Blue Hawaii

From the Cocktail Database

Shake in iced cocktail shaker & strain
2 oz fresh lime juice (6 cl, 1/2 gills)
1 oz pineapple juice
2 oz vodka or white rum (6 cl, 1/2 gills)
1 1/2 oz blue curacao (4.5 cl, 3/8 gills)
Serve in a double rocks glass (12.0 oz)
Add cherry, pineapple spear

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Hot Buttered Rum

From the kitchen of: Spice Hunter Co.

  • 1 1/2 tablespoons Hot Buttered Rum spices
  • 2 teaspoons butter (optional)
  • 1 jigger rum (optional)
  • 6 ounces of water

Mix ingredients together and serve.

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Spice Hunter Co.

  • 1 full packet (2.3 ounces) Hot Buttered Rum spices
  • 5 tablespoons softened butter

Blend until smooth and refrigerate. When ready to use:

  • 2 tablespoons mixture
  • 6 ounces boiling water
  • 1 jigger of rum
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Zombie

Don the Beachcomber’s Zombie, From the Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails:
Shake in iced cocktail shaker & strain:
1 oz unsweetened pineapple juice (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
1 oz fresh lime juice (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
1 oz fresh lemon juice (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
1 oz passion fruit syrup (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 dash bitters
1 oz light rum (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
1 oz dark rum (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
1 oz 151 rum (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
Dissolve the brown sugar in the lemon juice. Combine it with everything else in a cocktail shaker with crushed ice. Shake well, and pour into a collins glass. Garnish with a mint sprig.
This recipe is apparently the original, quintessential Zombie drink, which, unfortunately, has been altered and messed with over the years.

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