Era

Tiki Era

Tiki Era: 16 cocktails. The year, a one-line fact and the full recipe for each.

Part of the tiki canon that Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's built in California after Prohibition ended.

• Blue Hawaii [editor-checked]
• Fog Cutter [editor-checked]
• Jet Pilot [editor-checked]
• Jungle Bird [editor-checked]
• Mai Tai [editor-checked]
• Mai Tai (Trader Vic's) Cocktail [editor-checked]
• Navy Grog [editor-checked]
• Painkiller [editor-checked]
• Pina Colada [editor-checked]
• Rum Runner [editor-checked]
• Saturn [editor-checked]
• Scorpion [editor-checked]
• Suffering Bastard [editor-checked]
• Test Pilot [editor-checked]
• Three Dots and a Dash [editor-checked]
• Zombie [editor-checked]

How these attributions were made: every drink was put to two AI models separately — OpenAI gpt-4o-mini and Google gemini-2.5-flash — and an answer is published only when both name the same kind of source and the same title, and neither reports a confidence below 0.6. Pairs that disagreed are held back for a person to check, so they are missing from these lists rather than guessed at. A row marked [editor-checked] comes from a history written here and was checked when it was written; a row marked [two models agreed] has not been read against a printed copy. Found one that is wrong? Write to us and it is corrected.

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