When it came time to develop a menu of spooky cocktails for the Bamboo Club's month-long Halloween pop-up, Tremble Club's beverage director and longtime horror fan Dustin Rodriguez knew exactly what to do. The Tiki Bar in Long Beach – one of them best in Southern California – draws on classic cocktails with a few spooky touches, some with bony plastic skeletal arms or mini pumpkins peeking out from the rims of glasses, others with bat toothpicks or gumdrop eyeballs.
One of Rodriguez's most popular creations is “The Fall of Romulus,” an homage to the latest “Alien” film as well as tiki legend Donn Beach's peach-mint icon, The Missionary's Downfall.
“The Missionary's Downfall is a really fresh, bright cocktail – it's classic tiki,” Rodriguez said. “Usually, though, they're low-alcohol tiki, which is a little strange since most of them are pretty juicy. Here at the Bamboo Club I can’t drink these low alcohol drinks, so I spiced it up a bit.”
He adds additional rum to the mix of fresh mint, peach liqueur and pineapple and finishes the drink with a bloody float made from fresh raspberries, “which keeps it really nice and tart without making it overly sweet,” Rodriguez said. While the Fall of Romulus is jazzed up for the season with red raspberry “blood” and its garnishes, it's bright and fruity – making it a perfect year-round cocktail, even without the Halloween trappings.
This is also a recipe that requires minimal equipment beyond the basic cocktail necessities: you can use a measuring cup to measure out the liquids and honey, a metal cocktail shaker to prepare both the honey syrup and the drink, and a Any blender to prepare the raspberry syrup, be it a submersible, countertop or food processor.
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