#297 Cocktail: Zombie

     You wanna get drunk fast? There are 2 drinks that can fulfill that wish, Long Island Ice-Tea and this one.....Zombie.
      It first appeared in late 1934, invented by Donn Beach at his Hollywood Don the Beachcomber restaurant. It was popularized on the East coast soon afterwards at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
       Legend has it that Donn Beach originally concocted the Zombie to help a hung-over customer get through a business meeting.The customer returned several days later to complain that he had been turned into a zombie for his entire trip. Its smooth, fruity taste works to conceal its extremely high alcoholic content. Don the Beachcomber restaurants limit their customers to two Zombies apiece because of their potency, which Beach said could make one "like the walking dead."

2 ounces Anejo rum

1 ounce light rum

1 ounce dark rum

1/2 fresh lime juice

3/4 ounce pineapple juice

1/4 ounce apricot brandy

1/4 ounce 151-proof rum

Angostura bitters to taste

#243 Cocktail: Rum Runner

   A really tricky cocktail. When I say "tricky", I don't mean that it's hard to make it or uses some unusual ingredients. Nothing like that. It is tricky, because it might make you think that it's an inoffensive, sweet and gentle cocktail......until it will make you fall off the chair. so be very careful.
   The cocktail was made by Gaz Regan, using a combination of recipes found on the web. The cocktail is very tasty and refreshing, but it is  strong.

2 ounces 151-proof rum

1 1/2 ounce blackberry brandy

1 ounce creme de banane

1/2 fresh lime juice

grenadine to taste

#34 Cocktail: Bahama Mama

     The Bahama Mama is another of those enigmatic drinks with widely varying recipes, of which none seem to be "official" or "original". The common elements are rum, pineapple juice, and citrus. It says that this is a favorite drink in the Bahamas. From what I read, the Bahama Mama is also a woman from the Bahamas normally with a big "behind". So probably the name of the drink was inspired by this. Well, will never know

    Anyway, the Bahama Mama is a delicious drink in the true tiki style

1/4 ounce Kahlua

1/2 ounce dark rum

1/2 ounce coconut liqueur

1/2 ounce 151-proof rum

1 ounce fresh lemon juice

4 pineapple juice

#21 Cocktail: AWOL

    The AWOL cocktail is rather new cocktail and the name comes from the aerosol machine using alcohol.
     AWOL was gimmicked as an alcohol "vaporizer" (heat the chemical to vapor) but is in fact a nebulizer (mixes the chemical with oxygen into small mist droplets).
    There are several recipes for this cocktail, but the one that I made (taken from Gary Regan's "The joy of Mixology) is adapted from a recipe by New Orleans bartender Lane Zellman
     The drink must be shot back in one go to get the full effect

3/4 ounces melon liqueur

3/4 ounces chilled pineapple juice

3/4 ounces vodka

3/4 ounces 151-proof rum