This past Friday after a long and stressful day at work I developed a real urge for some vitamin-C and booze and what better way to get both than from the King Kong of all things Tiki...The Zombie. I'm talking about the 1934 "Original" Tiki Monster invented by Don Beach and not the Romero or Voodoo kind.I'm pretty sure I had at least 4 but possibly as many as 6 interspersed with some beer before I drifted off to my Skull Island slumber.I woke up feeling great, no doubt from the massive doses of vitamin-C that my body had been craving.
What do you guys think is a sane number to drink in an afternoon? The Zombie (1934) Ingredients: 3/4 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 oz. Don's Mix
1/2 oz. Falernum
1 1/2 oz. 80 proof Gold Puerto Rican Rum
1 1/2 oz. 80 proof Aged Jamaican Rum
1 oz. 151-proof Lemon Hart Demerara Rum
1 Dash. Angostura Bitters
6 drops. (1/8 tsp.) Pernod
1 tsp. Grenadine
6 oz. (3/4 cup) Crushed Ice
(I've been substituting St. Vincent Sunset 169 Proof Rum for the 151-proof Lemon Hart)
5-6 sounds reasonable given the recipe you've most graciously provided. In my esteem, Beachcomber Don is basically the Picasso of the cocktail world, and the Zombie rates as one of his finest works. What really pulls the whole drink together is good rum and falernum as a backbone with the right citrus sour mix for counterweight. It might be worth tracking down some pomegranate or blood orange liqueur to substitute for grenadine, assuming you're working in the lab at home.
Badfellow wrote:5It might be worth tracking down some pomegranate or blood orange liqueur to substitute for grenadine, assuming you're working in the lab at home.
Yes, more booze, just what the Zombie needs...I like the cut of your jib.
Ya know, I have never been to a proper tiki bar. Kind of embarrassed to admit that. I know there are none in my Podunk part of PA. Pretty sure Harrisburg doesn't have any either. I wonder in Baltimore does? Maybe I can find one in Tampa next time we visit the wife's family.
Now you're ready for some anti-dry-otics!-BeerMakesMeSmarter
If worms had daggers, birds wouldn't fuck with them-Todd Snider
Badfellow wrote:5It might be worth tracking down some pomegranate or blood orange liqueur to substitute for grenadine, assuming you're working in the lab at home.
Yes, more booze, just what the Zombie needs...I like the cut of your jib.
Hear that, Badfellow?...Doc C says he'd like to cut your jib.
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"I wanted a shark high on crack dumped into a piranha tank! I wanted college AD's to pull their human faces off, then dive at each other's lizard throats!" -- waahoohah
Before the revolution, I was employed as a jib cutter in Cuba. Of course, it was daiquiris in those days rather than zombies, and instead of cutting jibs we just ended up getting drunk a lot.
Here's the other zombie ingredient I forgot to mention: apricot brandy. It comes up frequently in zombie recipes from the 1960s onward, particularly in places where the more exotic ingredients might be hard to find.
Badfellow wrote:5-6 sounds reasonable given the recipe you've most graciously provided. In my esteem, Beachcomber Don is basically the Picasso of the cocktail world, and the Zombie rates as one of his finest works. What really pulls the whole drink together is good rum and falernum as a backbone with the right citrus sour mix for counterweight. It might be worth tracking down some pomegranate or blood orange liqueur to substitute for grenadine, assuming you're working in the lab at home.
I hunted down a bottle of 'Pama' a pomegranate liqueur which I substituted for grenadine and it worked great.One more step towards the all alcohol Zombie>
Thanks Badfellow for the great idea.
4 for me it seems. The second and last time I had them was a friend's 21st birthday in glasgow. Were in a bar whose name eludes me on ashton lane, and zombies seemed like a great diversion. I woke up 3 hours later on my face in the street about a mile away
"I spent all of my money on cars, women and booze, the rest of it I squandered" G. Best
Playing drinking games whilst drinking Zombies ranks up there with some of my dumbest ideas on a night out. Six or seven were consumed in far too quick a manner for me to feel anywhere near human the next day
