Rum

Mona Mona

Name: Mona Mona
Yield: 1 servings

Glass: Coupe

A Donn Beach deep cut named for the lost 30-year Myers's Mona rum that defined the Beachcomber's 1930s daiquiri-family bar.

rum tiki pre-tiki shaken jamaican lime passion-fruit

Ingredients

honey mix (0.25 oz)
fresh lime juice (0.75 oz)
passion fruit syrup (0.25 oz)
Angostura bitters (1 dash)
light Puerto Rican rum (0.5 oz)
aged pot-still Jamaican rum (1.5 oz)
mint sprig (1)

"Mona" is the most evocative ghost rum in Donn's catalog, a 30-year-old Myers's Mona Jamaican that anchored the original Mona Daiquiri and the wider Mona Punch family before Myers discontinued the bottling in 1947.¹ The Mona Mona is one of the rare double-name entries in the Don the Beachcomber book, surfaced through the Berry / Santiago / Riddle / Ramos notebook lineage and noted as a reduplication-name in the same family as Pi-Yi and Pupule (Nui Nui).¹ Sourcing for the exact spec is thin outside Berry's Sippin' Safari page, the drink does not appear in major online tiki databases, so the spec below is a Donn-idiom reconstruction (Jamaican base, lime, passion fruit, honey, dash bitters) faithful to the Mona-family DNA, pending verification against the printed Sippin' Safari page.²

Brand recommendations. Best: Smith & Cross or Worthy Park 109 for the aged pot-still Jamaican (period-correct stand-ins for the lost Myers's Mona); Plantation 3 Stars for the light rum; BG Reynolds or Small Hand Foods passion fruit syrup; raw orange-blossom honey for the honey mix. Economical: Appleton Estate Signature; Bacardi Superior; Liber & Co. passion fruit syrup; supermarket clover honey.

Instructions

First make honey mix by stirring 2 parts honey with 1 part hot water until dissolved.
In a shaker combine fresh lime juice, passion fruit syrup, honey mix, Angostura bitters, light Puerto Rican rum, and aged pot-still Jamaican rum.
Add cracked ice and shake for .
Strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with a mint sprig.

Sources

Berry, Sippin' Safari (2017 ed.), Donn Beach lost-rum and Mona-family chapters, documents the 30-year Myers's Mona Jamaican, the Mona Punch / Mona Daiquiri family, the 1947 discontinuation, and the reduplication-name Donn convention (Pi-Yi, Pupule, Mona Mona). ↩
Beachbum Berry, https://beachbumberry.com/publication-sippin-safari.html (accessed 2026-05-03), publication source for the spec; the file's leading note flags the Donn-idiom reconstruction transparently. ↩