The legendary and mysterious Zombie cocktail was invented by Don the Beachcomber in the 1930s, ostensibly to cure a businessman's hangover. Kaiser Penguin took 6 Zombie recipes and put them all to the taste test. Hopefully not all on the same day, because depending on whose recipe you pick, a single Zombie can contain as much as 7 1/2 oz. of alcohol! The winner? Well, you can go ahead and read the post, but it's the same version I mix up occasionally down in the Hai'deaway when I know that I'm not going to be going anywhere for 24 hours or so.

There's another Zombie recipe that claims to be a Beachcomber original, and it's listed on page 56 of Hawai'i: Tropical Rum Drinks and Cuisine, written posthumously in 2001 by Don's last wife, Phoebe. It's got some very exotic ingredients like 30-year old Cuban and Jamaican rum, Falernum, and Absinthe (!), so I don't think I'm going to be mixin' one up in the old cocktail shaker any time soon.

[Link: Zombie Recipe Comparison]
[Link: Zombie cocktail Wikipedia entry]
[Link: Don the Beachcomber Sahara Hotel Menu]