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Although alcohol and survival are not always comfortable bedfellows it only seems right that a special mention should be made to the Zombie cocktail.
Originally invented by Donn Beach of Hollywood's Don the Beachcomber restaurant in the late 1930s. The Zombie is an exceptionally strong cocktail made of fruit juices, liqueurs, and various rums. It gained its name from the effects upon the drinker.
Beach concocted it one afternoon for a friend who had dropped by his restaurant before flying to San Francisco. The friend left after having consumed three of them. He returned several days later to complain that he had been turned into a zombie for his entire trip. Its smooth, fruity taste works to conceal its extremely high alcoholic content. For many years the Don the Beachcomber restaurants limited their customers to two Zombies apiece. According the original recipe, there are the equivalent of 7.5 ounces (2.2 dl) of alcohol in a single Zombie; this is the same as drinking three and a half cocktails made with a fairly generous 2 ounces (0.6 dl) of alcohol per drink. The restaurant limit of two Zombies, therefore, would be the equivalent of 7 regular cocktails such as a Manhattan or Scotch on the rocks.
Here is a Zombie recipe considered to be close to the original Don Beach version.
So if you fancy one here it is.
Ingredients:
4 ounces of water
3/4 ounce of fresh lime juice
1 ounce of fresh grapefruit juice
1/2 ounce of sugar syrup
1 ounce of dark rum
1 ounce of golden rum
1 ounce of white rum
1 ounce of 151-proof rum
1-1/4 ounces of spiced golden rum
3/4 ounce of Cherry Heering
1/2 ounce of Falernum syrup
2 dashes of Pernod or other anisette-flavored pastis
3 dashes of Grenadine
Shake with 4 ice cubes, then pour into 1, 2, or 3 highball glasses that have been filled with crushed ice.
(Information from wikipedia.org)
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