CLASSIC · DARK JAMAICAN RUM

Doctor Funk

Name: Doctor Funk
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 drink
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Dark Jamaican Rum; 15 ml Overproof Rum; 22.5 ml Fresh Lime Juice; 15 ml Grenadine; 7.5 ml Absinthe; 60 ml Soda Water; Lime Wheel

Rum, lime, grenadine and absinthe, lengthened with soda — the drink a Samoan doctor allegedly prescribed, and the first tiki cocktail Don ever served.

Ingredients

Dark Jamaican Rum45 ml

Overproof Rum15 ml

Fresh Lime Juice22.5 ml

Grenadine15 ml

Absinthe7.5 ml

Soda Water60 ml

Lime Wheel

Glassware

Collins glass

Chilled.

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Flavor

Lime · Cherry · Anise · Heat (burn)

Estimated profile

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Method

1
Combine the dark rum, overproof rum, lime juice, grenadine and absinthe in a shaker.
2
Add ice and shake hard for 10 seconds.
3
Strain into a collins glass filled with fresh ice.
4
Top with cold soda water.
5
Garnish with a lime wheel and a mint sprig.

The kit for this drink

Ice Glassware Shake and strain Prep and serve

From the Bartender

Named for Dr. Bernard Funk, a physician in Samoa who reportedly mixed absinthe with grenadine and soda for Robert Louis Stevenson. Don the Beachcomber added the rum and put it on his first menu — arguably the drink that started tiki.

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