here’s what i took from kaiser penguin’s zombie recipe comparison: a zombie is a complex, carefully proportioned mixture of anything i want to put in it.
i had a hard time finding passionfruit juice, so i used santa cruz ‘passionfruit nectar’ which is a pretty sorry substitute.
i also didn’t feel like buying any 151 just to use in this cocktail. (though i really should since i need to make a new batch of falernum) i substituted with 2 oz of 80 proof rum.
it appears from the recipe-roundup that multiple rums are encouraged, and so i put in a little aged rum. not too much because that brew got a righteous funk on.
1 oz lime + 1 oz lemon (i made a 5x batch, so what i did was squeeze lemons until i surpassed the 5 oz mark, then squeezed limes until i hit (exactly) the 10 oz mark)
1 oz pineapple juice (dole)
1 oz passionfruit syrup (that bullshit nectar shaken with sugar, 4:3 ratio)
1 tsp dark brown sugar
2.5 oz 10 cane rum
0.5 oz brugal aged rum
1.0 oz goslings dark rum
1 dash angostura
shake without ice for 30 seconds (to help dissolve the sugar), then shake with ice.
this tastes like what i think of as a quintessential tropical rum punch. sweet, but not cloying, complex, perfectly balanced, and can definitely get you fucked up real quick.
did you know that ‘charlene‘ by stephen and the colberts is available as a rockband song?
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