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The Original Zombie

Jeff “Beachbum” Berry has spent years uncovering the recipes for original tiki drinks from the ‘30s and ’40s. The Zombie—featured in Berry’s book Beachbum Berry’s Sippin’ Safari—is a Don the Beachcomber signature cocktail that has been poorly reinterpreted over the years, most often as a bad drink resembling a tropical Long Island iced tea. This recipe dates to about 1934. Berry found it in the 1937 notebook of Beachcomber waiter Dick Santiago, who had marked the recipe “old.”

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Ingredients

number of servings
1
  • 34 Cup crushed ice Added to
  • 112 ounce aged jamaican rum such as appleton estate v x or extra Added to
  • 112 ounce gold puerto rican rum Added to
  • 1 ounce 151 proof lemon hart demerara rum Added to
  • 34 ounce freshly squeezed Lime juice Added to
  • 2 teaspoon white grapefruit juice Added to
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon syrup Added to
  • 1 teaspoon grenadine Added to
  • 12 ounce falernum Added to
  • 0.125 teaspoon pernod Added to
  • 1 dash aromatic bitters such as angostura Added to
  • ice cubes Added to
  • 1 mint sprig for garnish Added to
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Directions

5 min.
1. Step

Place all ingredients except ice cubes and mint sprig in a blender. Blend on high until frothy but not slushy, no more than 5 seconds.

2. Step

Pour into a tall, narrow glass and add ice cubes to fill the glass. Garnish with a mint sprig.

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