The Zombie Cocktail

The Zombie is an umbrella drink that was popular in the cocktail culture of the 1930s.

The cocktail is essentially a rum punch method of temporarily blotting out much of a person's conscious thoughts.

The Zombie's blend of rum and sweet fruit juices, topped with a beguiling cherry-and-pineapple garnish, make it appear an innocent, almost frou-frou beverage. But, beneath its sweet facade, a Zombie packs a punch that once led bartenders to post placards restricting customers to only one Zombie apiece.

There are hundreds of Zombie recipes: some feature Cognac, while others insist on apricot brandy. All, however, require rum, and lots of it.

Zombie Cocktail

Shake ingredients with ice; strain into a chilled pint glass. Garnish with a pineapple wheel and a cherry. Float Demerara rum (151 proof) and sprinkle powdered sugar on top.

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1 oz Apricot Brandy
1 oz light or puerto-rican rum
1 oz dark or jamaican rum
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz lime juice
dashes grenadine
orange juice
1 oz 151

In a cocktail shaker, mix light & dark rums and brandy. Add lemon and lime juice and dashes grenadine. Shake well and strain into a higball glass filled with ice. Fill glass with orange juice leaving room to float 1 oz of 151. Garnish with cherry, orange slice, pinapple wedge.

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