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SideBlog: Selling Tiki Stuff: Cheeky Tiki

Doug — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:14:33 +0000

Cheeky Tiki. Among the places I’ve bought from, or want to buy from. This one is a British retailer.

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SideBlog: Making Tiki Stuff: Royal Tiki

Doug — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:01:16 +0000

Royal Tiki. Among the places I’ve bought from, or want to buy from.

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SideBlog: Blender Drink Aficionados Booking For Europe With Spare Luggage Space

Doug — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:53:50 +0000

Blender drink aficionados should book a flight to Europe, bring extra luggage space. The “Silent Blender” is here, er, there.

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The Bar Accessory The EVERY Cocktail Geek Must Obtain

Doug — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:14:07 +0000

A review of the Polar Ice Tray, the single most essential bar tool the home cocktail geek should have.

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Unique Tiki Mugs

Doug — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:25:24 +0000

Custom Tiki mugs from ElizabethJeanCreations.

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New Blog Function

Doug — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:08:26 +0000

Adding a way to find glassware or Tiki mugs I use in posts where possible… by popular demand!

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SideBlog: A Really Clever, Easy IKEA Home Bar

Doug — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:06:03 +0000

A clever, easy home bar hack using IKEA stuff. The comments on IKEAHacker posts are often very helpful and insightful too.

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SideBlog: New York Post Notices February is a Good Time For Tiki Month

Doug — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:23:55 +0000

The New York Post notices that February is a good time to get your Tiki on. They must read this blog, or something.

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SideBlog: Basement Bars Are Helm’s Deep For Men

Doug — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:46:20 +0000

Basement Bars Are Helm’s Deep For Men. An interesting article on a species endangered by society’s destruction of its habitat: Men.

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Basement Bar Design News: The Wall Street Journal Notices That Home Bars Are “In”

Doug — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:12:50 +0000

A recent Wall Street Journal article leads me to a discussion of why we build Basement or Home Bars, and the value we can get out of them.

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Basement Bar Design: Star Trek Doors

Doug — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:51:40 +0000

I’ve written often that your basement bar, for maximum coolness, needs a hook or two. Said hooks ought to be in keeping with your own personality, and the design of your bar. They could be as simple as a piece or two of nice artwork, or a pool table. If you are higher up on [...]

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Basement Bar Accessories #10: The NewAir Portable Ice Maker

Doug — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:44:49 +0000

The Liquor Fairy brings me many things, not just booze. But his little wings were beating mightily this week as he flew up with a box from Air & Water, Inc. The box contained a new model portable ice making machine called the NewAir Portable Ice Maker. The current model is more sleekly trimmed than [...]

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Basement Bar Accessories: Herbal Assault Part 1

Doug — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:17:56 +0000

OK folks, I’m going to take the risk of starting a series of posts that will stretch out over a series of weeks before it goes anywhere. I’ve always avoided multi-part posts because, well, I always assume I’ll wake up one day and start forgetting to blog. I just went through a Winter of not [...]

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New Basement Bar Contest From Grant’s Whisky

Doug — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:08:36 +0000

Another distiller is sponsoring a home bar contest I thought you might be interested in. Grant’s Whisky is a maker of blended scotch whisky, and they are sponsoring a dual contest. The Grant’s Home Bar Experience offers an anyone can enter sweepstakes. Simply go to the website and enter your particulars. Oh, and be a [...]

Tiki Timeout: Bar Building and BlogBarCrawl Update

Doug — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:31:23 +0000

First, the latest episode of one of my favorite online comics: I’d love to use this as a seed to riff off of about building your own Basement Bar, and choosing to do it all yourself, versus hiring contractors. But in all honesty, the characters here are renovating and opening their own bar and restaurant. [...]

Bulletin, Bulletin, Bulletin!

Doug — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:06:10 +0000

I have a cocktail call to arms! It is time for all good culinary and cocktail enthusiasts to flex their consumer muscle to try to bring back a truly essential product. Via the comments in a thread at A Mountain of Crushed Ice, I learned that OXO has decided to discontinue what is perhaps the [...]

The Sixth Day of Christmas

Doug — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:01:50 +0000

On the Sixth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Six Glasses Gleaming, Five… Golden… Rums! Four Cocktail Books, Three French 75s, Two Jars of Olives, And a Shaker Full of Martinis!

Wow, They Even Have Black Friday Sales In the Cocktail World….

Doug — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:10:37 +0000

You probably get as many emails as I do about Black Friday sales. But this year brings the first I’ve seen for a bar products company. BarSupplies.com is running a series of specials for your home bar, or for the real bartender in your home. They have lots of gift packs, including ones for guys [...]

Basement Bar Design Accessories #9: Global Domination

Doug — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:00:33 +0000

Here’s an idea that isn’t new. I’ve heard of these things in movies for a long time, but I had not seen them in the real world until now. I am referring to small liquor cabinets that are shaped like free standing antique globes. {Click on pic for larger image} To be honest, these accessories [...]

Basement Bar Design Accessories #8: The Arkeg

Doug — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:24:50 +0000

I have said on numerous occasions that you need a featured time-waster in your Basement Bar. You know, something to discuss while you and your friends enjoy your cocktails. Alternatively, it should also be a way to distract that annoying guy, Geoffrey or whatever his name is, who otherwise always monopolizes the conversation with tales [...]