February 2nd,
2010

Posted by Doug
under Recipes, Rum, Tiki Month 2010

Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch

Well now!
Isn’t it about time you actually do a drink post for Tiki Month? My lady is thirsty!

Quite right, my good sir!
Let’s start off Tiki month with a 1950s classic from Don the Beachcomber.

COLONEL BEACH’S PLANTATION PUNCH

  • 1 part fresh lime juice
  • 2 parts fresh pineapple juice
  • 1/2 part falernum
  • 2 parts dark rum
  • 1 part gold rum
  • 1/2 part Mount Gay Eclipse
  • 1 dash Angostura Bitters
  • 6 drops absinthe

Shake everything with ice, then strain into a tall glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a sprig of mint an/or a wedge of pineapple.
The recipe also calls for two parts ginger beer, added after shaking. You can try that if you like, but I forgot it with the first of these I made, and I think it is better without.

Don served this at his Colonel’s Plantation Beefsteak and Coffee House, in Hawaii. I think it is a pretty nifty Tiki punch, and apparently Don did too, since he named it after himself, in his World War Two incarnation.
I first found this one on Tiki+, and you can also read more about it in Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log.

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2 Responses to “Colonel Beach’s Plantation Punch”

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    jgodsey Says:

    i have GOT to buy me some falernum…these drinks look too good to pass up.

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    MxMo XLVIII: Pain in the Ass Drinks! | A Mountain Of Crushed Ice Says:

    [...] most people already know, the worst drinks to make are the TIKI cocktails – not all – but many, say 6 out of 10, something like that. Its not uncommon with 8-13 ingredients [...]

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