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Rum Cocktails

Recipes

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.
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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.
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Original Daiquiri (Cox 1898)

Highball

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

Snifter

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

Double Old-Fashioned

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

Hurricane

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

Hurricane

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

Coupe

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

Double Old-Fashioned

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

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's two-rum signature laced with his trademark Pernod-and-bitters secret combination.
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Hotel Nacional Special

Coupe

A pre-tiki Havana daiquiri variation with pineapple and apricot brandy, praised by Charles H. Baker.
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Pearl Diver

Pearl Diver Glass

Donn Beach's honey-butter Gardenia Mix cocktail, once famously served with a hidden pearl prize inside.
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Planter's Punch

Collins

The rhyming Jamaican rum-punch formula in template form, one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak.
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El Presidente

Coupe

Aged Cuban rum stirred with blanc vermouth, curaçao, and a whisper of grenadine, Havana's pre-Prohibition aperitif.
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Queen's Park Swizzle

Collins

Trinidadian mint-and-Demerara swizzle crowned with bitters that bleed down through the crushed ice.
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Beachcomber's Gold

Coupe

Donn Beach's three-rum almond-and-Pernod sipper served in an iced champagne saucer.
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Royal Bermuda Yacht Club

Coupe

A Bermuda-born daiquiri spiked with falernum and Cointreau, perfected in Trader Vic's 1947 guide.
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Vicious Virgin

Coupe

Donn Beach's daiquiri-style two-rum freeze with Cointreau and falernum, found in Mariano Licudine's notebook.
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Mojito

Highball

Havana's classic five-ingredient highball, rum, lime, sugar, mint, and soda, descended from El Draque.
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Cuba Libre

Highball

Havana's turn-of-the-century cola-and-rum highball, three ingredients, one revolution-era toast.
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Mary Pickford

Coupe

Prohibition-era Havana cocktail named for the silent-film star, rum, pineapple, grenadine, maraschino.
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Fog Cutter

Collins

Trader Vic's three-spirit sneaker, rum, gin, brandy with citrus, orgeat, and a cream sherry float.
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Bacardi Cocktail

Coupe

A Havana-born pink daiquiri, legally bound to Bacardi rum by a 1936 court ruling.
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Painkiller

Double Old-Fashioned

The Soggy Dollar Bar's beachfront BVI standard, navy rum, pineapple, cream of coconut, and orange.
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Scorpion

Double Old-Fashioned

Trader Vic's slushy rum-and-brandy bowl-cocktail in single-serve form, citrusy and orgeat-rich.
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Missionary's Downfall

Wine Glass

Donn Beach's pre-blender-era frozen mint-and-pineapple cooler, built with whole fruit and herb.
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151 Swizzle

Swizzle Cup

High-octane Demerara 151 swizzle from Don the Beachcomber, dusted with nutmeg over crushed ice.
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Bahama Mama

Hurricane

A Bahamian beachside rum drink layered with coconut, pineapple, and orange, named for a calypso singer.
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Ti' Punch

Rocks

Martinique's national drink, rhum agricole, lime, and cane syrup, prepared by each drinker to taste.
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Goombay Smash

Highball

The Bahamian national drink, Miss Emily's secret-recipe rum smash with apricot brandy and pineapple.
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Bermuda Rum Swizzle

Double Rocks

Bermuda's national drink, Black Seal rum churned with citrus, pineapple, and a dash of bitters.
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Demerara Dry Float

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's tart, dry, passion-fruit-driven Demerara sour, finished with a high-proof rum float, the canonical Demerara Float.
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Aku-Aku

Moai Mug

Stardust-era Polynesian-pop blender drink, peach liqueur, mint, and pineapple over rum, served in a custom moai mug.
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Doctor Funk

Collins

Donn Beach's anise-tinged Jamaican rum cooler named after Robert Louis Stevenson's Samoan physician.
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Daiquiri No. 1 (Floridita)

Coupe

Constante Ribalaigua's house Daiquirí at El Floridita, the canonical shaken rum, lime, and sugar template that fixed the modern spec.
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Daiquiri No. 4 (Floridita)

Coupe

Constante's frozen Daiquirí with maraschino, the most-ordered Floridita pour and the technical parent of the Hemingway.
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Coffee Grog

Heatproof Mug

Donn Beach's flaming hot coffee with spiced butter batter and a flaming float of overproof rum.
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Mai-Kai Mystery Drink

Tiki Mug

The Mai-Kai's gong-and-Mystery-Girl ceremony, a flaming Scorpion-Bowl descendant for two.
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Black Magic (Mai-Kai)

Snifter

Mai-Kai's secretive coffee-laced rum elixir, served in a brandy snifter over crushed ice.
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Tortuga

Chimney

Trader Vic's multi-juice rum sour with chocolate, orange, and vermouth, a tribute to Constantino Ribalaigua.
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Air Mail

Highball

A pre-tiki Cuban honey daiquiri lifted with brut champagne, first stamped on a 1930 Bacardi pamphlet.
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Tahitian Rum Punch

Collins

Donn Beach-era multi-citrus punch with white wine, banana liqueur, and a vanilla whisper.
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Dark 'n' Stormy

Highball

Bermuda's trademarked storm-cloud highball, a float of Black Seal over Stormy ginger beer.
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Samoan Fog Cutter

Collins

Trader Vic's three-spirit citrus sour with sweet sherry float, the Samoan variant of the Fog Cutter, distinguished by reduced rum and brandy.
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Penang Afrididi

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's lost passion fruit and Pernod-laced rum drink, reconstructed from Dick Santiago's notes.
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Shrunken Skull

Skull Mug

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

Pilsner

Donn Beach's grapefruit-cinnamon agricole swizzle, originally published as "Donga Punch."
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Pago Pago

Coupe

A 1940 daiquiri-shaped gem with green Chartreuse, white crème de cacao, and muddled pineapple.
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Sidewinder's Fang

Snifter

A Cobra's Fang cousin from Lanai, Jamaican and Demerara rums lit up with citrus and passion fruit.
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Bali Hai

Tiki Mug

The base house pour of San Diego's Bali Hai Restaurant, a rum-pineapple-lime sour that preceded the more elaborate Mr. Bali Hai mug drink.
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Hot Buttered Rum

Mug

An 18th-century New England tavern staple, dark rum, butter, and warming spices in a steaming mug.
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Mr. Bali Hai

Mr. Bali Hai Mug

The Mr. Bali Hai mug's signature pour, coffee brandy, two rums, and pineapple in a carved moai vessel.
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Outrigger

Coupe

Beachbum Berry's sugar-rimmed rum sidecar, Cointreau and aged Caribbean rum.
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Hawaii Kai Treasure

Tiki Mug

A creamy grapefruit-and-orgeat tiki blend from the Hawaii Kai's NYC heyday.
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Bali Hai Special

Hurricane

The third member of the Bali Hai Restaurant trio, a passion-fruit-and-orange tropical built on three rums.
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Don's Special Daiquiri

Coupe

Donn Beach's 1970s honey-and-passion-fruit reformulation of his 1934 Mona Daiquiri, a Hollywood riff on the Cuban daiquiri template.
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Tonga Punch

Collins

Trader Vic's mid-century tropical punch, scaled from his 1946-47 communal bowl recipe.
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Lapu Lapu

Snifter

A communal passion fruit and rum giant named for the chief who killed Magellan.
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Volcano Bowl

Volcano Bowl

A four-person sharing bowl from The Luau with a flaming 151 reservoir and three-rum tropical base.
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Blue Hawaii

Hurricane

Harry Yee's electric-blue hotel-bar postcard from 1957 Honolulu, curaçao, rum, vodka, and pineapple.
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Demerara Cocktail

Double Old-Fashioned

A simple, rum-forward Donn-era proto-cocktail in the Demerara family, lime, demerara syrup, aged Demerara rum, and a dash of Angostura.
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Mutiny

Snifter

The Mai-Kai's dark-and-tropical hybrid, coffee, passion fruit, and three rums under a frothy blend.
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Grog

Mug

Admiral Vernon's 1740 Royal Navy ration of rum cut with water, the proto-cocktail of the British fleet.
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Doctor Funk of Tahiti

Highball

Trader Vic's tamer take on the Samoan medicinal limeade, Jamaican rum, absinthe whisper, grenadine.
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Sumatra Kula

Highball

One of Donn Beach's earliest creations, a honey-sweetened tropical with no pineapple in sight.
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Cobra's Kiss

Double Rocks

Mariano Licudine's polished Mai-Kai variant of Donn Beach's Cobra's Fang, lifted with Pernod.
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K.O. Cooler

Double Old-Fashioned

Mariano Licudine's Mai-Kai adaptation of Donn Beach's Q.B. Cooler, three rums, grapefruit, honey, falernum, and a whisper of Pernod.
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Headhunter (Kahiki)

Moai Mug

Sandro Conti's Kahiki Supper Club blend of orange, pineapple, soursop, and split rums.
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Banana Daiquiri

Coupe

Floridita-lineage frozen daiquiri made with banana liqueur, ripe banana, and lime over crushed ice.
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Don's Pearl

Coupe

Donn Beach's ancestor of the Mai-Kai's Hidden Pearl, guava, passion fruit, and a butter-honey cream.
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Pi-Yi

Tiki Mug

A two-rum tropical blend traditionally served inside a hollowed-out small pineapple.
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Bumbo

Mug

The colonial sailor's spiced grog of rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg, served warm or cold.
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Trader Vic's Grog

Double Rocks

Trader Vic's tart Jamaican grog with passion fruit, pineapple, and a hard shake over double rocks.
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Tiki Puka Puka

Tiki Mug

A Trader Vic original built on his Navy Grog Mix, equal parts lime, grapefruit, and allspice dram.
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Doctor Funk's Son

Highball

Trader Vic's son-of recipe to the Doctor Funk family, the absinthe is dropped and a Demerara overproof float steps in for the medicinal bite.
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Captain's Grog

Double Rocks

A three-rum grog with vanilla and almond extracts, Smuggler's Cove's spin on a Captain's Inn original.
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Deep Sea Diver

Pearl Diver Glass

Mariano Licudine's Mai-Kai descendant of Donn Beach's Pearl Diver, gold Jamaican, honey-butter cream, Don's Spices
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Special Reserve Daiquirí

Ice Shell Coupe

Mai-Kai single-rum descendant of Donn Beach's Mona Daiquiri, Appleton 12, lime, honey, a whisper of fassionola, served in an ice shell.
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Tahitian Tantalizer

Tiki Mug

Donn Beach catalog tropical, gold Jamaican, light Puerto Rican, lime, pineapple, passion fruit, falernum, Don's Mix.
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Tahitian Pearl

Cocktail

Trader Vic's lean rum-lime-maraschino sour, a tropical riff on the fancy daiquiri served on shaved ice.
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Yeoman's Grog

Double Old-Fashioned

Mariano Licudine's hybrid Navy Grog, Donn's three-rum honey-and-grapefruit base with the allspice whisper Trader Vic added.
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Montego Bay

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's 1940s Jamaican-themed cousin to the Navy Grog, pot-still rum, honey, grapefruit, and a whisper of allspice and Pernod.
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Kahiki Mystery Drink

Ceremonial Bowl With Smoking Volcano

The Kahiki Supper Club's gong-and-Mystery-Girl ceremony, a flaming, smoking, volcano-centered bowl for four.
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Smoking Eruption

Volcano Bowl

A four-rum volcano-bowl pour from the Kahiki Supper Club, with a flaming lime shell and dry-ice fog.
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Never Say Die

Highball

Donn Beach three-rum highball, Barbados-Puerto Rican-Jamaican stack over five citrus juices and honey.
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Jungle Bird

Tiki Mug

1973 Kuala Lumpur Hilton creation, the dark rum and Campari tiki cocktail revived by the modern craft era.
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Q.B. Cooler

Double Rocks

Donn Beach's three-rum honey-and-ginger cooler, widely cited as a Mai Tai precursor.
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Last Rites

Double Old-Fashioned

Martin Cate's smoky Smuggler's Cove riff layering mezcal under blended aged rum, with falernum, pineapple, and a double dash of Angostura.
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Aku-Aku Lapu

Tiki Barrel Mug

A three-rum Las Vegas tiki blender drink from the Stardust Aku-Aku, falernum, four citrus juices, and Lemon Hart 151.
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Banana Cow

Wine Glass

Trader Vic's banana-and-milk rum breakfast tonic from his 1946 Book of Food and Drink.
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Tahitian Breeze

Stemmed Tiki Glass

Mai-Kai descendant of Donn Beach's Tahitian Rum Punch, a banana-vanilla, passion-and-guava blender drink threaded with falernum.
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Black Marlin

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach 1937-era dark-Jamaican sour, citrus-and-honey forward with a Pernod-and-bitters perfume.
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Bahia

Collins

A creamy white-rum precursor to the Pina Colada, with cream of coconut and pineapple juice.
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Wahine

Tiki Mug

Stephen Crane's Luau-era tropical of pineapple, passion fruit, and split light and gold rum, "wahine" is Hawaiian for woman.
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Headhunter (Hawaii Kai NYC)

Tiki Mug

Mannie "Blackie" Andal's Hawaii Kai NYC tropical of papaya, peach, and split Demerara rums, distinct from the Kahiki drink of the same name.
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Castaway

Pilsner

Beachbum Berry's three-ingredient pineapple-coffee-rum cooler, evolved from a New York shot into a tall tiki sleeper.
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Pago Pago Cocktail

Coupe

A pre-Donn daiquiri variant with green Chartreuse and white crème de cacao, the bare-bones precursor to the muddled-pineapple Pago Pago of 1940.
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Ancient Mariner

Double Old-Fashioned

Beachbum Berry's modern-revival riff on the Navy Grog, splitting Demerara and dark Jamaican rum and accenting with grapefruit and allspice dram.
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Tortola

Tiki Mug

A rum-and-citrus tiki sipper named for the British Virgin Islands' largest island, in the Caribbean planter's-punch tradition.
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Skull and Bones

Skull Mug

Donn Beach's elaborate skull-mug original, the more ornate predecessor of the Shrunken Skull.
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Aku-Aku Lapu Lapu

Hollowed Pineapple

The Stardust Aku-Aku's communal scaling of the Aku-Aku Lapu, sized for two-to-four in a hollowed pineapple, with a passion-fruit dimension absent from the single serve.
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Cuban Cooler

Highball

The unsweetened Cuban precursor to the Cuba Libre, light rum, ginger ale, lime, straight out of the pre-Prohibition Havana playbook.
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Donga Punch

Highball

Donn Beach's 1937 agricole punch with grapefruit and cinnamon, a West Indian planter's-punch template wearing a Polynesian-sounding name.
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Rum Barrel

Rum Barrel Mug

Donn Beach's potent multi-rum punch served in a wooden barrel mug, citrus-forward and spiced.
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Hawaiian Eye

Hurricane

Harry Yee's 1959 Shell Bar creation, named for the TV series and built on grapefruit and guava.
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Luau Daiquirí

Coupe

Stephen Crane's Beverly Hills Luau Daiquirí, orange and vanilla over the Floridita template, recovered by Beachbum Berry from coded Crane logs.
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Shingle Stain

Chimney

Trader Vic's 1946 dark Jamaican-and-agricole sour, named for the bloody-red stain pimento dram and grenadine leave on the shaker tin.
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Tahitian Coffee

Heatproof Mug

Polynesian Pop-era hot coffee drink with split aged rums, vanilla, and a whipped cream cap.
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Black Stripe

Mug

A pre-tiki rum-and-molasses warmer from Jerry Thomas's 1862 Bar-Tender's Guide, proto-tiki by way of the colonial sugar trade.
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Tradewinds

Footed Pilsner (Or Zombie Glass Per Smuggler's Cove)

A split-rum tiki sour with apricot and coconut, Smuggler's Cove's adaptation of a Berry obscurity.
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Nui Nui

Chimney

Donn Beach's 1937 spiced rum sour, decoded by Beachbum Berry from the original Don the Beachcomber notebooks.
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Kelly's Demise

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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Tortuga No. 2

Coupe

Trader Vic's stripped-down 1948 follow-up to the original Tortuga, light Puerto Rican rum, vermouth, cacao, and a touch of curaçao and grenadine.
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Mona Mona

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.
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Big Bamboo

Bamboo Mug

Mariano Licudine's secret-menu Mai-Kai pour, reserved for Okole Maluna Society members who'd finished all 48 drinks on the menu.
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Black Pearl

Rocks

A modern bourbon-and-blackstrap sipper from Lani Kai NY, structurally a tiki-leaning Old Fashioned.
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Hot Buttered Rum (Donn spec)

Heatproof Mug

Donn Beach's 1940s tiki-era reformulation of Hot Buttered Rum, split Jamaican / Demerara with the Gardenia Mix butter batter.
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Cradle of Life

Double Old-Fashioned

Smuggler's Cove modern-revival drink layering Cynar's bittersweet artichoke spine under Smith & Cross funk, pineapple, and orgeat.
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Don's Own Grog

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's self-attributed 1937 grog, a three-rum blend laced with blackberry liqueur, demerara, and a dash of grenadine.
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Hala Kahiki

Collins

Donn-era pineapple-driven rum cooler whose Hawaiian name (literally pineapple) was later borrowed by the Hala Kahiki Lounge in River Grove, Illinois.
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Don's Special Planter's Punch

Collins

Donn Beach's two-rum honey-and-lemon Planter's Punch from his 1937 menu, a Don the Beachcomber riff on the Jamaican original.
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Cuban Special

Coupe

Pre-tiki Havana cocktail of light Cuban rum, pineapple, lime, and curaçao, a 1930s cantinero's variation on the Daiquiri template.
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Shark's Tooth

Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's two-rum cherry-laced sipper, with a side shot of Jamaican rum to add at will.
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Daiquiri Mulata

Coupe

Constante's dark-rum Daiquirí with crème de cacao, coffee, cacao, and lime blended over crushed ice into a Havana dessert pour.
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Cuban Kiss

Coupe

A pre-tiki Cuban-American daiquiri variation, white rum brightened by cherry brandy and a kiss of pineapple.
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Aku Shark

Tiki Mug

Stardust Aku-Aku-era Polynesian-Pop blender drink, three rums over lime, passion fruit, and pineapple, served deep and dark.
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152 (One-Fifty-Two)

Double Old-Fashioned

Smuggler's Cove riff on the 151 Swizzle, the joke being one extra ounce of black rum floated on top of the 151, hence one-fifty-two.
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Mai-Kai Mule

Highball

The Mai-Kai's house mule, a Mariano-original rum, ginger beer, and bitters build, distinct from any Moscow Mule lineage.
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Hot Buttered Pineapple

Heatproof Mug

Donn-era tropical riff on Hot Buttered Rum, Jamaican rum, hot pineapple juice, and the Gardenia butter batter in place of hot water.
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Coral Reef

Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach catalog rum sour with grapefruit, lime, and a touch of grenadine, a structural cousin to the Beachcomber's Punch.
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Mahukona

Highball

One of Trader Vic's quiet 1946 creations, a pineapple-and-lemon rum cooler named for the Big Island sugar port.
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Floridita Daiquiri No. 2

Coupe

The grapefruit-juice Floridita Daiquirí, Constante's house variant that prefigures the Hemingway by a generation.
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Floridita Daiquiri No. 5

Coupe

The orange-juice Floridita Daiquirí, Constante's softest house variant, lime and orange together over light Cuban rum.
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Expedition

Kuhiko Tiki Mug (Or Other 16-Oz Mug Or Glass)

Martin Cate's Smuggler's Cove original, bourbon, black blended rum, and New Orleans coffee liqueur over three house syrups, framed around Donn Beach's NOLA-to-Caribbean-to-Southern-California biographical arc.