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Queen’s Park Swizzle

The Queen's Park Swizzle is a classic tiki drink beloved by Trader Vic and many other tiki-philes that followed. The cocktail is said to have originated at the Queen’s Park Hotel in Trinidad in the 1920s. The cocktail is made by muddling mint with sugar or simple syrup, then adding…

The Coconut Room

We love coconut water - especially when we're drinking it from a freshly cracked open coconut. Coconut water isn't used in cocktails all that often, largely because it has a very mild flavor and is easy overwhelmed by other ingredients, from full bodied rums to potent citrus. We've had a…

Stiggins Fancy Swizzle

Plantation Pineapple Rum Stiggins' Fancy is a great rum that both tiki enthusiasts and cocktail enthusiasts in general tend to gush over. The rum is made by infusing ripe pineapples in aged rum fo three months. Instead of using the flesh of the pineapple, they actually use the whole fruit…

St Germain Swizzle

We've been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather here in Los Angeles this week and that has put us in the mood for some more refreshing cocktails. Swizzles are always a great choice when you want a drink to cool you down since they are served ice cold - but you…

Swamp Thing Swizzle

We came up with the name Swamp Thing Swizzle and knew that it was perfect for a Halloween drink. We don't usually start with the drink name and reverse-engineer its contents, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. We wanted a green drink and started with…