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.
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.
The original Cuban Daiquiri, rum, lime, and sugar built over cracked ice and sipped through a straw.
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.
Donn Beach's Morse-code "V for victory" toast, rhum agricole, Demerara, honey, and allspice dram.
New Orleans' Pat O'Brien's wartime two-rum and passion-fruit slammer, born of a 1940s rum oversupply, originally Demerara-heavy.
Donn Beach's overproof Demerara stinger, kicked with passion fruit, falernum, and his signature absinthe-bitters.
Cairo wartime hangover cure of gin, brandy, lime, and ginger beer, traditionally served in a ceramic two-faced head mug at Shepheard's Hotel.
Donn Beach's two-rum signature laced with his trademark Pernod-and-bitters secret combination.
A pre-tiki Havana daiquiri variation with pineapple and apricot brandy, praised by Charles H. Baker.
Donn Beach's honey-butter Gardenia Mix cocktail, once famously served with a hidden pearl prize inside.
The rhyming Jamaican rum-punch formula in template form, one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak.
Aged Cuban rum stirred with blanc vermouth, curaçao, and a whisper of grenadine, Havana's pre-Prohibition aperitif.
Trinidadian mint-and-Demerara swizzle crowned with bitters that bleed down through the crushed ice.
A Bermuda-born daiquiri spiked with falernum and Cointreau, perfected in Trader Vic's 1947 guide.
Donn Beach's daiquiri-style two-rum freeze with Cointreau and falernum, found in Mariano Licudine's notebook.
Havana's classic five-ingredient highball, rum, lime, sugar, mint, and soda, descended from El Draque.
Havana's turn-of-the-century cola-and-rum highball, three ingredients, one revolution-era toast.
Prohibition-era Havana cocktail named for the silent-film star, rum, pineapple, grenadine, maraschino.
Trader Vic's three-spirit sneaker, rum, gin, brandy with citrus, orgeat, and a cream sherry float.
A Havana-born pink daiquiri, legally bound to Bacardi rum by a 1936 court ruling.
Trader Vic's slushy rum-and-brandy bowl-cocktail in single-serve form, citrusy and orgeat-rich.
Donn Beach's pre-blender-era frozen mint-and-pineapple cooler, built with whole fruit and herb.
Martinique's national drink, rhum agricole, lime, and cane syrup, prepared by each drinker to taste.
Bermuda's national drink, Black Seal rum churned with citrus, pineapple, and a dash of bitters.
Donn Beach's tart, dry, passion-fruit-driven Demerara sour, finished with a high-proof rum float, the canonical Demerara Float.
Constante Ribalaigua's house Daiquirí at El Floridita, the canonical shaken rum, lime, and sugar template that fixed the modern spec.
Constante's frozen Daiquirí with maraschino, the most-ordered Floridita pour and the technical parent of the Hemingway.
The 1915 Raffles Long Bar gin sling, cherry liqueur, pineapple, and Benedictine in a tropical pour.
Brazil's national cocktail, three ingredients only: cachaça, lime, and sugar muddled together.
Trader Vic's multi-juice rum sour with chocolate, orange, and vermouth, a tribute to Constantino Ribalaigua.
A pre-tiki Cuban honey daiquiri lifted with brut champagne, first stamped on a 1930 Bacardi pamphlet.
Bermuda's trademarked storm-cloud highball, a float of Black Seal over Stormy ginger beer.
An 18th-century New England tavern staple, dark rum, butter, and warming spices in a steaming mug.
Donn Beach's 1970s honey-and-passion-fruit reformulation of his 1934 Mona Daiquiri, a Hollywood riff on the Cuban daiquiri template.
A simple, rum-forward Donn-era proto-cocktail in the Demerara family, lime, demerara syrup, aged Demerara rum, and a dash of Angostura.
Admiral Vernon's 1740 Royal Navy ration of rum cut with water, the proto-cocktail of the British fleet.
Trader Vic's tamer take on the Samoan medicinal limeade, Jamaican rum, absinthe whisper, grenadine.
The colonial sailor's spiced grog of rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg, served warm or cold.
The unsweetened Cuban precursor to the Cuba Libre, light rum, ginger ale, lime, straight out of the pre-Prohibition Havana playbook.
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel's Princess Kaiulani, gin, pineapple, lemon, and orgeat in a chilled coupe.
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.
Donn Beach's 1937 spiced rum sour, decoded by Beachbum Berry from the original Don the Beachcomber notebooks.
Pre-tiki Havana cocktail of light Cuban rum, pineapple, lime, and curaçao, a 1930s cantinero's variation on the Daiquiri template.
One of Trader Vic's quiet 1946 creations, a pineapple-and-lemon rum cooler named for the Big Island sugar port.
The grapefruit-juice Floridita Daiquirí, Constante's house variant that prefigures the Hemingway by a generation.
The orange-juice Floridita Daiquirí, Constante's softest house variant, lime and orange together over light Cuban rum.