Zombie Cocktail - This Offends My Sensibilities! - Cocktails After Dark

Zombie Cocktail - This Offends My Sensibilities! - Cocktails After Dark
David Embury wrote in his 1948 Cocktail book: "ZOMBIE This is undoubtedly the most overadvertised, overemphasized, overexalted, and foolishly feared drink whose claims to glory ever a$$aulted the eyes and ears of the gullible American public." Yeah... he doesn't like it all that much.

Zombie Cocktail:
1 teaspoonful Sugar Syrup
to ounce Lime Juice
ounce fresh Pineapple Juice
1 ounce White Label Rum
2 ounces Gold Label Rum
1 ounce Jamaica Rum
2 teaspoonfuls Apricot Liqueur
to ounce mysterious ingredient?

The above ingredients are shaken with crushed ice and poured, with the ice, into a Zombie glass (a 14- to 16. ounce Collins glass will do just as well). From to 1 teaspoonful of 151-proof Demerara rum is then floated
on top and the drink is decorated with slices of orange and lemon, pink and green cherries, a pineapple stick, and several sprigs of mint. Finally, powdered sugar is sprinkled over all. And there,
brother, is your Zombie, grandfather of all pixies, and great-uncle to the gremlins.
This, of course, is not a cocktail at all but a tall drink.
However, since it is commonly, although erroneously, referred to as a ZOMBIE COCKTAIL, I am putting the formula here near the end of the cocktail recipes and, it you please, as an introduction to the chapter on tall drinks


Some Days I don't know why I even bother... This has been another of those videos where I've received a landslide of negative comments filled with expletives. If you swear, if you call me an idiot or moron for any reason - you're removed from the comments. Deleted, simple as that.
If you then follow up with an expletive filled email; well that says a lot about your personality doesn't it.

Just because I didn't use your favourite rum, Just because I didn't use your favourite cocktail writers recipe, Just because I didn't use a straw, Just because I didn't float extra ice on top; doesn't mean I did it wrong.
I chose this recipe from the 100s of cocktail books I own because I thought that David Embury's take on it was interesting. I have all of Don the Beachcombers books, I have all of Trader Vic's books I have dozens of possible formulations for this cocktail that I could have chosen.
But I didn't, so get over it.



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