Aku Aku Zombie (1964 Recipe) - How to Make the Tiki Drink & the History Behind It

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Here are some more links I couldn't fit into my bloated Description. Homemade Syrups: Cinnamon: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnnSdIarjtB-mc0 Falernum: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGXYoaiYi9GNj80 Grenadine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apaVqYGqaJ1ofpY Further Reading: The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia Vol. 1 by Peter Dendle amzn.to/2WXjZDT The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia Vol. 2 by Peter Dendle amzn.to/322Fztf Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now by Amy Wilentz amzn.to/39tnsz0 Other Zombie writings by Amy Wilentz bit.ly/3eX9iaw The Sailor and the Seagull: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2qWiIGHmMapndk

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He's back boys

[@davidstewart3868]

Welcome back! As one of your zombie Tiki followers, I’ll have to make this version tonight.💀☠️

[@banyan55]

Mate, how did you manage such an amazing history lesson in a video about a cocktail recipe? I had no idea about its Haitian origins. Big respect.

[@fabiobusiello4748]

The comeback everyone was waiting for!

[@artemis3120]

Whoa, the production and writing quality on this is so good! This was totally worth the wait. I loved the real world history of Haiti and the horrors of colonialism. Tiki has such a dark history! Thanks for putting out such classy videos!

[@samhaigler1716]

He’s back with a vengeance! Fantastic video! Gotta make it. It took me a while to get everything for the 34, but it was worth it. Glad to see you back!!!

[@patbraun2476]

We missed you!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers!

[@FishRock77]

The best TIki Drink recipe, history, and pop culture channel ever. Keep up the amazing work!

[@boozeontherocks]

Its great to have you back. Awesome history on the zombie in pop culture. Well done!!

[@karolsarosiek9467]

Finally! The guy with the most amazing tiki mugs, best cocktails and last but not least the deepest voice on YT made a new vid! Like always great content!

[@mohnjayer]

It’s about damn time! Looks amazing.

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Great to see these again. This channel got me into Tiki Drinks.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Awesome! Or I'm sorry, depending on how much it's overtaking your life. Haha.

[@ВладимирМаций]

The best cocktail channel still alive!

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Your cocktail videos are the most rewatchable on KZbin. Hoping for more content soon

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Good to see you back! My whole bar and recipes revolve around this guys videos. Simply the best!

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its so great seeing you upload new videos. Please dont let us ever wait that long again. Videos every one or two weeks would be great!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

If only I could...

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Super stoked that you're back

[@ctwiggs]

Awesome drink, awesome mug, awesome channel!!

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I was just thinking about how it's been awhile, and that I hoped you were still doing vids. worth the wait!

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NICCEEEE!!! WELCOME BACK...! MISSED YOU SOOO MUCH.

[@nate451]

Incredible production on this video. Absolutely riveting.

[@inthought4458]

Excellent presentation, from start to finish! The quality of your videos is light years ahead of the current monotony of drink posts on KZbin. Thank you...

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Thanks so much. Glad you liked it so well.

[@doomduck9826]

I came here for a cocktail, not to hear more about the crushing banality of my existence ;) (I'll be having a pair of these tonight, thanks!)

[@g4merpeter]

Greeeeeat video! Always a pleasure when you're uploading

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Its been so... un-smooth without you. Welcome back.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. Cheers!

[@JimmySting]

Clicked this very fast! Amazing video and loved the backstory.

[@aquacitydigital3316]

You don't make Tiki videos. You make Tiki documentaries! Awesome work! #filmmaker

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers! Glad you liked it.

[@Animenji]

Ok, how do you manage to always have such lush mint sprigs? I must know

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Right?

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@@jordesign go to farmers market for it instead of supermarkets who overcharge and give less mint

[@manuzach]

Bro, where have you been in this pandemic when everyone could use a drink everyday 😅

[@maitaioneon]

Great video! Nicely done. Really good background info and I appreciate the good selection of rums you show. Your passion and knowledge comes through.

[@flakbait5771]

Awesome video with some great background info! Welcome back.

[@briancorley1159]

Love it!! Well worth the wait. Great, great video.

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Thanks for posting again I was worried the Covid got ya. I sure missed that smooth as good scotch voice teaching me while I mixed up your newest concoction.

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what up my man! a new distinguished spirits vid?!? today is a good day indeed. thanks for dropping the fire, dawg. always the best!

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Glad to see you, Kanpai!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers!

[@HammerandPipe]

Yes! The big kahuna has returned!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers!

[@vinny9875]

Sweet, I just got some 151 to make zombies from your other video. I’ll try this version next!

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YES! Everyone has been waiting!

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Awesome video yet again.

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really been missing your unique style to these videos

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers! Working on a new one now.

[@roxxen]

It’s like an educational film I wish they showed in school... loooove it 🍹 🧟‍♀️

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. Yeah in tiki school.

[@cpickering]

I didn't expect to pick up an existential crisis from the first two minutes of a cocktail recipe Vizio, but here we are...

[@henriquebravo4516]

Awesome video! As always!

[@prisonerr24601]

Oh cool, tiki drink vid! **existential crisis commences** yup, I'll have that drink now.

[@obediahgarcia7135]

Well done, as always, Sensei!

[@roberto6617]

Made a couple last night for me and my wife. Great drink!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Nice! Wife approved.

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Well worth waiting!

[@kevincorvus3298]

Excellent video as always sir! Cheers!

[@abludwig]

Wow. Incredible videos

[@XRayCatt]

I just saw that The Bum added this recipe to the Total Tiki app. That can't be a coincidence...

[@MartinDoudoroffLLC]

Nicely done!

[@shadowmihaiu]

Great, informative and entertaining, as usual!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Thanks, brother!

[@robertsharpe4414]

Worth the wait getting stuck in to one straight away yahoo

[@sdcorrey]

Made this tonight and it was excellent. I might actually prefer this to the '34 Zombie. Limit 2 per customer for sure!

[@kelevra721]

This was amazing

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Thank you!

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[@jelkehuisman]

2 minutes in and it's getting pretty damn real 😆😅

[@michaelbertovich]

So good. I know what I’m making tonight. Thanks!!! 🍹 🗿

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👏👏 please, stop by sooner next time 🥂

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Yeeeees, a new video!

[@ibnkhaldoun4319]

you gotta do the qb cooler! ive mentioned it before maybe, but that one ive had trouble landing on a recipe for. it’s complex and almost too busy, but such an interesting curio. historically important in tiki even if i find the navy grog to be a far superior drink with a similar profile

[@MrChickster12]

A great video cheers 🍻

[@mower2008]

Glad to see you're still kicking in this coronavirus pandemic. What is a sweet alcohol you would recommend for beginners?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Brandy is sweet and rum is usually sweet. But I’d recommend starting with a sour. A whiskey sour without egg white is really easy to make and easy to drink for someone who’s dipping their toes in the water. Sidecar would be a good one too. But that would take 2 bottles of booze.

[@Edward135i]

4:45 being a Oregonian, I agree with the Salam capital journal.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha

[@udiisaak6913]

Well, I know what's my next tiki cocktail

[@MixDrink]

Интересный напиток и здорово рассказано

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Another killer video! What do you use to print these labels?

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First video, but certainly not the last

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Oh nice! Welcome.

[@garlicgirl3149]

Now I UNDERSTAND!!! I could not figure out why I can't stand Zombie movies of today. But I knew Zombies as they way they were if years gone past and not these flesh eating varmints. Spectacular! Oh I do want to make the mix. These seems like a special occasion drink. Oh and why do I feel like I just went to the movies!!! LOL 😅🎥🎟️

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. Yeah, zombies had a pretty winding road on in their evolution in the public imagination. Glad you were engaged with the story. Let me know what you think if you end up making one.

[@mightytom1]

What was the cartoon with the sailor?

[@6Nicolas]

This is delicious

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

😋

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I want to go to YOUR parties! lol

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Who doesn't?

[@thrilosandalkis94]

A question to any Americans in the comments: Why is the Zombie so hard to find in the US? Or is it just Austin where I recently moved to? I come from a European country and you can find a zombie at basically every bar that makes cocktails, even if it's not a cocktail bar...I've been in so many bars in Austin, and only 2 of them have it (one being a pretty upscale cocktail bar). Even in fucking New York, I couldn't find a zombie and I went in 5-6 different very nice cocktail bars there, none had it...Is it just dead in the US now? Am I just unlucky?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Honestly, you’re not going to find a good one in a lot of bars, even ones with great cocktail programs. You can find them in SOME tiki bars, but they have to be places that really know the classics and try hard to honor them. Part of the problem with this drink being offered, even in tiki bars, is that the recipe for this drink and drinks like it, were secret for decades. So some old school tiki bars still serve the recipe that they created in the 1960’s that they called the Zombie, but that bares little resemblance to Donn’s Aku Aku recipe. And in terms of other non-tiki bars, this is a difficult drink to put together, using esoteric syrups and rums, and even this one is too strong for modern bars.

[@parkerlloyd9860]

Say, what was the cartoon you used in the video?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

It was a navy training film about not getting drunk and spilling secrets.

[@samaragon4794]

how do you have a bottle of Wray and Nephew 17 year??

[@HootOwl513]

I'm lazy enough to use Cinnamon Schnapps instead of making cinnamon syrup. It's got it's own kick.

[@JWestLoans]

Make cinnamon syrup and dump in some wray and nephew overproof white rum. It keeps forever and is awesome.

[@HootOwl513]

@@JWestLoans Sounds interesting, but haven't you then synthesised Cinnamon Schnapps, but with high end Kingston embalming fluid?

[@icemann1037]

good stuff sir! first

[@SanTM]

Uff that voice

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

😉👍

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This shit got kinda dark..... You getting through pandemic ok?

[@proFFessor90]

0,6 + 0,6 + 0,6 + 0,6 = 2,5 close enough D:

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Perfect math. Duh.

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Next video:2022 😝

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

So true. 😩

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M

[@samaragon4794]

how do you have a bottle of Wray and Nephew 17 year??

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

I don’t. 😉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2amp5eHgL6qbLM