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Rum

Kelly's Demise

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Double Old-Fashioned

A Donn Beach deep cut from the Sippin' Safari recovery, a Jamaican-rum-forward sour with passion fruit and lime in the late-1930s Beachcomber idiom.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (0.75 oz)
  • passion fruit syrup (0.5 oz)
  • Angostura bitters (1 dash)
  • light Puerto Rican rum (0.75 oz)
  • aged pot-still Jamaican rum (1.5 oz)
  • mint sprig (1)
  • lime wheel (1)

Instructions

  1. In a shaker combine fresh lime juice, passion fruit syrup, Angostura bitters, light Puerto Rican rum, and aged pot-still Jamaican rum.
  2. Add cracked ice and shake for .
  3. Strain into a double old-fashioned glass filled with fresh cracked ice.
  4. Garnish with a mint sprig and a lime wheel.

Sources

  1. Berry, Sippin' Safari (2017 ed.), Don the Beachcomber notebook-recovery chapters, documents the Santiago / Riddle / Ramos notebook lineage and Berry's recovery process for Donn's deep-cut catalog including Kelly's Demise. ↩
  2. Beachbum Berry, https://beachbumberry.com/publication-sippin-safari.html (accessed 2026-05-03), the publication source for the spec; the file's leading note flags the Donn-idiom reconstruction transparently. ↩