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Cocktails
The Elevated Craft Team
This is an original recipe from author, bar owner and historian of tiki culture Jeff "Beachbum" Berry himself. If you can't catch a wave this winter, maybe you can catch a little buzz. Give this one a shake and enjoy.
(Originally published 12/2/22)
1.5 oz. Light Rum
1 oz. Demerara Rum (El Dorado 12 yr)
0.75 oz. Licor 43
0.75 oz. Orange juice
0.75 oz. Pineapple juice
0.75 oz. Passionfruit puree
0.75 oz. Lemon juice
1 dash Tiki bitters (optional)
Combine Rum, Licor 43, Juices, and Bitters in your Elevated Craft Hybrid Shaker.
Add ice and shake for 15 seconds to chill and dilute.
Strain into your Hybrid Cocktail Glass with crushed or pebble ice.
Garnish with Pineapple Fronds and Cocktail Cherry.
If this recipe is making you thirsty then do yourself a favor and pick up a bottle of Plantation Stiggins’ Fancy Pineapple Rum to experiment with and add to this one. While you are in the rum aisle keep an eye out for Plantation 3 Stars and El Dorado as versatile and inexpensive rums to have around. Lastly, Liber & Co makes a nice Tropical Passion Fruit Syrup that works great in this drink.
One of Imbibe magazine’s “25 Most Influential Cocktail Personalities of the Past Century” and one of Drinks International’s “100 Most Influential Figures,” Jeff “Beachbum” Berry is the author of seven books on vintage tropical drinks, which published for the first time anywhere the lost recipes of Tiki’s mid-century golden age. Esquire calls Jeff “one of the instigators of the cocktail revolution” and Food & Wine “one of the world’s leading rum experts,” while The New York Times cites him as “the Indiana Jones of Tiki drinks” and The Los Angeles Times as “A hybrid of street-smart gumshoe, anthropologist and mixologist.”
Jeff’s been featured on the Travel Channel’s “Food Paradise” TV series, The Discovery Channel, PBS Television and National Public Radio; he’s also been profiled in The Washington Post , USA Today, The New York Times and Wine Enthusiast magazine.
Jeff’s original cocktail recipes have been printed in publications around the world, from Bon Appetit and The Huffington Post to over 20 international recipe books, including the venerable Mr. Boston Official Bartenders Guide.
And now Jeff’s drinks are being served at his restaurant in New Orleans, Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29, which has won critical acclaim in Esquire , Playboy, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Houston Chronicle, GQ, Travel + Leisure, Town & Country, Southern Living, New Orleans magazine, and the Food Network.
With Martin Doudoroff, Jeff co-created Total Tiki for iPad and iPhone, a drink recipe app which Macworld magazine calls “beautifully rendered and, thanks to Berry’s tireless reporting, impeccably sourced.”
Jeff’s also co-created a line of Tiki barware with Cocktail Kingdom, which Imbibe hails as “especially notable because it revives old styles of essential glassware that were previously almost impossible to find.”
While this is all way too much work for a bum, Jeff is also developing cocktail-focused rum blends for the Hamilton label and tropical bar syrups with Orgeat Works. He’s also been known to leave his hut to lecture across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.
(From: "About The Bum" on BeachBumBerry.com)