Bright, tart and bracingly cold, this is white rum and fresh lime sharpened with triple sec and a measured pour of maraschino liqueur, shaken hard and served up in a coupe. The maraschino lays a nutty, cherry-pit perfume over the orange and citrus, lifting the drink somewhere between a Daiquiri and a Margarita.
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Shaken · Coupe · Up
add
Combine white rum, triple sec, lime juice, maraschino liqueur, and optional simple syrup in a shaker.
shake
Add ice and shake vigorously until well-chilled.
strain
Fine-strain into a chilled coupe glass.
garnish
Garnish with a lime wedge.
Who first shook the Beachcomber is disputed: credit is claimed both for Don the Beachcomber — Donn Beach, otherwise known as Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt — and for Trader Vic, and no single inventor is on record. The recipe in circulation is often traced to Patrick Gavin Duffy's Official Mixer's Manual of 1956, an early printed version, though Duffy is credited only with putting it into print rather than inventing it. Recipes today still agree on the essentials — white rum, triple sec, lime and maraschino — while differing on the exact proportions.