- Hi, guys, welcome back to the Cocktail Blog.
I'm Steve the Bartender and today I'm making
a well overdue cocktail, the Zombie.
This one is from the Smugglers Cove cocktail book,
which is a slightly adapted from the original recipe,
which was created by Don the Beachcomber.
As you can see,
there's a lot of ingredients sitting on the bar
and it's a pretty potent drink.
But let's get straight into it.
Start off with one of our three rums.
So Smuggler's Cove, the cocktail book,
one of my favorite things is the fact that it references,
a particular style of rum,
i.e. a blended aged rum as opposed to a brand.
So it's very approachable for people
that are trying to recreate the cocktails.
If you don't have that brand,
then there's a list of alternative rums
and it's incredibly informative, that book.
It's a really good rate,
so I'll link to that in the description below.
So first of all, I've got a blended aged rum.
I'm using El Dorado, 12-year.
So at 1.5 ounces, 45 mil.
Thank you to William T. by the way, for the El Dorado,
and thank you Sarah for the Angostura 7.
So 45 mil of a Column Still aged rum.
Thank you Rick W. for the Overproof.
Now this is the one alteration
that I'm making to the recipe,
so there's does call for a dark Overproof.
They call for 30 mil, one ounce.
So a good alternative,
one of their recommendations is Plantation.
We've got 50 mil, half an ounce of the Falernum.
That's right in.
Then we've got three quarter ounce of fresh lime juice
or this leftover from my last cocktail I was making.
And a quarter ounce of a first grapple juice
it's gonna go over that.
7.5 mils quarter ounce, it's right in.
Then quarter ounce of cinnamon syrup, 7.5 mil.
And then the recipe does call for Herbstura,
which is a equal parts blend of Angostura and Herbsaint,
which isn't a nice flavor, look you're,
I don't have Herbsaint, I'm using an Herbsaint,
so, one dash of Angostura and one dash of Herbsaint.
That didn't work too well.
So it calls for flash blending,
and almost forgot the Gremlin.
That was a close call.
So it goes for a half spoon of house-made grenadine.
Well, that's nice and thick.
Just add 12 ounces of crushed ice.
Just guesstimate, really.
You can always top it up later.
And I'm gonna flash blend this off camera.
We'll be back in two seconds.
(blender whirring)
So this is a really big glass.
It's got quite a big volume.
So I'm going to put some crushed ice
before I strain it into there.
That's been flashed blended,
loosely strain it straight in
almost all the way to the top one.
Add a little bit more crushed ice.
(table banking loudly)
Now that it's topped up with ice,
you can garnish it however you please.
It's got grapple fruit juice in there,
so I'm gonna put a slice of red grapple fruit.
I have blackberries on hand,
so I'm going to garnish it with a few blackberries.
And like a pineapple spear,
just anything you really.
Just got over the top.
And I do have a big bunch of mint
isn't looking at flash.
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They have a Zombie well overdue,
it should have been on the channel long time, time ago.
Thank you again to William, Sarah and Rick
for utilizing to buy the backfire feature.
Much appreciated.
They have a very potent Zombie.
You've got four shots of rum in it.
You've got a little bit of falernum,
cinnamon syrup, a bit of spice, a bit of nice,
let's dig in.
Surprisingly, considering how much booze in there,
it actually doesn't taste that strong.
The flash blending I strained over the glass to ice as well,
so adds extra dilution.
There's a lot of flavor in there.
It's intense, it's complex.
The goodness is like --
I love these accents, the cinnamon, the bitters,
and the Naise flavor.
It's very subtle, it comes through
and then you've just got a big punch of rum.
These are incredibly dangerous.
I believe that had a Tucson B rule
and they wouldn't actually serve
people more than two Zombies
for very good reasons because you have two of these in you
and absolute massive.
But that is a delicious drink.
As far as the garnish goes, it's a loop.
I feel like it's a little bit higgledy piggledy.
I probably wouldn't put a Blackberry in a normally,
but it's the kind of fruit
that I had lying around in the fridge.
So yeah, awesome cocktail.
If you have all these ingredients, give it a go,
or if you prefer a different recipe,
let me know and I'll see you soon
for another cocktail video.
Cheers. (Soft upbeat music)