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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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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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Hemingway Daiquiri

Coupe

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

Suffering Bastard

Ceramic Head Mug

Cairo wartime hangover cure of gin, brandy, lime, and ginger beer, traditionally served in a ceramic two-faced head mug at Shepheard's Hotel.
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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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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.
Tequila

Vicious Virgin No. 2

Coupe

A "white Mai Tai" Pago Pago variant with tequila, blue curaçao, grapefruit, and orgeat.
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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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Bacardi Cocktail

Coupe

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

Rocks

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

Caipirinha

Rocks

Brazil's national cocktail, three ingredients only: cachaça, lime, and sugar muddled together.
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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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Dark 'n' Stormy

Highball

Bermuda's trademarked storm-cloud highball, a float of Black Seal over Stormy ginger beer.
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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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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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Tonga Punch

Collins

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

Suffering Bartender

Collins

A modern-craft riff on the Suffering Bastard, the joke being that the bartender now suffers building it instead of the bastard customer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Tequila

Mexican El Diablo

Highball

Trader Vic's 1946 tequila-cassis-ginger highball, one of the earliest published tequila cocktails outside of Mexico.
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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.