🧟 Zombie

The legendary tiki drink that comes with a warning

🍹 Tiki Legend

Ingredients

1½ oz Gold Puerto Rican rum
1½ oz Dark Jamaican rum
1 oz 151-proof rum (optional float)
¾ oz Fresh lime juice
½ oz Falernum
½ oz Don's Mix (grapefruit juice + cinnamon syrup 2:1)
1 tsp Grenadine
1 dash Angostura bitters
½ oz Pernod or absinthe
1 Mint sprig (for garnish)

Instructions

Add all ingredients except 151 rum to a shaker.
Fill with ice and shake vigorously.
Strain into a tall glass or tiki mug filled with crushed ice.
Float 151 rum on top (optional but traditional).
Garnish with mint and drink responsibly – there's a lot of rum here.

Pro Tips

⚠️ The Two-Drink Maximum

Don the Beachcomber famously limited guests to two Zombies per person. The drink contains roughly 4.5 oz of rum – approach with caution.

📜 Secret Recipe

Don kept the original 1934 recipe secret, using codes for ingredients. The version above is based on Jeff "Beachbum" Berry's exhaustive research to recreate the original.

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