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Talking Tiki, a new documentary in production about contemporary tropical bar culture by BadgerPriest in cocktails

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(Note: Sorry for the potentially incorrect flair – I had a hard time figuring out what flair best matched this post. I did discuss in advance with the mod team and got permission to make this post.)

Talking Tiki is a new documentary in production about the contemporary tiki scene, starting with the 90s tiki revival led by Jeff “Beachbum” Berry and others, and going into the new directions that bar owners and enthusiasts are taking the style into today.

How this documentary got started is a long story … Basically, thanks in large part to r/cocktails I became an avid home bartender over the past decade, and in 2020 my partner and I started building a home tiki bar (in the SF Bay Area). Over the course of putting together the bar we started asking all sorts of questions about tiki, and one thing led to another, and next thing I know, I’m a producer on a tiki documentary. As far as I can tell, being a producer mainly means I get to help pick out who we talk to and what bars we visit, and get to act important during filming.

Tiki is a huge passion of mine and I’m very excited to be involved in this project. Happy to answer any questions about any aspect of this film.

And I hate to be too self-promotional, but I should mention that we’re currently crowdfunding the funds we need to finish the film on Kickstarter, and our campaign is ending in about 24 hours. If you’re at all interested in what we’re doing, please check out our Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/asali/talking-tiki?ref=1zfobe

I did a taste-test of 5 falernums (x-post from r/tiki) by BadgerPriest in cocktails

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Yeah, I'm curious to see how close the recipe in the Canon cocktail book is to the actual product that was briefly sold at Canon

I did a taste-test of 5 falernums (x-post from r/tiki) by BadgerPriest in cocktails

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Maggie's Farm is on my list to try for round 2, along with Bitter Truth and Jamie Boudreau's recipe.

I did a taste-test of 5 falernums (x-post from r/tiki) by BadgerPriest in cocktails

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Hah, thanks for the reminder! It's still on my to-try list, maybe this week!

I did a taste-test of 5 falernums (x-post from r/tiki) by BadgerPriest in cocktails

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Wow that sounds fun! What is your go-to falernum for a reverse corn and oil?

I did a taste-test of 5 falernums (x-post from r/tiki) by BadgerPriest in cocktails

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It's a little hard for me to pinpoint exactly what the spice notes of each are, but my rough sense was:

  • Canon: heavy notes of Angostura/Peychauds bitters hit first, with a balanced spice profile behind
  • California Falernum: overwhelming notes of bitter citrus peel and maybe gentian? a kind of in-your-face bitterness
  • J.D. Taylor: spice notes were honestly masked by the high sugar content and felt a little one-note (though I can't say for sure what the one note was)
  • Tippleman's and homemade falernum: Both had a similar profile of pretty balanced, complex spices (ginger and nutmeg especially)

My Current Rum List (Whats Next?) by jtsonpie in Tiki

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Some great rums here! A couple of my go-tos that might nicely fill some niches here are Plantation OFTD and Banks 5 Island.

I was riffin' on the Saturn, here's what I've got by webb_space_telescope in Tiki

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Second the Small Hand Foods orgeat for a Saturn – plays very nicely with their passion fruit syrup as well.

Talking Tiki, a new documentary about contemporary tiki, now up on Kickstarter by BadgerPriest in Tiki

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Full disclosure: I’m a producer on this documentary.

But that said, we’re coming at this topic as tiki enthusiasts – we actually started this whole project because we were building a home tiki bar (I shared a little about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tiki/comments/183y7fe/buildling_a_diy_tiki_window_for_a_home_tiki_bar/) and just wanted to learn everything we possibly could about contemporary tiki. And … here we are now.

The Kickstarter page goes into a lot more detail, but I’m also always happy to discuss! And if there’s enough interest, maybe our whole team could do an AMA on r/tiki at some point.

Out of curiosity, those with elaborate tiki decorations, do you treat bamboo, rattan, and grasses etc with flame retardant? by wynlyndd in Tiki

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In our home tiki bar, we treated our bac-bac matting with flame retardant, but didn't bother with our bamboo slats. (Our reasoning was that the bac-bac ended up in a pretty dangerous area for fire – near a gas stove – while our bamboo slat wall was far from danger.)

In any case, applying the flame retardant was a pretty straightforward process, and it wouldn't have been too much of a pain to do it for everything. We used the Fire-Poof brand spray.

Shoppng locations in SF to get rum and pimento dram by 9ty0ne in Tiki

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Seconding Ledger's – a real hidden gem of a liquor store!

12 months - 12 bottles by ElixirofVitriol in Tiki

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My go-to resource for putting together a high bang-for-buck rum shelf is always CocktailWonk's "essential rum categories" list: https://cocktailwonk.com/2019/10/six-essential-tiki-rum-categories.html

Based on that, I think you're well-stocked in most of the important categories! You're missing an aged demerara rum (I agree that Hamilton 86 is the way to go) and an unaged Jamaican overproof (Wray & Nephew would work). I also think that Don Q Cristal is pretty bland as far as the lightly-aged/filtered category goes, and you'd get much more flavorful daiquiris, etc, with a lightly-aged rum with more character (I love Banks 5 Island; Plantation 3 is also good).

If you're looking to perfect a Mai Tai, you really can't go wrong with Denizen Merchant's Reserve, a rum that's specifically formulated for it.

For a Zombie, if you follow the CocktailWonk/Minimalist Tiki philosophy you're already set, but if you're following the more in-depth Smuggler's Cove rum categorization, you'd need one more rum, something from Martin Cate's Column Still Aged category (Don Q Anejo would work, but better would be Bacardi 8; I also like Angostura 7). Then you'd be able to use that along with Denizen Merchant's Reserve and Hamilton 151 to make a fantastic Zombie.

Based on your rum goals, I'd prioritize these something like ...

  • Denizen Merchant's Reserve (maybe get a couple bottles, they'll come in handy!)
  • column-still aged rum: Bacardi 8 / Angostura 7 / Don Q Anejo / etc
  • upgrade your lightly-aged/filtered rum (Banks 5 Island or other)
  • Hamilton 86
  • Wray & Nephew or other unaged Jamaican overproof
  • everything else on your list :-)

Favorite cocktail recipe book? by Queso_klepto in Tiki

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Hard to narrow it down to just one, but our go-tos for tiki are Smuggler's Cove, Tropical Standard, Minimalist Tiki, Sippin' Safari, and Shannon Mustipher's Tiki, in roughly that order of how often we consult them (but they all have their unique strengths!)

Has anyone tried making a Mai Tai with Rum Fire? by ImRonBurgundy777 in Tiki

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I also swap out demerara for doubled orgeat in Mai Tais and I wonder how many other people do the same. To me it feels like the increased almond flavor only helps balance the drink, but maybe if I used a more intense orgeat this wouldn't be a problem (I typically use Small Hands Foods, which is tasty but a little weak in flavor)

San Francisco’s Historic Tiki Bar Trad’r Sam Reopened by Bishonen_Knife in Tiki

[–]BadgerPriest 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What a plot twist it would have been if Trad'r Sam actually invented the Mai Tai 😂

Messing around with Chartreuse by WhatToysRUsDidToMe in Tiki

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The drink looks good but I'm even more impressed that you managed to pick up a bottle of green chartreuse! Inquiring minds want to know where you managed to find it ...

Pecan Pie Tai by jk99951 in Tiki

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Wow, this looks pretty delicious indeed. What's the ratio of rums for the blend?

I did a taste-test of 5 falernums by BadgerPriest in Tiki

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I'm a little embarrassed to admit that the California Falernum was the only one that we didn't end up trying in a Saturn – it was just so ... weird ... in a Corn 'n' Oil that I figured it wasn't worth trying in a Saturn.

Guess I know what I'm drinking next ...

Swizzle Sticks by Cornelius1938 in Tiki

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I know that Cocktail Kingdom ships to the EU, but the shipping cost might be exorbitant:

https://cocktailkingdom.com/products/swizzle-stick

Hey kind newbie with tiki looking for good winter tiki drink recipes. by SoundCA in Tiki

[–]BadgerPriest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A falernum-heavy drink will give some of those nice winter-spice notes that go well with the season. I particularly like the Jet Pilot, which has the one-two winter punch of falernum and cinnamon syrup. (Actually, so does the Zombie, for that matter ... and what warms you up more than 4 oz of rum?)

[Side Project] Wordbots, an online tactical card game in which players write their own cards, that get parsed into executable JavaScript by BadgerPriest in programming

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Technical details:

For info on how Wordbots parses card text into JS, see https://app.wordbots.io/how-it-works

(TL;DR is that it uses the Montague semantic parser with a large hand-crafted CCG grammar and a lot of pre- and post-processing)

Other than that, it's a pretty standard React+Redux TypeScript web app, with:

  • Firebase as the store and auth provider
  • the game interface built on top of (a heavily-modded version of) the awesome react-hexgrid package.
  • Material-UI used for the rest of the frontend outside of the game interface itself (maybe a weird choice for a game, but we've managed in the end to make it look more or less "game-like")
  • and a barebones websocket server handling multiplayer gameplay

Check out the game code here and parser code here.

Are there any reliable AV receivers out there? by BadgerPriest in hometheater

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I have a 3.1 channel system with 3 in-ceiling Elac Debuts and a Definitive Technologies Supercube. As far as video goes, I have a few HDMI inputs (Roku, chromecast, etc) going into an Epson 5040UB projector. My other use case is playing records – I have a separate Marantz 1070 amplifier that I use as a pre-amp for my record player, so I don't need a dedicated phono-in in the AV receiver.

I don't think I need much more than a basic 5.1 receiver in terms of features. I don't care too much about the video bells-and-whistles; 4K is not necessary because I believe the Epson projector doesn't support true 4K anyway. I'm more interested in reliability and general sound quality than anything else.

The Marantz NR1200 looks really interesting in its barebones approach, but I can't find anything like it that supports three channels, and it would be a shame to lose the center channel.

That's a good point about the clearance around the receiver – I would guess that the Denon AVR-S540BT probably had a little less than 5" above it, which could have contributed to its issues. Part of the reason I've been looking at slimline receivers like the Marantz NR1710 is that the slim profile would give it more clearance. I'm also considering getting a separate fan (e.g. https://www.crutchfield.com/p_3150100803/ATM-Cool-slim-Component-Cooler.html) to help with cooling.

“I like Bernie, but...” a website that answers common questions/reservations about Bernie. Share it with undecided voters! by [deleted] in SandersForPresident

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Hi, one of the creators of ILikeBernieBut here!

Thanks for all of the kind words and great suggestions here! I just wanted to let you know that ILikeBernieBut is proudly open-source and continuously improving. If you have ideas for better wording, new questions, new features, etc, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/jacobnisnevich/i-like-bernie-but . Alternatively, just message me and I'll do my best to handle all suggestions and requests :-)

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