The most deadly tiki cocktail - 1934 ZOMBIE

The tenth cocktail in Spike's Breezeway Cocktail Hour wouldn't even be known if it weren't for Beachbum Berry. His investigative journalism discovered not only the recipe for Don the Beachcomber's original 'Zombie Punch,' but also the recipe for the mystery ingredient, 'Don's Mix.'
So join us as we delve into the history and recipe of the 1934 Zombie cocktail. This classic tiki drink is a staple of the tropical cocktail scene and has been enjoyed by many for decades. In this video, we'll take you through the origins of the Zombie cocktail and show you how to make it at home. We'll also share some fun facts and variations on the traditional recipe. Whether you're a tiki enthusiast or just looking for a new cocktail to try, this video is a must-watch. Make sure to watch our video and subscribe to our channel for more cocktail history and recipe videos.
You'll need:
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• One fresh lime
• One fresh white grapefruit
• Cinnamon Syrup
• Falernum
• Dark Jamaican rum
• Bacardi 8 or similar gold Puerto Rican rum
• 151-proof Demerara rum
• Angostura Bitters
• Pernod or Absinthe
• Grenadine
• Ice made with purified water
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- The quantities for the recipe are in the video -
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[@RichArtLove]

My Grandfather Lee Healy, who owned perhaps the most popular joint in Hollywood, helped Ernie ( who was a regular Customer) by finding him the original 1930's Hollywood location, vouching for him as a tenant, and also lending him one of his Filipino cook/chefs to run the Beachcomber kitchen (not to mention frequently covering Ernie's bar tab). They were lifetime chums, and grandpa Lee eventually owned, developed, opened, & ran the Don The Beachcomber in Newport Beach (Corona Del Mar) from 1959 to 1966. We might as well say I kind of l lived there when I was a teenager. Lee had/knew all the original drink recipes, and he was such a 'player' he would occasionally slip us kids weak Mai Tais when Mom wasn't looking .

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

Don Wanderer incredible story!

[@HolliewoodOriginal]

Recipe starts at 6:45

[@cirax88]

The lesson to be learned is to not tell your customers the ingredients to the cocktail because you'll just lose a customer.

[@bmiller949]

For me, it is 2 parts: the cocktail and the ambiance of the locale. You can steal the recipe but not the ambiance.

[@nickmorton8998]

Tiki is escapism. Nothing better on a Friday night that relaxing in The Breezeway! Thanks, Spike.🤙🧟‍♂️🍹

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

Nick Morton thanks for watching!

[@clellandm]

Original Zombie is my favorite tiki cocktail. Lots of exacting work to build, but so worth it!

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

Mark Clelland totally! And then super dangerous when you do finally get to drink it! 😂😵

[@gardendesigns4u]

I loved this video Matt, Zombie is my go to cocktail and it was nice to see someone else make one who knows what they are doing! Thanks for all the great Breezeway Cocktail Hour videos, I love them!

[@Yayojayoful]

Great video. I appreciate the express directions to be precise, especially with the Mephisto. So many tiki cocktails turned into licorice bombs before I started using a dropper.

[@sad_clown8741]

This is the most interesting cocktail I’ve ever had. So many layers to dissect while drinking. I swear I can taste every ingredient... or maybe I just think I can. This is a MUST if you love rum and/or tiki. While the ingredients are daunting the end result is worth the price of admission.

[@scottgoyette3154]

This video has me motivated to make these this weekend

[@scottyb2919]

Great video, I would like to see when you make a jet pilot and the comparison between the zombie.

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

SCOTTY B interesting idea 🤔

[@lauraweiss7875]

This recipe is so different from the one in Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log and the Smugglers Cove book. Good news: their all great!

[@jcost0099]

This fun series of videos has compelled me to order more music. My Black Flamingos CDs (two of them) and one from Slowey and the Boats came in yesterday. It makes for the best cocktail chemistry backdrops. Thanks Spike!

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

jcost0099 awesome! Both incredible bands and really nice guys. 👍🏼

[@XrayBluesman]

Me to! And Hula girls!

[@johnathan1453]

I have been binge watching all the videos. So much fun, thanks for adding so much information, and love the out takes.

[@Visaliaipa]

So, just made the Zombie for the first time for me and my boy and man is it good. The wife didn’t like it but I did. I can definitely see why they limit you to just a couple lol.

[@johndicrosta6263]

Such a fun episode. Zombie was my first ever Tiki drink at Trader Sam’s . I was hooked. I only need the cinnamon syrup and grapefruit and I’m good to go on this recipe. Have all the rest. Really killing some time in this airport lounge, Mahalo 🍹🗿

[@DL-fw7xk]

Never had one of these until tonight, and boy did I forget what I was just gonna say

[@kimbye1]

Good times. Worked as a bartender for over 10 years back in the early 2000's, man it was hard to get quality rum.

[@markbowerii7632]

Hey, as a bartender, could you maybe tell me if just any absinthe will work in a zombie? Like I see he's using Mephisto which I gravitate towards because in my are it's cheaper than other more traditional absinthes but still at a high proof. I have a tendency to obsess over every detail of my cocktails and really just want to make sure I get it right.

[@jtodochartaigh6834]

I'm not sure how this would change the flavor profile, but I'm pretty sure all grapefruit in 1934 were far more bitter than those grown today, so at a guess, the original Zombie would have had an edge underlying the sweetness of the Don's Mix.

[@johnnymetallica1039]

Cue Cher! “If I could turn back time…”

[@user-eh5kb1ew8g]

Killer wine quality to do

[@lukaszlanginger]

I just had one, huge fan!

[@MrHighRaw]

Had a night on these last week, I think it was good!

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

I know the feeling...

[@Ephesians-xt4xc]

Thanks for giving this recipe, I wanted to make this drink correctly. I've use to get this drink many years ago in my favorite chinese restaurant, but never made it myself.

[@FleetStreetBarber765]

I'll bet you become a Zombie after drinking this cocktail 🍸🍹🍸🍹😊😊😊

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

yes.

[@frankmartinez4856]

When i grow up 🤔need to drink one 😳😬

[@patanderson7475]

Really enjoying the adventure!

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

Pat Anderson thanks for coming along 👌🏻

[@lrawley1959]

Another great drink and little history at the same time, also GREAT app. Beach bum berry! Back to Total wine for supplies! Thanks Spike!

[@dontheideaguy]

Excellent episode as always -- I'm really enjoying this tiki history class!

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

Don The Idea Guy thanks so much!

[@captainfun63]

Sippin' Safari is a great book! I know the guy who did the Art Direction and layout for that book! Scott Saavedra!

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

captainfun63 ah, cool!

[@benandrovich112]

Still one of my favorite videos of yours Spike! Plus I’m the 100th comment! Aloha!

[@rperry70]

I made and drank 2 of these a few weeks back. Then started doing stupid stuff, like grinding up a roast in the garbage disposal. Spent the rest of the weekend hungover, snaking my clogged drain line! lol

[@Edward135i]

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but last Sunday I made my first ever Zombie, and I liked it so much I made two more, never the less I woke up at 8 am the next day for work feeling like it was my freshman year in college 😂

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

😂😂😂 tasty drinks... but super dangerous ☠️

[@Edward135i]

@@BreezewayCocktailHour Dude, I live in Portland, and me and my Girlfriends favorite bar is Hale Pale (a tiki bar in Portland) we haven't been able to go to for over a year now. I bought all the correct rums, made the syrup's and used the recipe that was in Smuggler's Cove book, it tasted just like Hale Pale, and we went absolutely nuts over it.

[@mariohartmann9829]

First guy, did a Zombie right way. Bravo 🤗

[@Segafishy]

They are my favourite Tiki, I had a big Cuban Tiki Mug that could fit 2 drinks worth in one so I'd mix it and have a long sipping drink.

[@BigDaddysBearCave]

Excellent video spike love this man!!!!

[@melisterpadilla7886]

Hello! Love your Channel! Have to try Puertorrican Rum Don Q. The best!

[@mikepenhall315]

This is by far my favorite. The QB cooler is second

[@erikahernandez8745]

Nice!!!! Thank god i live by THE BAMBOOclub in LBC because now I want a ZOMBIE!

[@MissTEO1]

Just found your channel and have been watching several episodes in a row. LOVE IT. Is Herbsaint an acceptable substitute for the Pernod in the Zombie? Thanks. PS my dad use to drag me to Bahooka for lunch on a weekday when I was a girl. We’d usually be the only customers there, it was so dark I couldn’t see my food. I would have much rather gone to In n Out. But now after all these years, I think I finally understand!

[@mikem4432]

Fantastic Video.

[@johnschick5827]

I'd sit with Thelma " Hot Toddy" Todd who died tragically the next year!

[@MrSottobanco]

In the depths of the Depression, art was created.

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

yessss

[@haptown]

Time to visit the liquor store. Great video.

[@morpiano78]

Rad! Spike

[@JWestLoans]

Awesome video. LemonHart blows Hamilton 151 out of the water. I do love both though.

[@peterpicchi]

Awesome video! What plantation rum was that again?

[@sffoto1969]

My thought too!

[@sad_clown8741]

Shit I just assumed it was 5 year. Now I’m not sure lol

[@FireByTrial1]

Any plans to bring the app to Android? Have no apple devices or plans to get any but would love its content

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

You would have to contact Beachbum Berry about that. I have no clue.

[@smokeytiki3185]

Really great video, Spike! I think you got an extra drop of Pernod in there.

[@toddwarriner8249]

Got the app, now off to the liquor store.

[@noel4854]

8:14 you did 8 drops! 😱

[@cherylmaden5989]

Since it has 151, a lot of places probably used to serve it flaming 🍹🙃

[@H20Spy]

"Frigerator" .... you must have been in Texas recently.

[@aaronwannamaker6506]

The interesting thing here is the comments about Bacardi… if this was a recipe from 1934, I guess consideration would be given that it would’ve been a Cuban rum at the time; before the Bacardi family would have had to flee. That would make for an interesting debate re: Bacardi now vs. Havana Club or was it a complete different beast at the time?

[@davefletch3063]

You have the best life

[@mourning_ghost]

HI! I think you're in So Cal, where do you buy your rums?

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

Hi-Time Liquor in Costa Mesa!

[@HootOwl513]

Not sure where I stole this from, but I like to drop the 6 Gtts of Absinthe in the glass, swirl them around, then chill the glass, while I mix the other components.

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

oooh... I'll try that!

[@natmickan]

I saw that in Anders Erickson’s Zombie, if I’m not mistaken

[@tomasevskiygnativ4424]

What Plantation rum is that? Looks similar to the 5 Year from Barbados

[@MOLRobocop]

Damn. This does seem like an expensive vid to produce.

[@cherylmaden5989]

And in a skull mug

[@johnrios5292]

Can you post your friend Liz's recipe for Falernum, please?

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

I'm not sure what it is... I know that she got it online though.

[@elvistheripper]

@@BreezewayCocktailHour here is the top falernum recipe as far as Im concerned and plays really nicely in the zombie www.google.com/amp/s/www.chowhound.com/recipes/paul-clarkes-falernum-9-28427/amp

[@arnoldshaner3351]

Paul Clarke's Falernum #10 is great. It mixes will 50/50 with John D. Taylor's Velvet Falernum. It's what I use at home.

[@ChrisSlack]

This was posted before I was a loyal fan. Thinking of making these for a Halloween Party this year.

[@erichultgren3781]

I only make Zombies on Easter and Halloween.

[@RB-pr4er]

👍👀

[@David-mg8zu]

How did he discover the secret ingredient after all these years?

[@hadiktiri]

Awesome video brother! 🧟‍♂ - if you ever find yourself in NOLA come visit us at the Four Seasons for a drink

[@asyourattorneyiadvise9063]

yea. I'm so sure Don had all those special Rums and liquors that weren't on the market until a couple years ago.

[@jonsey3645]

OK, what was the "F" liquid?

[@RB-pr4er]

I have a tiki bar how would I send you some pictures if you would like to see them?

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

R B You can send them through our Instagram account @TheHulaGirls I'd love to see!

[@RB-pr4er]

The Hula Girls 👍

[@mikem4432]

six drops of what??

[@MrSottobanco]

Absinthe

[@bLzD209]

You did 7 drops lol

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

Hahaha... whoops

[@abelparedon1952]

Too Much Talking!!!

[@JButt-]

Adam Sandler tends bar. Dope!

[@BreezewayCocktailHour]

I would like Adam Sandler's bank account, please.