https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPcM37cpgm4
Here, tiki author and owner of New Orleans bar Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29, Jeff "Beachbum" Berry talks about what you need to consider to make a great tiki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRR0D0sd2sQ
Legendary rum collector Stephen Remsberg and Jeff "Beachbum" Berry talk about their collaboration to uncover the ingredients of the original Tiki classics, i

https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1p75vo/lets_talk_about_tiki_drinks/
As u/piskie already mentioned, Jeff Berry's books are a great resource for finding out about the historic origins of tiki drinks. I'd honestly put many classic (1930s-1950s tiki era) tiki drinks up on the same level as pre-prohibition classics. The sheer range of different ingredients and flavor combinations possible are very fertile ground for creating something unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Berry_(mixologist)
Berry speaks about the Mai Tai in 2011. Jeff "Beachbum" Berry (born c. 1958) is an American restaurant owner, author, and historian of tiki culture, particularly the drinks associated with the tiki theme.In addition to researching and reconstructing lost recipes, he has invented and published his own cocktail recipes.

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https://australianbartender.com.au/2017/11/08/like-tiki-drinks-well-guy-jeff-berry-reason-get-good-recipes/
It's hard to overstate this guy's importance for tiki bars: Jeff Berry literally wrote the books on tiki. Beachbum Berry's Sippin' Safari is required reading, if you ask us, as is his Potions of the Caribbean. ... What makes a great tiki drink is basically what makes a great Caribbean drink. The Caribbean template has always been sweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/heres-a-beach-bum-whos-serious-about-one-thing-tiki-cocktails/2015/04/11/05765ed2-de43-11e4-a500-1c5bb1d8ff6a_story.html
Tiki cocktails have two best-known grandfathers, Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic. Although the Trader Vic's chain published many of its drink recipes, Donn Beach was notoriously secretive.

https://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2013/06/07/take-5-jeff-beachbum-berry-tiki-cocktail-author-and-historian-extraordinaire/
Jeff "Beachbum" Berry is extremely passionate about Tiki, tropical drinks and The Mai-Kai. In April, we caught up with the author of such essential Tiki cocktail bibles as Grog Log and Sippin' Safari in his natural habitat (The Mai-Kai gardens) and posed the following questions. Interview by Jim "Hurricane" Hayward 1. If you could transport … Continue reading "Take 5: Jeff

https://www.drinksbymarazzi.com/2017/01/jeff-beachbum-berry-en/
20 enero, 2017. Jeff "Beachbum" Berry is the man who trailed lost recipes from the most important tiki restaurants and bars as Trader Vic's and Don the Beachcomber and decoded them. His signature cocktail recipes have been printed in publications around the world and can be tasted at his restaurant in New Orleans, Beachbum Berry's

https://www.diffordsguide.com/encyclopedia/2694/people/jeff-berry
Jeff Berry. Originally from: Los Angeles. Profession: Drinks writer. Jeff 'Beachbum' Berry is arguably the greatest living authority on tiki, both as a phenomenon and as a human database of tiki cocktails. The former Hollywood screenwriter talks about how tiki has always been part of his life, tips his straw hat to the London scene and talks

https://bartenderatlas.com/features/community/jeff-beachbum-berry/
Jeff Beachbum Berry: When I was old enough to drink in bars, in 1980, I started drinking tiki drinks. That's really all I was interested in. I never really enjoyed any other sort of cocktail. Tiki drinks were so good, and non tiki cocktails were so bad. This was the '80s in Los Angeles-—you couldn't get a good cocktail anywhere, except

https://punchdrink.com/articles/does-anyone-know-modern-tiki-cocktail-history/
It is, as Berry concludes, "a Caribbean drink squared, or cubed.". Where a typical punch recipe might call for lime as the sole sour element, tiki will call for lime and grapefruit, or even lime, grapefruit and passionfruit. For the sweet element, in place of just simple syrup, honey or maple syrup might also make an appearance.

https://www.marketwatchmag.com/tikis-boom-and-bust/
But tiki drinks aren't without complexity, points out Jeff "Beachbum" Berry, owner of Latitude 29 at the Bienville House Hotel in New Orleans. "A classic pre-Prohibition cocktail usually maxes out at three ingredients—it's like a song, while a classic Tiki drink is more like a symphony, a polyphonic composition balancing up to 14

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4gdx4/real-tiki-cocktails-should-taste-like-an-elvis-movie
In the 1970s and 80s, tiki drinks got a bad reputation for being too sweet. But a true tiki cocktail should be balanced, complex, use good rum, and instantly transport you to a palm tree-lined beach.

https://imbibemagazine.com/characters-jeff-beachbum-berry/
Paul Clarke is Imbibe's Executive Editor and the author of The Cocktail Chronicles: Navigating the Cocktail Renaissance With Jigger, Shaker & Glass, released in July of 2015. He believes in the importance of a diverse liquid diet. Jeff "Beachbum" Berry is one of the characters responsible for bringing tiki back.

https://beachbumberry.com/publication-total-tiki.html
A unique recipe database of over 250 great exotic drinks and Tiki cocktails, Beachbum Berry's Total Tiki is now available for your iPad and iPhone. Total Tiki offers more than 100 new recipes in addition to those of its immediate predecessor, Beachbum Berry's Tiki+, which was one of the most consistently highly-rated apps in the App Store.

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https://bevvy.co/articles/short-history-whiskey-tiki-drinks/20158
Jeff "Beachbum" Berry, a prolific author of Tiki tomes and owner of Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29 in New Orleans, lists a number of other whiskey-based Tiki drinks that enjoyed mid-century popularity: The Port Light, Starboard Light, Bourbon Special, Rainkiller and Halekulani. He also adds that the inclusion of whiskey was sometimes

https://www.liquor.com/recipes/beachbums-own/
Steps. Add all the ingredients to a shaker with crushed ice and shake until well-chilled. Pour, unstrained, into a Tiki mug or a double Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with a cocktail umbrella. Grab that Tiki mug and mix up Beachbum's Own. Jeff "Beachbum" Berry shares this tropical recipe, filled with rum, Licor 43 and lots of fruits.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezq7n7/tiki-drinking-culture-has-always-been-a-fantasy-but-not-an-easy-one
The drink would frequently come in a ceramic mug with an exotic affect, often inspired by the sincere religious Polynesian art form that would lend the entire enterprise one of its names: tiki.

https://commonmancocktails.com/video/how-to-make-the-pearl-diver-tiki-drinks/
Well, B.G. Reynolds' has produced a version of Don's great mix so now you can unlock the potential of this recipe. The Pearl Diver - 1 1/2 oz Aged column-still rum - 1/2 oz Demerara rum - 1/2 oz Fresh lime juice - 1/2 oz Fresh orange juice - 1/2 oz Don's Gardenia Mix - 1 dash Angostura bitters. Garnish: Edible orchid Garnish

https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/508jns/recommendations_for_tiki_books/
Wholeheartedly recommended as a reference on how to effectively tikify your life. Drinks are a little more on the spiced, complex flavor side, but not horrendously inaccessible to make or drink. Uses a different system to categorize rum from berry, so watch out that you might find yourself buying more aged and dark rums. But totally worth it.

https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/drinks/a45022681/demerara-rum-tiki-drink-recipes/
0.75 oz white grapefruit juice. 0.75 oz soda water. 1 oz honey mix (1:1 honey and water mixture; melt the honey in the microwave before combining) 1 oz light rum. 1.5 oz dark Jamaican rum. 1 oz Demerara rum. Shake all ingredients with ice cubes and strain into a double old-fashioned glass with an ice cone around a straw or, alternatively, one