Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 09:53PM The archive of today's SLG Radio Podcast, which featured a discussion with Beachbum Berry, can be heard at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/slgradio/2010/03/11/barside-chat--beachbum-berry-talks-tiki-tropical-d
Give it a listen, it is a very entertaining segment.
DV
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 03:30PM Beeachbum Berry, author of the new Beachbum Berry Remixed book, will be on the SLG Radio call-in podcast this Thursday (March 12) at 2:00 PM PST. He will take your cocktail, tiki and rum questions. Or, he'll just shoot the shit with host Dan Vado. It's up to you.
More info can be found at www.blogtalkradio.com/slgradio
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 04:19PM If you're a professional drinker, or even a serious enthusiast, then you need to take a trip to New Orleans. Nola, as it is commonly known, is part Disneyland, part Mecca for any imbiber of spirits. I've only been to New Orleans once, and it was a memorable visit for a lot of reasons. You can find most of my trip diary on my personal blog site at www.danvado.com, but one of the things that stood out in my mind was my visit to the legendary Pat O'Brien's Bar in the French Quarter.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 06:55PM The last time I was in Hawaii I stayed at the Kea Lani Resort on Maui. One of the things that made the Kea
Lani a kick-ass resort in my mind was that it had a swim-up bar. Upon arriving at the hotel I was able to jump in the pool, swim up to the bar and watch a Stanle Cup Finals game on the TV. If there is an encycolpedia entry somewhere for paradise, this place (or at least the bar) would be in it. The fact that it was Father's Day instantly made it the best Father's Day I have ever had or likely will ever have.
As I sat and watched the game I ordered and drank a variety of things, most of which I can't remember but a hint of what I was downing can be found in the fact that my nickname at the swim-up bar by day two was Gentleman Jack. I made friends with another Kea Lani visitor who drank nothing but Lava Flows.
I usually stay away from complex blender drinks, but this one looked particularly appealing, so I ordered one, or several, during the course of my stay. Maybe it was the setting, maybe it was the fact that any drink consumed in a swim-up bar tastes that much better, but this was one of the best Lava Flows I have ever had. It did not taste like an ice cream sundae, but neither was it overly boozy. I watched the bartneder make this drink countless times and this is what I came away with.
INGREDIENTS
Notice that there is no Malibu Rum in this recipe. If you have never had it, Malibu Rum is a coconut flavored rum that has more in common with your average bottle of suntan lotion than it does an actual alcohol. Maybe this is the rum you por over ice cream for small children so mom and dad can have some quiet "Us Time" on a Friday night. Who knows, I hate the stuff. Most of the time you see this drink done mostly with Malibu Rum, which is why I must hate it.
Anyway, no Malibu, as a matter of fact I did not see a bottle of Malibu anywhere in the bar area at the Kea Lani. To make a lava flow do the following
Blend the rum, 1/2 oz. of coconut cream and the strawberries in a blender until you have a nice smooth paste. Pour this mixture into a tall glass, a pint glass will work too.
Back to the blender, rinse it out and blend the banana, the rest of the coconut cream, and the pineapple juice r with crushed ice until that mixture is nice and smooth. Pour this mixture into the glass with the rums very slowly and watch as the strawberry mixture oozes its way to the top along the sides of the glass creating the flowing lava effect. As an extra kick the bartender did a small float of Myers on top.
Anyway, that was, as I said, one of the best Father's Day weekends I have ever had.
kea lani resort, lava flow, maui, rum Friday, January 15, 2010 at 06:00PM Yes, I know, we need to get this back into print. Yes, I know, there was a rumor floating around that Taboo Table, the tiki cookbook by Beachbum Berry would be back in print early part of January. Yes, sometimes we do indeed have a buzzard's luck.
But, have no fear, Tabboo Table is indeed going to be back in print, but the new ship date for the second printing is now the last week of February, so we should start seeing copies out to Amazon the first week of March. Our apologies for the delay, unforeseen holiday issues and some other stuff just got in the way.
So, DO NOT pay $75 for this thing on eBay or Amazon. Unless, of course, you need it now.
