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 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.
The rhyming Jamaican rum-punch formula in template form, one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak.
A Bermuda-born daiquiri spiked with falernum and Cointreau, perfected in Trader Vic's 1947 guide.
A "white Mai Tai" Pago Pago variant with tequila, blue curaçao, grapefruit, and orgeat.
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.
The Soggy Dollar Bar's beachfront BVI standard, navy rum, pineapple, cream of coconut, and orange.
A Bahamian beachside rum drink layered with coconut, pineapple, and orange, named for a calypso singer.
The Bahamian national drink, Miss Emily's secret-recipe rum smash with apricot brandy and pineapple.
Donn Beach's tart, dry, passion-fruit-driven Demerara sour, finished with a high-proof rum float, the canonical Demerara Float.
Donn Beach's anise-tinged Jamaican rum cooler named after Robert Louis Stevenson's Samoan physician.
Constante Ribalaigua's house Daiquirí at El Floridita, the canonical shaken rum, lime, and sugar template that fixed the modern spec.
The 1915 Raffles Long Bar gin sling, cherry liqueur, pineapple, and Benedictine in a tropical pour.
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.
Donn Beach-era multi-citrus punch with white wine, banana liqueur, and a vanilla whisper.
Trader Vic's three-spirit citrus sour with sweet sherry float, the Samoan variant of the Fog Cutter, distinguished by reduced rum and brandy.
A streamlined two-rum lime-and-grenadine punch, the simpler ancestor of Skull & Bones.
Donn Beach's grapefruit-cinnamon agricole swizzle, originally published as "Donga Punch."
A 1940 daiquiri-shaped gem with green Chartreuse, white crème de cacao, and muddled pineapple.
A Cobra's Fang cousin from Lanai, Jamaican and Demerara rums lit up with citrus and passion fruit.
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.
The Mr. Bali Hai mug's signature pour, coffee brandy, two rums, and pineapple in a carved moai vessel.
Beachbum Berry's sugar-rimmed rum sidecar, Cointreau and aged Caribbean rum.
The third member of the Bali Hai Restaurant trio, a passion-fruit-and-orange tropical built on three rums.
Donn Beach's 1970s honey-and-passion-fruit reformulation of his 1934 Mona Daiquiri, a Hollywood riff on the Cuban daiquiri template.
A rare bourbon-based tiki drink born at Waikiki's House Without a Key, balancing citrus and demerara.
A communal passion fruit and rum giant named for the chief who killed Magellan.
A four-person sharing bowl from The Luau with a flaming 151 reservoir and three-rum tropical base.
Harry Yee's bourbon-rum-passion fruit punch served with a bamboo back scratcher swizzle.
Harry Yee's electric-blue hotel-bar postcard from 1957 Honolulu, curaçao, rum, vodka, and pineapple.
Trader Vic's tamer take on the Samoan medicinal limeade, Jamaican rum, absinthe whisper, grenadine.
A Mai Tai built on bourbon, "honi honi" means "kiss" in Hawaiian.
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.
A three-rum grog with vanilla and almond extracts, Smuggler's Cove's spin on a Captain's Inn original.
Donn Beach catalog tropical, gold Jamaican, light Puerto Rican, lime, pineapple, passion fruit, falernum, Don's Mix.
Trader Vic's lean rum-lime-maraschino sour, a tropical riff on the fancy daiquiri served on shaved ice.
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.
Martin Cate's smoky Smuggler's Cove riff layering mezcal under blended aged rum, with falernum, pineapple, and a double dash of Angostura.
Trader Vic's banana-and-milk rum breakfast tonic from his 1946 Book of Food and Drink.
Trader Vic's 1947 bourbon sour with orange and orgeat, a non-rum tiki entry that survives in modern revival menus.
Donn Beach 1937-era dark-Jamaican sour, citrus-and-honey forward with a Pernod-and-bitters perfume.
Mannie "Blackie" Andal's Hawaii Kai NYC tropical of papaya, peach, and split Demerara rums, distinct from the Kahiki drink of the same name.
Beachbum Berry's three-ingredient pineapple-coffee-rum cooler, evolved from a New York shot into a tall tiki sleeper.
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.
Beachbum Berry's modern-revival riff on the Navy Grog, splitting Demerara and dark Jamaican rum and accenting with grapefruit and allspice dram.
A rum-and-citrus tiki sipper named for the British Virgin Islands' largest island, in the Caribbean planter's-punch tradition.
Donn Beach's elaborate skull-mug original, the more ornate predecessor of the Shrunken Skull.
Donn Beach's 1937 agricole punch with grapefruit and cinnamon, a West Indian planter's-punch template wearing a Polynesian-sounding name.
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel's Princess Kaiulani, gin, pineapple, lemon, and orgeat in a chilled coupe.
Harry Yee's 1959 Shell Bar creation, named for the TV series and built on grapefruit and guava.
A modern-craft riff on the Suffering Bastard, the joke being that the bartender now suffers building it instead of the bastard customer.
Stephen Crane's Beverly Hills Luau Daiquirí, orange and vanilla over the Floridita template, recovered by Beachbum Berry from coded Crane logs.
Trader Vic's 1946 dark Jamaican-and-agricole sour, named for the bloody-red stain pimento dram and grenadine leave on the shaker tin.
A split-rum tiki sour with apricot and coconut, Smuggler's Cove's adaptation of a Berry obscurity.
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.
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.
A Donn Beach deep cut named for the lost 30-year Myers's Mona rum that defined the Beachcomber's 1930s daiquiri-family bar.
Smuggler's Cove modern-revival drink layering Cynar's bittersweet artichoke spine under Smith & Cross funk, pineapple, and orgeat.
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.
Pre-tiki Havana cocktail of light Cuban rum, pineapple, lime, and curaçao, a 1930s cantinero's variation on the Daiquiri template.
Donn Beach's two-rum cherry-laced sipper, with a side shot of Jamaican rum to add at will.
A pre-tiki Cuban-American daiquiri variation, white rum brightened by cherry brandy and a kiss of pineapple.
Donn Beach catalog rum sour with grapefruit, lime, and a touch of grenadine, a structural cousin to the Beachcomber's Punch.
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.