Post #781294 by kkocka on Mon, Nov 6, 2017 11:57 AM

Last night the wife and I inhaled, within minutes, my Aku Aku Zombies served up/daiquiri style. I've been watching Jason Alexander from Tacoma Cabana do this with numerous tiki and exotic cocktails for years - he's quite the master of it. I took his advice (keep the alcohol, reduce everything else) to the best of my ability and made the following adjustments:

Aku Aku Zombie, as by Beachbum Berry Remixed
3/4 oz Puerto Rican aged
3/4 oz dark Jamaican
3/4 oz Demerara overproof
3/4 oz lime
3/4 oz grapefruit
3/4 oz cinnamon syrup
.5 tsp zombie mix (equal parts curacao, pernod, grenadine, falernum)
1 dash bitters

This gives you 2.25 oz of alcohol - not too heavy for a zombie, but for a daiquiri-style drink I think that's just a tad much. I wanted to keep it at 2 oz. I also wanted to not have this drink too wet or juicy, so I reduced the total juice to 1 oz, splitting the lime and grapefruit evenly. The spices (syrup and mix) I kept as-is because I wanted to retain the distinct flavor. I also wanted to ditch the 151 and opted to use Plantation OFTD as well.

Zombie "Daiquiri"
3/4 oz Bacardi 8
3/4 oz Coruba Dark
1/2 oz Plantation OFTD (float at the end/layer via back of a bar spoon)
1/2 oz lime
1/2 oz grapefruit
3/4 oz cinnamon syrup
.5 tsp zombie mix (equal parts curacao, pernod, grenadine, falernum)
1 dash bitters

If I choose to make this again tonight, I'll probably change Coruba for Appleton, possibly reduce the juices again to total 3/4 oz (or not), and maybe dump the cinnamon syrup down to 1/2 oz. But seriously, my wife practically finished in a gulp and I was soon to follow...dangerously delicious to drink! I realize this isn't rocket science but I'm rather proud of myself, haha.

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[ Edited by: kkocka 2017-11-07 10:35 ]