Cocktail recipe

Zombie

A blended cocktail featuring Jamaican Rum, Brown Rum, Demerara Rum.

Zombie cocktail

Ingredients

  • 45 ml Jamaican Rum
  • 45 ml Brown Rum
  • 30 ml Demerara Rum
  • 20 ml Lime Juice
  • 15 ml Falernum
  • 15 ml Donn's Mix
  • 1 tsp Grenadine Syrup
  • 1 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
  • 6 Pernod

Method

  1. Prepare Donn’s Mix if needed by mixing two parts grapefruit juice with one part cinnamon syrup; measure the listed amount from that mixture.
  2. Add all the measured ingredients to a blender with about 170 grams of cracked ice.
  3. Pulse for a few seconds, just until mixed and chilled.
  4. Pour the entire mixture into a highball glass.
  5. Optional garnish: Mint Leaves leafs.

Story

Donn Beach, founder of Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood, created it in 1934 and guarded the recipe so closely that his bartenders mixed from numbered, unlabelled bottles. The menu limited customers to two, which did more for its reputation than any advertisement.