A Daiquiri pushed into the tropics, with gold Jamaican rum and a lighter rum sharing the base while passion fruit and honey lay a rich, fruity sweetness over tart lime. Blended into a frozen slush with crushed ice, it drinks cold, bright and lush, and half a fresh passion fruit on top adds a perfumed hit with every sip.
Garnish: Fruit Garnishes
Blended · Footed copo glass · Crushed
blend
Add the gold Jamaican rum, white (Cuban) rum, passion fruit syrup, lime juice, and honey syrup to a blender with a scoop of crushed ice. Blend for just a few seconds.
strain
Pour the blended mixture, unstrained, into a footed copo glass.
build
Fill the glass with additional crushed ice to top.
garnish
Garnish with half a fresh passion fruit.
The name points to Donn Beach — born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt — whose Hollywood bar, Don the Beachcomber, became known for named rum drinks such as the Zombie and the Navy Grog. No reliable record credits him, or anyone else, with creating this particular daiquiri, so its tie to him rests on the name and on the tiki tradition associated with his bar rather than on a documented invention. It reached official status in 2024, when the IBA added it to its New Era tiki list with a fixed recipe built on gold Jamaican and Cuban rums.