To Serve Man

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Recipes

Rum

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.
Rum

Jet Pilot

Double Old-Fashioned

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

Saturn

Pilsner

J. "Popo" Galsini's IBA gold-medal gin tropical, garnished to look like the ringed planet.
Rum

Piña Colada

Hurricane

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

Hemingway Daiquiri

Coupe

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

Pearl Diver

Pearl Diver Glass

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

Beachcomber's Gold

Coupe

Donn Beach's three-rum almond-and-Pernod sipper served in an iced champagne saucer.
Rum

Vicious Virgin

Coupe

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

Scorpion

Double Old-Fashioned

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

Missionary's Downfall

Wine Glass

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

151 Swizzle

Swizzle Cup

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

Aku-Aku

Moai Mug

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

Daiquiri No. 4 (Floridita)

Coupe

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

Black Magic (Mai-Kai)

Snifter

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

Penang Afrididi

Double Old-Fashioned

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

Hawaii Kai Treasure

Tiki Mug

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

Tonga Punch

Collins

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

Mutiny

Snifter

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

Sumatra Kula

Highball

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

Cobra's Kiss

Double Rocks

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

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.
Rum

Headhunter (Kahiki)

Moai Mug

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

Banana Daiquiri

Coupe

Floridita-lineage frozen daiquiri made with banana liqueur, ripe banana, and lime over crushed ice.
Rum

Don's Pearl

Coupe

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

Pi-Yi

Tiki Mug

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

Tiki Puka Puka

Tiki Mug

A Trader Vic original built on his Navy Grog Mix, equal parts lime, grapefruit, and allspice dram.
Vodka

Chi Chi

Hurricane

A Piña Colada built on vodka, Donn Beach's tropical pidgin for "mother's milk."
Rum

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
Rum

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.
Rum

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.
Rum

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.
Rum

Smoking Eruption

Volcano Bowl

A four-rum volcano-bowl pour from the Kahiki Supper Club, with a flaming lime shell and dry-ice fog.
Rum

Q.B. Cooler

Double Rocks

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

Macadamia Nut Chi Chi

Hurricane

The macadamia-nut variant of the Chi Chi, a vodka piña colada with a Hawaiian nut-liqueur layer.
Rum

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.
Rum

Banana Cow

Wine Glass

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

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.
Rum

Bahia

Collins

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

Wahine

Tiki Mug

Stephen Crane's Luau-era tropical of pineapple, passion fruit, and split light and gold rum, "wahine" is Hawaiian for woman.
Rum

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.
Rum

Rum Barrel

Rum Barrel Mug

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

Nui Nui

Chimney

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

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.
Bourbon

Polynesian Paralysis

Tiki Mug

Donn Beach's okolehao-based tiki bowl, with bourbon as the standard substitute for the ti-root spirit.
Rum

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.
Rum

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.
Rum

Aku Shark

Tiki Mug

Stardust Aku-Aku-era Polynesian-Pop blender drink, three rums over lime, passion fruit, and pineapple, served deep and dark.
Rum

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.