Beachcomber
A Tiki daiquiri variant: white rum, triple sec, and fresh lime sharpened with maraschino and a salt rim for a balanced tropical sip.
Ingredients
- 2 oz white rum
- 0.75 oz triple sec
- 0.75 oz fresh lime juice
- 0.5 oz maraschino liqueur
- Salt for rimming
- Lime wheel, to garnish
Instructions
- 1Rim a chilled coupe with salt.
- 2Add rum, triple sec, lime juice, and maraschino to a shaker with ice.
- 3Shake until well chilled and double strain into the prepared coupe. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Origin & Story
Donn Beach created the Beachcomber at his Hollywood restaurant Don the Beachcomber in the 1930s, one of the templates he used to build the Tiki cocktail movement. It sits at the intersection of the classic Daiquiri and the Margarita — using both triple sec and maraschino for sweetness, and optionally salting the rim — making it a pivotal link between the rum and tequila traditions of mid-century American cocktailing.
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