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American

Classic French Toast

20 min 4 servings Easy

Perfectly golden, custardy French toast with a hint of vanilla and cinnamon.

Rum

Mai Tai

Double Old-Fashioned

Trader Vic's 1944 rum sour with orgeat and orange curaçao, structurally a refined Jamaican planter's-punch sour built around a specific lost Jamaican rum.

Rum

Zombie

Zombie Glass

Donn Beach's notorious 1934 three-rum sleeper, reconstructed from Dick Santiago's secret notebook, an American maximalist riff on the Jamaican Planter's Punch.

Rum

Original Daiquiri (Cox 1898)

Highball

The original Cuban Daiquiri, rum, lime, and sugar built over cracked ice and sipped through a straw.

Rum

Navy Grog

Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's three-rum honey-and-citrus grog, served around a frozen ice cone, dressing up the Royal Navy West Indies grog tradition in Hollywood Polynesian Pop.

Rum

Three Dots and a Dash

Snifter

Donn Beach's Morse-code "V for victory" toast, rhum agricole, Demerara, honey, and allspice dram.

Rum

Jet Pilot

Double Old-Fashioned

Stephen Crane's overproof-Demerara riff on the Test Pilot, sharpened with cinnamon syrup and absinthe.

Gin

Saturn

Pilsner

J. "Popo" Galsini's IBA gold-medal gin tropical, garnished to look like the ringed planet.

Rum

Hurricane

Hurricane

New Orleans' Pat O'Brien's wartime two-rum and passion-fruit slammer, born of a 1940s rum oversupply, originally Demerara-heavy.

Rum

Piña Colada

Hurricane

Creamy blended Puerto Rican classic of rum, coconut cream, and pineapple, sunshine in a glass.

Rum

Hemingway Daiquiri

Coupe

El Floridita's grapefruit-and-maraschino daiquiri, blended slushy for Papa Hemingway.

Rum

Cobra's Fang

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's overproof Demerara stinger, kicked with passion fruit, falernum, and his signature absinthe-bitters.