas), DIY Tiki is all we've got.

:wink:

I'm in TN, so...

Plenty of people are still making and doing themselves, more than ever, I'm just saying there are now people whose profession is whatever "craft" you and I do as a hobby in our spare time. And those people doing it for a living every day are the experts at whatever it is now, not people like you and I who do it as a hobby, whether it's carving, or making syrups.

Not too long ago TC was your best source for info on these "hobbies". Now the professionals are the experts. That's the paradigm change I see.

And there was a time when the Tiki cocktail bloggers were really on the forefront. Their old posts are still great resources. But there are now many books by professionals and many bars run by professionals, designed and decorated by professionals, buying their supplies from professionals... It used to be just us hobbists.