Zombie Cocktail - This Offends My Sensibilities! - Cocktails After Dark

Zombie Cocktail - This Offends My Sensibilities! - Cocktails After Dark
David Embury wrote in his 1948 Cocktail book: "ZOMBIE This is undoubtedly the most overadvertised, overemphasized, overexalted, and foolishly feared drink whose claims to glory ever assaulted the eyes and ears of the gullible American public." Yeah... he doesn't like it all that much.
Zombie Cocktail:
1 teaspoonful Sugar Syrup
⅓ to ¾ ounce Lime Juice
¾ ounce fresh Pineapple Juice
1 ounce White Label Rum
2 ounces Gold Label Rum
1 ounce Jamaica Rum
2 teaspoonfuls Apricot Liqueur
⅓ to ¾ ounce mysterious ingredient?
The above ingredients are shaken with crushed ice and poured, with the ice, into a Zombie glass (a 14- to 16. ounce Collins glass will do just as well). From ½ to 1 teaspoonful of 151-proof Demerara rum is then floated
on top and the drink is decorated with slices of orange and lemon, pink and green cherries, a pineapple stick, and several sprigs of mint. Finally, powdered sugar is sprinkled over all. And there,
brother, is your Zombie, grandfather of all pixies, and great-uncle to the gremlins.
This, of course, is not a cocktail at all but a tall drink.
However, since it is commonly, although erroneously, referred to as a ZOMBIE COCKTAIL, I am putting the formula here near the end of the cocktail recipes and, it you please, as an introduction to the chapter on tall drinks
Some Days I don't know why I even bother... This has been another of those videos where I've received a landslide of negative comments filled with expletives. If you swear, if you call me an idiot or moron for any reason - you're removed from the comments. Deleted, simple as that.
If you then follow up with an expletive filled email; well that says a lot about your personality doesn't it.
Just because I didn't use your favourite rum, Just because I didn't use your favourite cocktail writers recipe, Just because I didn't use a straw, Just because I didn't float extra ice on top; doesn't mean I did it wrong.
I chose this recipe from the 100s of cocktail books I own because I thought that David Embury's take on it was interesting. I have all of Don the Beachcombers books, I have all of Trader Vic's books I have dozens of possible formulations for this cocktail that I could have chosen.
But I didn't, so get over it.
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