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.
Donn Beach's two-rum signature laced with his trademark Pernod-and-bitters secret combination.
The rhyming Jamaican rum-punch formula in template form, one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak.
Donn Beach's three-rum almond-and-Pernod sipper served in an iced champagne saucer.
Donn Beach's anise-tinged Jamaican rum cooler named after Robert Louis Stevenson's Samoan physician.
Donn Beach's flaming hot coffee with spiced butter batter and a flaming float of overproof rum.
Mai-Kai's secretive coffee-laced rum elixir, served in a brandy snifter over crushed ice.
Donn Beach-era multi-citrus punch with white wine, banana liqueur, and a vanilla whisper.
Mariano Licudine's polished Mai-Kai variant of Donn Beach's Cobra's Fang, lifted with Pernod.
Mariano Licudine's Mai-Kai adaptation of Donn Beach's Q.B. Cooler, three rums, grapefruit, honey, falernum, and a whisper of Pernod.
Trader Vic's tart Jamaican grog with passion fruit, pineapple, and a hard shake over double rocks.
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.
Mariano Licudine's Mai-Kai descendant of Donn Beach's Pearl Diver, gold Jamaican, honey-butter cream, Don's Spices
Mai-Kai single-rum descendant of Donn Beach's Mona Daiquiri, Appleton 12, lime, honey, a whisper of fassionola, served in an ice shell.
Donn Beach catalog tropical, gold Jamaican, light Puerto Rican, lime, pineapple, passion fruit, falernum, Don's Mix.
Mariano Licudine's hybrid Navy Grog, Donn's three-rum honey-and-grapefruit base with the allspice whisper Trader Vic added.
Donn Beach's 1940s Jamaican-themed cousin to the Navy Grog, pot-still rum, honey, grapefruit, and a whisper of allspice and Pernod.
Donn Beach three-rum highball, Barbados-Puerto Rican-Jamaican stack over five citrus juices and honey.
1973 Kuala Lumpur Hilton creation, the dark rum and Campari tiki cocktail revived by the modern craft era.
Donn Beach's three-rum honey-and-ginger cooler, widely cited as a Mai Tai precursor.
Donn Beach 1937-era dark-Jamaican sour, citrus-and-honey forward with a Pernod-and-bitters perfume.
Beachbum Berry's three-ingredient pineapple-coffee-rum cooler, evolved from a New York shot into a tall tiki sleeper.
Beachbum Berry's modern-revival riff on the Navy Grog, splitting Demerara and dark Jamaican rum and accenting with grapefruit and allspice dram.
Trader Vic's 1946 dark Jamaican-and-agricole sour, named for the bloody-red stain pimento dram and grenadine leave on the shaker tin.
Polynesian Pop-era hot coffee drink with split aged rums, vanilla, and a whipped cream cap.
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.
A Donn Beach deep cut named for the lost 30-year Myers's Mona rum that defined the Beachcomber's 1930s daiquiri-family bar.
Mariano Licudine's secret-menu Mai-Kai pour, reserved for Okole Maluna Society members who'd finished all 48 drinks on the menu.
Donn Beach's 1940s tiki-era reformulation of Hot Buttered Rum, split Jamaican / Demerara with the Gardenia Mix butter batter.
Smuggler's Cove modern-revival drink layering Cynar's bittersweet artichoke spine under Smith & Cross funk, pineapple, and orgeat.
Donn Beach's self-attributed 1937 grog, a three-rum blend laced with blackberry liqueur, demerara, and a dash of grenadine.
Donn-era pineapple-driven rum cooler whose Hawaiian name (literally pineapple) was later borrowed by the Hala Kahiki Lounge in River Grove, Illinois.
Donn Beach's two-rum honey-and-lemon Planter's Punch from his 1937 menu, a Don the Beachcomber riff on the Jamaican original.
Donn-era tropical riff on Hot Buttered Rum, Jamaican rum, hot pineapple juice, and the Gardenia butter batter in place of hot water.
Donn Beach catalog rum sour with grapefruit, lime, and a touch of grenadine, a structural cousin to the Beachcomber's Punch.