Hindsight Tiki Bar - Texas - Home Tiki Bars

E ernimator Tiki Socialite Joined: Jun 02, 2022 Posts: 188	E ernimator Posted posted on Tue, Apr 23, 2024 7:43 AM Well, damn. It hit you hard! That's a big undertaking building an outdoor A-frame. That's not just a little home tiki bar in the corner of your room made from a couple of old bookshelves! (I know somebody that did that out here in CA). Just a warning. A tiki bar is never finished. You're always running across something you can't pass up that you decide you need for your bar. But clutter is good, as far as tiki bars are concerned. Just ask Sven Kirsten, ("Bigbro" on Tiki Central). He wrote what people consider the tiki bible, The Book of Tiki. Also, the tiki revival has driven up tiki mug prices so much in the last ten years. And it's getting harder and harder to find random tiki stuff, like mugs in thrift stores with people being able to sell stuff on eBay. Even places like Salvation Army thrift store will look up stuff online, and sell their better stuff online because they can get more selling it that way than in the store. Stocking your bar with alcohol will be one of your more expensive endeavors. That alcohol stuff can be $$$$expensive$$$. And the secret to making good tiki drinks----YOU MEASURE EVERYTHING! And FRESH FRUITS like lemons and limes!!!! Squeeze your own, don't buy a juice.There are some good books with good recipes and traditional tiki recipes, so follow them exactly. No pours that you count in your head. MEASURE!! Also, if you get the book, THE GROG LOG, not all the drinks in there are good. I've had them all. Hell In The Pacific is aptly named. Watch Spike's Breezeway for good inspiration on making drinks. https://www.youtube.com/@BreezewayCocktailHour/videos Also, there are a lot of "Mai Tai" recipes out there, and some taste pretty darned good. But, a true Mai Tai is the Trader Vics Mai Tai. Also, your friends and family will good heartedly give you stuff that they think is tiki, which will be some cheap party city tiki crap or a "tiki" mug like a Star Wars tiki mug. (I also have a friend who has a bunch of non-traditional "tiki" mugs like that, but he doesn't have a tiki bar, and they are on shelves in his bathroom and kitchen because he has so much science fiction and Disney artwork on his walls, he has no room for them anywhere else) And if you play Jimmy Buffet and have parrots in your bar, tiki traditionalists will call you are a "parrot head". Most importantly HAVE FUN!!! And, invite me to your bar when it's done. [ Edited by ernimator on 2024-04-23 07:52:53 ]

Well, damn. It hit you hard! That's a big undertaking building an outdoor A-frame. That's not just a little home tiki bar in the corner of your room made from a couple of old bookshelves! (I know somebody that did that out here in CA). Just a warning. A tiki bar is never finished. You're always running across something you can't pass up that you decide you need for your bar. But clutter is good, as far as tiki bars are concerned. Just ask Sven Kirsten, ("Bigbro" on Tiki Central). He wrote what people consider the tiki bible, The Book of Tiki.

Also, the tiki revival has driven up tiki mug prices so much in the last ten years. And it's getting harder and harder to find random tiki stuff, like mugs in thrift stores with people being able to sell stuff on eBay. Even places like Salvation Army thrift store will look up stuff online, and sell their better stuff online because they can get more selling it that way than in the store.

Stocking your bar with alcohol will be one of your more expensive endeavors. That alcohol stuff can be $$$$expensive$$$. And the secret to making good tiki drinks----YOU MEASURE EVERYTHING! And FRESH FRUITS like lemons and limes!!!! Squeeze your own, don't buy a juice.There are some good books with good recipes and traditional tiki recipes, so follow them exactly. No pours that you count in your head. MEASURE!! Also, if you get the book, THE GROG LOG, not all the drinks in there are good. I've had them all. Hell In The Pacific is aptly named. Watch Spike's Breezeway for good inspiration on making drinks. https://www.youtube.com/@BreezewayCocktailHour/videos Also, there are a lot of "Mai Tai" recipes out there, and some taste pretty darned good. But, a true Mai Tai is the Trader Vics Mai Tai.

Also, your friends and family will good heartedly give you stuff that they think is tiki, which will be some cheap party city tiki crap or a "tiki" mug like a Star Wars tiki mug. (I also have a friend who has a bunch of non-traditional "tiki" mugs like that, but he doesn't have a tiki bar, and they are on shelves in his bathroom and kitchen because he has so much science fiction and Disney artwork on his walls, he has no room for them anywhere else) And if you play Jimmy Buffet and have parrots in your bar, tiki traditionalists will call you are a "parrot head".

Most importantly HAVE FUN!!! And, invite me to your bar when it's done.

[ Edited by ernimator on 2024-04-23 07:52:53 ]

Post #812605 by ernimator on Tue, Apr 23, 2024 7:43 AM