Post #723518 by Swanky on Wed, Jul 23, 2014 9:59 AM

On 2014-07-23 09:48, djmont wrote:
If I weren't so lazy, I'd test some of these out.

I'm curious as to how much one would miss the LH151 in the '34 Zombie if a reasonable substitute was used.

I'm guessing it wouldn't matter too much.

After all, who the hell knows what LH tasted like 80 years ago. There's no reason to think it's all that close to today's version anyway.

A) I often make it with 80 proof instead of 151 and it works fine. Just less potent.
B) We may not know what it tasted like 60 years ago, but someone out there does, like Steven Remsburg, however, just as we do not actually know what #4 is, we do know that using cinnamon syrup gives you a good drink, we know that current LH151 also gives a really good drink.

Although we do not have Dagger Puncg Rum, we can use other rums and get at it. If LH151 today was nothing like it used to be, the drink today would not be very good either.