Back in the 80's I was at a wedding reception with an open bar. A good friend of mine drank 7 of them. Fortunately he had a designated driver. I will also add that he stands 6' 7" and weighed in around 275 lbs.

I don't remember ever having this drink. Sidenote: Grenadine is easy to make (if you use pomegranate juice rather than a whole pomegranate), and homemade is much tastier than store bought.

@peaceonearth8693

3 жыл бұрын

You don't remember, ha ha. Must have been a good one then!

@kluya42

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, she has called it out enough at this point someone really needs to get her some real grenadine. It doesn't even resemble the mass-market stuff.

Ciara drinking any alcohol: not a flinch. Ciara tasting the left over grenadine: eeck aack, contorted faces.

@jeffforbess6802

3 жыл бұрын

Nor muy picoso, nor durian.

@javasoccernut

3 жыл бұрын

I know I laughed because of that

@RichterPhallos

3 жыл бұрын

So, her species DOES have a weakness.

@kconrad5893

2 жыл бұрын

Part of me suspects that her aversion to sweet cocktail ingredients is a bit contrived. She probably wants to appear sophisticated, and in drinking culture, sweet, fruity and colorful cocktails seem to be thought of as basic and lame. She seems a bit pretentious.

most recipes call for light and dark rum and 151. The 151 is usually floated on top. When I bar tended at Trader Vic's in Los Angeles, (a rival of Don the Beachcomber's). We added a teaspoon of cinnamon syrup and a dash or two of Angostura Bitters. We would add the light rum to the mix and then blend/shake pour into glass. Then pour the dark rum on top, quick stir and then float 151 on top.

Zero bar experience but 100% more appealing than most bartenders. Always fun to watch!

Having 3 "1934 Zombies" at Don the Beachcomber in Seal Beach (now closed 😫) made for a very interesting day...

I remember Zombies, oh yeah, easy way to get to the "Why is it morning and how do I feel like this" part of the weekend

also if you do not like store bought grenadine, you can make your own, by making a syrup out of pomegranate juice and sugar. easy to make and way better than any store bought garbage.

I was going to suggest the zombie after watching the hurricane. Fruity rum drinks always seem to hide their alcohol. Glad you enjoyed it.

This girl needs an agent and a movie career, she's absolutely stunning and loaded with personality. Any takers?

@cajunrando2556

3 жыл бұрын

Get laid.

@dosdahrk4504

3 жыл бұрын

She a stunner alright..but definitely a class job..watch Try channel its a good laugh

@manuele.itriagom.728

3 жыл бұрын

You need to find a girlfriend

@peterfusco8461

3 жыл бұрын

@@manuele.itriagom.728 How's your boyfriend?

@manuele.itriagom.728

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterfusco8461 oh check it out, it's the homophobic simp. He's fine, he says hi!

Hey Ciara! You’ll probably get loads of these comments but this recipe is missing some of Don’s signature ingredients. The original would have contained a secret ingredient called Don’s mix(really just White Grapefruit juice mixed with Cinnamon Syrup), a few drops of Absinthe, and of course the 151 rum you talked about in the video. As you can imagine it is an extremely potent drink having both Absinthe AND 151 rum(use a Demerara 151). If you can research the Beachbum Berry Zombie.(He is the one accredited with figuring out the original formula)

@TheReeldeel15615

3 жыл бұрын

Head for the Winchester .....the 🧟‍♂️ are coming!!!

@charlesperez9976

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit you are a mixologistical GENIUS

@100nitrog2

3 жыл бұрын

It should be noted that the recipe has changed over time. The original was a work in progress, and the best version may be somewhere in between.

@wannabef

3 жыл бұрын

@@100nitrog2 My favorite is the Don's 1956 version with the addition of Maraschino liqueur.

A couple of famous cocktails made with Scotch - - the Rob Roy and the Rusty Nail.

@Geerladenlad

3 жыл бұрын

Going to have a rusty nail then you have to have a candy cane.

@Rx_orcist

3 жыл бұрын

Penicillin is my favorite scotch cocktail. You'd probably need to make your own ginger honey syrup though.

@SylviusTheMad

3 жыл бұрын

My Dad loved the Rusty Nail. He always poured one as an after-dinner drink for guests.

@Geerladenlad

3 жыл бұрын

@@SylviusTheMad I was making a Joyride reference.

@evanch100

3 жыл бұрын

And the blood and sand

"The Zombie's beautifully fruity flavor is deceptive and hides a serious amount of alcohol." Yup. The Zombie was the drink that gave me my first REALLY bad drunk/hungover experience. It was in September of 2010, I was 22 and in college, living away from home for the first time. My roommates and I were celebrating a friend's birthday (and I had just gotten my heart broken romantically that night), so I slammed back several Zombies not being told how potent they were. The next thing I remember, I was trying to stand up from lying on the couch, but I had wobbly "pony" legs, so my roommates had to help me to the bathroom. I spent the night puking my insides out and woke up the next morning with a throbbing head and feeling like I'd ridden a roller coaster. And I had to go to my first day of classes that day. I called my mom and was like, "I'm hung over. Help! What do I do?" "Go to class," she answered. "No, Mom, I mean, the room is still spinning and I'm scared. What do I do?" She then gave me some remedy advice--water and greasy foods--but I couldn't follow it because my stomach was still swirling. After a horrible day, I arrived back home and made myself a bowl of Campbell's chicken noodle soup and it was the best thing I'd ever eaten. It wasn't until February of last year, just before the pandemic, that I was able to try a Zombie again without cringing at the thought. It was at a Mexican restaurant, hanging out with friends (gods, remember those days?), and I saw Zombies were on the menu. I offered to split one with a friend of mine and finally broke the bad memories the drink had had for me. Its sweetness perfectly complimented the spicy food we ate and now I can say I'd happily enjoy Zombies again--sparingly, of course! Cheers!

The first time I ever had zombies, my favorite bartender kept topping the glass off with 151 proof rum. I drove home in 2nd gear because it was the only gear I could fine,

Drinking more than 2 of these definitely will turn you into a stumbling, mindless zombie.

@SgtSplatter782

3 жыл бұрын

hell I remember making that drink for a customer and they were stumbling by the halfway point. by the time he finished I made the call cut him off and his friends dragged his sloshed ass back home.

@Lukos0036

3 жыл бұрын

Or a retching crying bent over fool.

@Nemioke

3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in Finland: "Meh, that's like a teenager evening opener before drinking." :D

Yay zombies. Drunk from the legs up 😂😅🤣 I had three and fell off my barstool backwards 🤪😖

@CiaraODoherty

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@shazcon71

3 жыл бұрын

@@CiaraODoherty I genuinely felt fine from the waist up, but think I actually died for a moment from the waist down and I was dying for a wee 😂😅🤣

The Zombie is definitely a sneaky drink. With the fruit juice and the grenadine helping hide the power of the rum. I've had one where it's made in a tiki bowl for 3-4 people and they only serve you one for the table for the night.

Those things are lethal. Weird stories that you can't remember are a major result.

@22airgun

3 жыл бұрын

Sold!

@ddd228

3 жыл бұрын

@@22airgun She is an ANDROID!!!!!

as a rookie in the USN I ordered one or two of those in a Base Bar at Guantanamo Bay Cuba . They came with a cutsie pie skull shaped mugs that you got to keep. The only thing was you had to keep track of two glass mugs after getting drunk in the Rum capital of the world . not an easy task. I remember standing watch back on the ship and watching others return from a night out clutching the handles of two broken mugs. The things I remember from my drinking days. There were quite a few lost time and location episodes.

A long time ago, I was in Mainz at a club with some friends, and one guy stopped counting his zombies at eight, did not see him again until late afternoon the next day.

Whenever my wife and I went to a 'Polynesian' restaurant I always got a Zombie. Never more than 1 though. For the obvious reasons! I love this drink. Thanks for making one Ciara!

04:53 "don't open that closet, fibber mcgee!"

My god.. I found her channel! The favorite of the TRY channel and the queen of any drinking establishment from Ireland to the states (and probably the world!).

I'm sure that the guy who is the reason why the "2 Zombie maximum" had to be told the wild stories. Pretty sure he couldn't remember them... 😂

I had this drink to salute my grandmother from Long Lake NY who had it. I remember her saying that after she drank it, that she was crawling on the floor. Lol. When I took the challenge, I didn’t crawl on the floor but the next day I did crawl to the toilet like a zombie. Ironically, my grandmother is over 50 percent Irish heritage due to family names of Condren and Buryne, no one really knows when the first relative came off the boat from Ireland. Of course that didn’t help her alcohol resistant. Lol.

We typically add just a pinch of very finely ground chili powder or a dash of non-fermented piri piri sauce and call it a Spicy Zombie.

I blacked out on Zombies one night in Brooklyn in 2014. That was a fucking night apparently.

Another tropical rum based cocktail you might like to try is called the Scorpion Bowl. It's supposed to be drunk by two or more people served in a bowl with four extra long straws. 3 cups crushed ice 2 fluid ounces gin 1 fluid ounce dark rum 2 fluid ounces 151 proof rum 2 fluid ounces light rum 2 fluid ounces vodka 2 fluid ounces grenadine syrup ( I use less than half that) 8 fluid ounces fresh orange juice 10 fluid ounces pineapple juice 3 fluid ounces fresh lemon juice (Optional) 4 pineapple chunks 8 maraschino cherries

Good for you with the zombie. The tiki bar in Key West didn’t limit our zombies, but then again, you walk everywhere on that island.

Here is a drink known as a Wham-Bam that was local to the Dallas bar I used to bartend in. This bar, The Hungry Hunter, was owned by Mike Ditka then the defensive head coach for the Dallas Cowboys and later the head coach of the Chicago Bears. As many Cowboys came into the bar it was a massivly popular bar and this was a featured drink. It was served with a warning that it hit you twice thus the names Wham and Bam. Women loved it and it could be a deadly drink for them. I often limited them to only one as they usually had had a drink or two first and they needed to be able to walk out. Remember this is purely an alcohol drink without any mixers to dilute it. The ingredients are as follows: equal parts shaken over ice and served in a snifter Cognac (Courvoisier or other good cognac preferred) Vodka (any good brand) Orange Liqueur (Triple Sec preferred) Almond Liqueur (Amaretto Di Saronno) All are in 30 mL size shots the warm nuttiness of the cognac combines perfectly with the almond and orange liqueurs and the vodka keeps the punch up. It is somewhat sweet from the two liqueurs but the cognac and vodka balance it out. When younger I used to take a one gallon jug and pour in one entire bottle of each and then put the bottle into the freezer so there was always a very chilled drink available anytime. It never lasted long.

love the bangs!!!

I am glad to see Gosling dark rum It’s sooooo smooth

Will you try to make "The Last Word"? It is absolutely perfect!

Haven't had a zombie in decades. Aloha Inn served the best.

Zombies are my favourite cocktail. Got into them years ago and love them a lot. A very strong beverage for sure.

5:08 I had to pause the vid to laugh, that's exactly the sound and face I make with grenadine. It's very much like the cough syrup we used to get back in the 80's.

Yes, three rums! A silver, a dark (I would use Myer's), and float a bit of Bacardi 151 on top. Old school would use a syrup such as Orgeat or Falernum but in my bartender days would use Amaretto for that distinctive almond flavor. And alcohol. Just to nitpick, tiki got big before and especially after the War with Hawaiian and Polynesian influences. So this was on the West Coast. Don's buddy Victor Jules Bergeron claimed the Mai-Tai and started Trader Vic's in the Bay Area with Don being in Hollywood.

About 15 years ago I was mixing drinks at a party. I was mixing zombies using absinthe. I drank an entire pitcher myself. 45 minutes afterwards I was at the airport trying to steal an airplane. Haven't drank one since.

I was introduced to this cocktail in Jamaica. When they made it they made the cocktail the finished it by floating the overproof on top. This made it extremely aromatic!

@Barprints

3 жыл бұрын

That's how/where I first learned how to make it. Sadly never knew of the falernum component because its not common in Jamaica, but I definitely prefer that version better.

Great video and that blue is DEFINITELY your color! Just stunning!

I want you on my team in a Zombie APOCALYPSE

@CiaraODoherty

3 жыл бұрын

The greatest compliment! 😂🙌🏻

@david-fs6sj

3 жыл бұрын

(OR, create a DRINK by that very name!!)

@noesunyoutuber7680

3 жыл бұрын

@@david-fs6sj I imagine a Zombie Apocalypse is just a traditional Zombie but with a liberal dose of Rectified Spirit.

One of my favorite Tiki drinks! Cheers Ciara

Love your videos and the TRY channel in general! Next time try: 22.5 mil lime juice 7.5 mil grapefruit juice 1 bar spoon grenadine 15mil falernum ( I know it’s difficult to get even in the US) 45mil aged Jamaican rum 45mil aged Spanish rum 30 mil black overproof (hopefully you can find it!) And 1 dash of angostura and 1 dash of absinthe. This recipe is taken from the Smuggler’s Cove Tiki cocktail book. Martin and Rebecca Cate are big on preserving the legacy of Don and own one of the most prestigious Tiki bars in the country. Congratulations on your engagement. Wish you both the absolute best!

I’m not normally a fan of pineapple juice but it’s great in a Zombie. A similar tropical drink w pineapple juice - if you’re ever looking for something (like yourself) that’s fun & looks amazing but can lead to trouble - is Liquid Marijuana. It’s got spiced rum, coconut rum, melon liqueur, blue curaçao, sweet & sour, & pineapple juice. Not as strong as a Zombie, & a bit sweet, but it has a great electric green color.

Here is a thought, how about doing a blender party. That is two or three blenders assorted fruits 🍉🍎🍓🍍🫐🍌 with rums and lots of ice. Just make them up no recipes, just go for it. This has been some of my best parties 😋

In my local bar/club they do a Zombie but they add blue grenadine to give it that zombie green sort of look and I'm positive they use overproof white rum as one of the three. Definitely worth a revisist when you can get your hands on a bottle

I made mine with a splash of passion fruit juice as well, which made it just a hint sweeter and more tropical

I would like to suggest a drink called The Mastodon: “The Mastodon” 1 1/2oz aged rum 1 1/2oz bourbon 1/2oz maraschinol iqueur 1/2oz licor 43 3oz #pineapple 1oz passionfruit 1/2oz lime 2d peychaud’s bitters

Tiger Balm 2 oz (60 ml) Brugal Anejo Rum .75 (22 ml) lime juice .5 oz (15 ml) Bemerara Syrup .25 oz (7 ml) Fernet Branca Menta Mint leaf for garnish

wahoo! fun times!

Ciara. This was great. the zombie is an excellent cocktail. I can't wait to see you reaction when you get all of the ingredients.

On a cold night, Black Seal in a wine glass, warms everything. LOL

Great job Ciara.

I never had one. Thanks for sharing. I will try it someday.

Will you try making a caipirinha? They're so good and fairly easy to make.

Ciara , A drink I sometimes have which creeps up on you very quick is; A sloe comfortable screw which is as the name suggests basically a screwdriver the ingredients are : Sloe Gin,Southern comfort,Vodka and Orange juice :) 30 mls of each spirit and 120 mls Orange juice I turned it into a Mexican sloe comfortable screw by adding tequila you'll end up crossed eyed drinking a few of these :) you need to space them out with a beer between one :) Cheer's !

I've had a version of the zombie cocktail with rum and absinthe and it was delicious!

Lovely drink. Had more than two one night (and a couple of others) in an underground tikibar. I wish I remembered what happened and that my "friends" didn't.

The first (and only) time I had zombies was at a beach party in Guardalavaca, Cuba in 1995. I had a few, I mean a few more than two! The party was at a beach about 10 minutes walk from my hotel. On my way back, I tried to use a shortcut instead of the sidewalk, but finally woke up on a lounge chair at a nearby hotel, got up and finally found my way to my room. I was supposed to meet friends for supper at one of the restaurant, they came to pick me up, but I didn't even got up off the bed to talk to them. At one point, the cleaning lady came in the room to tidy up, but I just told her to come back the day after... Hangover you say???

Good idea to put in cheap ingredients first. I'm going to remember that tip. Thanks!

Thanks for the video! I suggest trying the Jungle bird 🦜 as your next tiki drink! I love it!

Being in fl. There were alot of springs brake bars on the gulf. They made alot of the teka drinks and rum drinks using a southern comfort vs. I remember in the late 80's southern comfort brand had bar books and cook books using sc in the mixes. Some drinks they just added sc in to the drink as a extra and some times replaced one of the original items with sc. The thing that i remember most you normally replaced 1 oz of the other drink with 2-4 oz of sc.

Greg at "How to Drink" has a video on making your own grenadine, which will probably get you away from the "cough syrup" flavor. "Behind the Bar" also reveals that 15 seconds is about all you need to shake for any drink.

Great video! I love all of yours...I got hooked on Irish People Try and have followed ever since. I have a zombie drink called the Zombie Brain Punch...but basically the same thing with a couple of exceptions. 1/2 oz each of white, black and gold rum, 2 oz of pineapple juice, 1 oz of raspberry puree and 1/2 oz of simple syrup. That's it easy peasy. Best wishes from the home of all the great Bourbons.....Kentucky!

Hey!! Love from the Detroit city! Nice video. Making the Irish proud. 👍😀😜

I recommend the prairie fire shot. Everclear and Tabasco.

Maith thú for trying on this one. I'm a former mixologist and after some research I did I was satisfied that this was the closest original recipe (less popular perhaps because there's no pineapple or orange). But it's terrific! Any good dark rums should do.

If you like hidden alcohol cocktails Try love potion no. 9 and the scorpion, both have 2 kinds of rum plus brandy disguised with other liquors and fruit juice.

always seems to taste different every place you get it but when they get it right their amazing

Great dress! And I think it would be just as good as a true polka-dot design rather than an irregular-dot dress. Wonderful.

I had one of these. Shortly after, I started seeing sounds. Great video as always Ciara. Love the bangs btw (frills) 🤣🤯. Cheers! 🥃🥂

What a gorgeous dress!

Here's a suggestion for you to try. It's a variation on a classic shot that's been made into a shot/cocktail. Up to the person drinking it I suppose. It is called the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. Like any other cocktail, there's a thousand different ways to make it. This is just the way our local spot did it. You're going to need a shaker, a high ball glass, some ice, a bourbon (Wild Turkey 101), a Tennessee whiskey (Jack Daniels, Gentleman Jack if you can get it), an Irish whiskey (Jameson of course), a scotch whiskey (Southern Comfort for us since scotch was not widely used in our hangout), a tequila (Patron silver), a rum (Bacardi 151), some simple syrup, and some pineapple juice. Put some ice in your shaker. Pour a 1/2 shot of your bourbon, Tenn whiskey, Irish whiskey, and Scotch whiskey in your shaker. Those are the four horsemen. Now pour in a 1/2 shot of your tequila and your rum. That's the apocolypse. Pour in two shots pineapple and a dash of simple syrup. Shake it all up and pour it in a high ball glass. You're ready to go! Some people call it a cocktail. Some call it a monster shot. Either way, it's a very strong drink! Now if you want to get real friskey, you can try what we lovingly called the Four Horsemen in Damnation! The only difference is that you substitute Everclear (191 grain alchohol) for the tequila. Enjoy! Oh....be sure to record it so you can go watch the video the next day to see if you enjoyed it or not!

My recipe called "Made in Heaven" 30ml Paraiso (lychee liqueur) , 30ml St Germain, 15ml Apricot liqueur, 15ml Triple Sec, 240ml Cream, Shake, serve in a martini glass with slice of orange, lychees on a toothpick garnish.

I know a little diferent one, it should be called Zombie Cristoph. You need to add orange juice and above all use Blue Curaçao instead of grenadine. You'll get a kind or rotten greenish color that should be zombie's blood. Anyway I tried this one and it's great. Greetings from Italy.

Grapefruit juice lime juice, 3 rums, (45ml of 2 dark or spiced and one light 30ml) grenadine and cinnamon syrup - Boston Version

My go to tiki drink is a scorpion bowl. Also definitely an over proof rum drink

Luxardo Cherries are the bomb!! Spoon that over ice cream

That's an awesome story ..! Try the "Suffering Bastard" It's a must try.

Just in time for the warmer months

You just have to make your own grenadine. It’s easy, honest. Also. Game changer. Cheers!

I agree with you about the Grenadine. A little bit goes a long way.

Ok I also forgot to mention you MUST USE CRUSHED ICE when making Tiki Cocktails. Use crushed ice in the shaker while preparing and always use extra to top off in Tiki mug or glass.

@samiam619

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the bartenders way of filling up your drink with water and not DRINK!

I generally make my grenadine in small batches from pomegranate juice, as i have a similar opinion of the bottled stuff.

Great episode. I haven’t tried a Zombie before but that might have to change-I’m so curious now despite the drink’s reputation. Also I love your outfit!

I do believe that the first time I have ever seen you make a face when tasting something was the grenadine on this video. And that's saying something because I've seen you taste a lot of wild things on the Try Channel. Love your videos, please keep them coming.

Many fond memories of Ciral's House Of Tiki on the South Side of Chicago. Ciral's zombie had seven shots of liquor 😮 and a strict 'one per customer' limit.

This is my go to drink for someone who orders something fruity and strong

@MTMyTails

2 жыл бұрын

Also I add passion fruit juice or syrup as well

yummmm!

this drink and long islands are my drink of choice I always order them 2 at a time as they go down so smooth and fast. I love sweet drinks and totally despise bitter drinks

Looking at the recipe in my Don the Beachcomber Tropical Drink book. The recipe is even crazier than what you made. It has 5 different rums, totaling 5 and1/4 ounces of rum. Grapefruit juice, instead of pineapple juice. Falernum (which is sometimes a syrup, sometimes a liqueur,) maraschino liqueur, and a dash of absinthe.

Grenadine should taste like pomegranate. A lot of "grenadine" is just artificial flavor which is why it taste like cough syrup. Try getting a high quality Grenadine or making your own. Steve the bartender has a quick grenadine recipe. There are some sights that talk about the best Grenadines. I use Liber&Co, but don't know if it's available over there.

Never tried the Zombie, but you make it sound wonderful.

You may not like (Too Sweet) but a pineapple upside down cake. 1.5 shot of vodka, Pineapple juice, a tablespoon of grenadine. (Drink in one shot.) Grenadine pour on side to get to bottom. (Regular coffee or tee cup size glass)

The times I had a Zombie it came with an orange round laid on top and on that a sugar cube that had some 151 on it and the cube was on fire 🔥

Ms. Ciara, you need a tiny umbrella for that new mug. Lol

Oooh oooh NAVY GROG!!

I always love your videos, I even loved this video, this may have been a very good cocktail, but I must say this was definitely not a classic Zombie, not even remotely. Here is my spec I think you should try (it is very similar to the original spec but less boozy): - 40 ml Light rum - 40 ml aged Jamaican rum - 15 ml over-proof rum (I love using Wray and Nephew) - 15 ml Falernum - 10 ml Cinnamon syrup - 20 ml white grapefruit juice - 20 ml lime juice - 6 ml home made grenadine - 2 dashes Angustura bitters - 2 dashes Absinthe I hope you make this one day and will enjoy very much. Cheers 🍹

A good summery one here in America is a bombpop. It is a popsicle that we turned into a drink. Lots of flavor and colorful. But you will need a tall glass. Cheers.

Yay!