Shark’s Tooth
One of Donn Beach’s lesser-known canonical drinks, lost to most modern bar programs but documented by Jeff Berry. Dark Jamaican rum, dual citrus, sloe gin, passion fruit, grenadine, and the unmistakable dash of Peychaud’s that signs almost every Donn build.
The History
A Donn Beach original from his mid-1930s Hollywood Beachcomber period—reconstructed by Jeff Berry in Sippin’ Safari (2007) from a surviving back-of-the-bar recipe card. Never crossed over into Trader Vic’s catalog or the wider Polynesian Pop circuit the way the Zombie and the Test Pilot did, which is why it sits absent from most modern menus despite being a documented Donn build. Berry’s reconstruction is what makes it makeable today.
Ingredients
- 2 oz dark Jamaican rum (Smith & Cross or Hamilton)
- 0.75 oz fresh lime juice
- 0.5 oz fresh lemon juice
- 0.5 oz sloe gin (Plymouth)
- 0.25 oz passion fruit syrup
- 0.25 oz grenadine (pomegranate-based)
- 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
- Lime wheel (garnish)
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with cracked ice.
Shake hard until well-chilled.
Strain over fresh crushed ice in a double old-fashioned glass.
Garnish with a lime wheel.