Beachbum Berry: The Grog Log ~ One Cocktail at a Time

Since "Demon Rum" is our preferred spirt, it only made sense that rum based tropical drinks are our drink of choice. We therefore have quite a selection of rum, as well as just about every liqueur, juice and mixer.

We are also blessed to live in the San Fernando Valley where alongside so many alcoholic degenerates which has made the ability to find good alcohol easy, due to the high demand. Or maybe it’s just us two buying the inventory?

In any event, we are fortunate to have two liquor stores in the San Fernando Valley that stock a great selection of spirits.

The Green Jug located in West Hills their knowledge of spirits and wine as well as their customer service can't be beat. The Wine & Liquor Depot in Van Nuys has excellent prices and the rum, scotch and tequila selection is phenomenal. Seriously, check out their website.

Since not all tropical drinks are entirely rum based, so we also keep a standard stock spirits such as gin, bourbon and vodka.

With that said, we decided to give our livers a work-out by making and consuming each and every recipe in Beach Bum Berry’s Grog Log.

Why the Grog Log? Well, this book is somewhat of the bible of vintage tropical drinks. The drinks are in alphabetical order and at first we were going to start with the first recipe, the Ancient Mariner, however, this drink called for Pimento Liqueur. Ironically, the one liqueur we did not have. Something that will be remedied very shortly. We finally opted to make all the drinks, but the order wasn’t a priority.

The book has 20 “small rum drinks”, 30 “medium-sized rum drinks”; 17 large rum drinks; 3 bourbon drinks, 2 vodka drinks; 4 gin drinks, 2 hot drinks, 2 “party punches” and 2 non-alcoholic drinks. If I did my math right that's....82 drinks.

You’ll have to purchase the book if you’d like to make these cocktails, it just wouldn’t be cool to basically type out every cocktail recipe. So don’t e-mail me for the recipes. Buy the book you cheap-skate. (Beachbum Berry's Grog Log by Jeff Berry & Annene Kaye).

So here lies the challenge, to make and drink each and every cocktail.