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TIKI TIKI Shake your summer blues away with colorful cocktails from the rock stars at Orlando’s Aku Aku, an homage to an era when every hour of the day was tiki time When Don the Beachcomber and a small group of others combined tropical fruit, booze and a “let it fly” ethos in the 1930s, they lit a [tiki] torch that’s burning brighter than ever today. Currently tending the flame is Todd Ulmer, founder/owner of Aku Aku in Orlando, Fla., a nod to the Polynesian Vegas institution that kept the party going in the 1960s. Ulmer—and his friend and chief mixologist, Eric Solomon (pictured)—celebrate the loud pineapple and its curative effects every day, dispensing modern classic libations perfect for the sunshine-minded. If you can’t make it to Orlando to try their award-winning drinks, fire up your blender at home and join a beautiful rum-soaked tradition of swaying palms, screaming shirts and raised glasses. Just don’t expect to see any drinks on fire— modern insurance companies aren’t enchanted by the volcanic possibilities...
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