1.5 oz Rhum Agricole Vieux
.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice
.5 oz Velvet Falernum
.25 oz Don’s Honey (Honey Syrup)
2 dashed Angostura Bitters
3 oz Crushed Ice
Combine all and blend on high for 5 seconds. Strain* into coupe or cocktail glass.
*Double Straining will get all the little ice chunks out but won’t leave the bubbly head.
Note: The honey syrup used in this recipe is 1 part clover honey to 1 part water. Bring to a boil while mixing. When it starts to boil remove from heat and let cool. Should keep in the refrigerator for a month or so.
Navy Grog
.75 oz Lime Juice
.75 oz Grapefruit Juice
.75 oz Soda Water
1 oz Honey Syrup
1 oz Puerto Rican Rum
1 oz Demerara Rum
1 oz Dark Jamaican Rum
Shake with ice and strain into a double rocks glass or short Tiki mug.
Garnish: Ice Cone
Notes: Ice cone is made by packing snow ice into a flute glass and inserting a straw through the center. Once solid carefully dump out of glass and remove straw, giving the cone a hollow core. Freeze till use.
The Drinking Dead (or The Approachable Zombie) (Original)
.75 oz Lime juice
.5 oz Falernum
.5 oz Pod’s Mix (1:1 Grapefruit Juice:Cinnamon Syrup)
6 drops Pernod
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
.25 oz Homemade Grenadine
1 oz Smith & Cross
1 oz Mount Gay Eclipse
.5 oz Plantation O.F.T.D.
6 oz Crushed Ice
Blend all and open pour into Zombie glass or tall Tiki mug.
Garnish with mint and/or flaming lime peel. Turn a spent lime shell (half a squeezed lime) pulp up and slide a toothpick or cocktail pick through it so it sits atop glass. Pour over proof rum into lime shell and ignite.
Ancient Mariner
.75 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Grapefruit Juice
.5 Simple Syrup
.25 oz Allspice Dram
1 oz Demerara Rum
1 oz Dark Jamaican Rum
Shake well with 1 cup of crushed ice and pour unstrained into a double old fashioned glass.
Garnish: Mint sprig and scored lime wedge
Pinata
3 oz Pineapple Juice
.5 oz Demerara Syrup
1 oz Reed’s Ginger Beer
.5 oz Allspice Dram
1 oz Dark Jamaican Rum
1 oz Plantation 3 Star
Flash blend with 12 oz of crushed ice and open gate pour into a hollowed out pineapple or double rocks glass.
Garnish: Nutmeg.
Pampanito
1 oz Lemon Juice
.5 oz Honey Syrup
.5 oz Rich Demerara Syrup (2:1)
2 oz Seltzer
.25 oz Allspice Dram
1.5 oz Dark Jamaican Rum
1 dash Angostura
Flash Blend with 12 oz crushed ice and open strain into a 10 oz highball glass.
Garnish with lime twist
Montego Bay
1.5 oz Dark Jamaican Rum (Myers’s)
.25 tsp Allspice Dram
.5 Honey Mix
.5 oz Grapefruit Juice
.5 Lime Juice
1 dash Angostura
6 drops Pernod
3 oz Crushed Ice
Bend all ingredients for 5 seconds and double strain into a coup.
Note: Take care not to add too much ice.
Twenty Seventy Swizzle
.5 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Demerara Syrup
.5 Honey Syrup
.25 oz Allspice Dram
1 oz Flor de Cana 7 yr
1 oz Lemon Hart 151
1 dash Angostura
6 drops Pernod
1 pinch Nutmeg
Add all the ingredients to a 10 oz Collins glass, fill ¾ way with crushed ice and swizzle using a bar spoon or bois lélé, top off with more crushed ice.
Garnish with mint sprig
The Painkiller
2 oz Pusser’s Navy Rum
4 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Fresh Orange Juice
.75 oz Coconut Cream
Nutmeg
In a cocktail shaker combine all ingredients except nutmeg with a 1.5 cups of ice. Shake and pour entire contents into a Pusser’s Rum tin mug, double rocks glass, or tiki mug. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.
Garnish: Mint spring, Pineapple ring or chunks on a cocktail skewer.
Note: You will lose some coconut cream that sticks to the side of the jigger. To get .75 oz either fill to 1 oz mark and pour without scraping or shaking it all out, or fill to .75 oz mark and scrape the jigger to get it all out.
Tropical Itch (Joe Scialom)
2oz Light Puerto Rico Rum
1oz Dark Jamaica Rum
1oz Vodka
1oz Grand Marnier
.5oz Lime Juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
6oz Mango Juice (or Nectar)
Shake all ingredients with a heavy cup of crushed ice and pour into large hurricane glass. Add ice if necessary.
Garnish: Wooden Back Scratcher, mint, umbrella, assorted fruit.
Tropical Itch (Harry Yee)
8oz (1 Cup) Passion Fruit Juice
.5oz Orange Curacao
1.5oz Amber 151 Rum
1oz Dark Jamaica Rum
1oz Bourbon
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Add all ingredients to a large hurricane glass, fill with crushed ice, and swizzle till glass frosts over.
Garnish: Wooden Back Scratcher, Mint, Orchid, Pineapple chink, Umbrella
Hurricane (Tiki)
2 oz Dark Jamaica Rum
2 oz Light Aged Rum
1 oz Lime Juice
1 oz Orange Juice
1 oz Passion Fruit Syrup
.5 oz Simple Syrup
1 tsp Grenadine
Shake all ingredients with 1 cup Ice. Pour unstrained into Hurricane Glass. Top off with ice as needed.
Garnish: Lime and cherry on skewer. mint, cocktail umbrella.
Port Light
2 oz Bourbon
1 oz Lemon Juice
.5 oz Passion Fruit Syrup
1+ tsp Grenadine
1 Small Egg White
Dry shake all ingredients without ice to froth. Add ice and shake. Pour full contents into Port Light mug or tall Tiki Mug.
Garnish: Mint Sprig and Bright Red Cherry on a skewer.
Suffering Bastard
1 oz London Dry Gin
1 oz Cognac
.5 oz Lime Cordial
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
4 oz Ginger Beer
Shake all ingredients except ginger beer with ice. Add ginger beer and stir. Pour into a Rocks Glass or Suffering Bastard mug.
Zombie
1.5 oz Dark Jamaica Rum
1.5 Gold Puerto Rico Rum
1 oz Overproof Dark Rum
.75 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Falernum
.5 oz Don’s Mix
1 tsp Grenadine
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
6 Drops Pernod
1 Cup Crushed Ice
Blend all ingredients in blender, pour into Zombie glass or tall Tiki Mug.
Garnish: Float 1 half lime shell upside down in glass, pour some overproof rum into shell and light aflame.
Don’s Mix: 2 part Grapefruit Juice + 1 part Cinnamon Syrup
Mai Tai
2 oz Medium Bodied Jamaican Rum
1 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Orange Curacao
.25 oz Orgeat Syrup
.25 oz Simple Syrup
Shake all ingredients with small broken ice. (Crushed ice dilutes the drink too quickly.)
Double Rocks Glass, Short Tiki Mug
Garnish: Expressed mint sprig, 1/2 Lime Shell
Notes: The 2 oz of rum can be divided into a blend of 2 rums, but should always include some type of Jamaican. Dark Jamaican/Rhum Agricole Vieux, or Black Jamaican/Barbados are popular combinations.