Homemade Don’s Mix

Name: Homemade Don’s Mix
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Tiki
Ingredients: 2 oz fresh grapefruit juice; 1 oz [cinnamon syrup](/recipes/homemade-cinnamon-syrup)

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Donn Beach’s prep-batched grapefruit-and-cinnamon syrup—two parts fresh grapefruit juice to one part cinnamon syrup. The defining ingredient of the canonical 1934 Zombie. Make it fresh the day you’ll use it.

Homemade Don’s Mix in a glass measuring cup—fresh grapefruit juice combined with cinnamon syrup

Servings

Ingredients

2 oz fresh grapefruit juice
1 oz cinnamon syrup

Directions

Combine the grapefruit juice and cinnamon syrup in a small jar or pitcher.

Stir to integrate. Use immediately.

For the cinnamon syrup itself, see Homemade Cinnamon Syrup—the full method, the spice notes, and what else it’s good for.

See Don’s Mix for the full story—why Donn Beach numbered his mixes, how Jeff Berry decoded the formula, and which canonical drinks require it.