There’s More to Tiki Drinks Than Just Rum

A pair of tiki drinks, no rum necessary.

Tiki godfather Donn Beach called his drinks “rhum rhapsodies.” As Jeff “Beachbum” Berry tells it, when he first started quizzing tiki bartenders about what was in their delicious drinks, they would just reply, cryptically, “rum and fruit juice.” 

Flip through virtually any tiki manual and the vast majority of drinks will call for rum, or a combination of…