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Rum

Shrunken Skull

Glass
Skull Mug

A streamlined two-rum lime-and-grenadine punch, the simpler ancestor of Skull & Bones.

rum tiki tropical mid-century shaken lime
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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (1 oz)
  • pomegranate grenadine (1 oz)
  • gold Puerto Rican rum (1 oz)
  • 151-proof Demerara rum (1 oz)
  • mint sprig (1)

Instructions

  1. Add fresh lime juice, pomegranate grenadine, gold Puerto Rican rum, and 151-proof Demerara rum to a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
  2. Shake vigorously.
  3. Pour everything (ice and all) into a skull mug or double old fashioned glass.
  4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Sources

  1. Berry, Beachbum Berry's Grog Log (1998), Shrunken Skull entry (p. 75), the 1940s Donn Beach ancestor reconstruction Berry traces from a Mr. Lemon Hart's Tropical Treats (1973) intermediate source. ↩
  2. Atomic Grog (Hurricane Hayward), "Mai-Kai Cocktail Review: Drink Like a Native with the Shrunken Skull." https://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2011/08/10/mai-kai-cocktail-review-drink-like-a-native-with-the-shrunken-skull/ (accessed 2026-05-03), documents the drink's continuous menu run at the Mai-Kai since the 1956 opening. ↩
  3. Glazner, Mai-Kai: History and Mystery of the Iconic Tiki Restaurant (2016), Shrunken Skull entry, corroborates the Mai-Kai menu lineage and Mariano Licudine's adoption of the Donn Beach template. ↩