Post #796155 by arriano on Mon, Jul 8, 2019 3:31 PM

On 2019-07-06 06:41, Swanky wrote:

I've been discussing the Mona Punch with a friend and that's how this started. It seems clear that is a Don drink named for the rum in it, and when that rum ran out, the drink changed names. Some think it's Don's Special Daiquiri, and it was the Mona Punch. I wonder if "Punch" is also a rum name reference. "Zombie Punch" because of Dagger Punch and Appleton Punch rum?

I've wondered about those DtB cocktails named after the rum they were made with -- specifically, Governor General, Mona Punch and Sugar Loaf Punch, which I assume were made with Gilbey’s Governor General, Myers’s Mona and Sugar Loaf rums respectively. I noted in "Sippin' Safari" The Bum states that the Golden Stag was an early DtB cocktail made with a now defunct Golden Stag brand rum. I wonder if they weren't all similar (or even the same) cocktails with just different rums. When I see Cuban Daiquiri and Panama Daiquiri on the same menu, it seems to reinforce that possibility.