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Rum

Cobra's Fang

Glass
Double Old-Fashioned

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

rum tiki classic mid-century shaken passion-fruit falernum
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Ingredients

  • fresh orange juice (0.5 oz)
  • fresh lime juice (0.5 oz)
  • passion fruit syrup (0.5 oz)
  • falernum (0.5 oz)
  • Angostura bitters (1 dash)
  • absinthe (6 drops)
  • 151 proof Demerara rum (1.5 oz)
  • crushed ice (0.5 cup)
  • mint sprig (1)

Instructions

  1. In a shaker combine fresh orange juice, fresh lime juice, passion fruit syrup, falernum, Angostura bitters, absinthe, and 151 proof Demerara rum.
  2. Add crushed ice and flash blend or shake briefly.
  3. Pour unstrained into a double old-fashioned glass or tiki mug.
  4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Sources

  1. Berry, Sippin' Safari (2017 ed.), Cobra's Fang chapter, Berry's reconstruction of the Donn Beach c. 1937 spec, documenting the single-rum (151 Demerara) construction and the trademark Pernod-and-bitters perfume that runs through the Don the Beachcomber catalog. ↩
  2. "Cobra's fang." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra%27s_fang (accessed 2026-05-03), secondary-source summary documenting the c. 1937 Donn Beach attribution and the 1941 Don the Beachcomber menu appearance; cited here as supporting context for the Berry reconstruction. ↩