{"id":3767,"date":"2026-03-02T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:36:36","slug":"pearl-diver-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/pearl-diver-cocktail\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Diver Cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Pearl Diver Cocktail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tiki drinks include a bevy of ingredients that are rarely found outside the Tiki-tropical canon, including orgeat, falernum and gardenia mix<\/a>. Jeff \u201cBeachbum\u201d Berry is credited with reviving the latter, as well as a historically accurate version of the mix\u2018s raison d\u2019etre, the Pearl Diver cocktail, back in 2006. At his bar Latitude 29 in New Orleans, he continues to showcase gardenia mix in the Pontchartrain Pearl Diver, which also includes Jamaican rum, passion fruit and lime. But this is the classic Pearl Diver, combining two types of rum\u2014an aged column-still rum and rich demerara rum\u2014along with gardenia mix, fresh lime and orange juices, and aromatic bitters. Gardenia mix<\/a>, or more accurately Don\u2019s Gardenia Mix<\/a>, combines honey, butter, cinnamon syrup, allspice and vanilla, whipped together with a spatula or electric mixer. It\u2019s one of the many flavor-bomb concoctions imagined by the Tiki legend Donn Beach, proprietor of famed bar Don the Beachcomber.<\/span><\/p>\n

Servings: 1<\/span><\/p>\n

INGREDIENTS<\/span><\/p>\n

1 1\/2 ounces aged column-still rum<\/span>
\n1\/2 ounce demerara rum<\/span>
\n1\/2 ounce Don\u2019s Gardenia Mix<\/span>
\n1\/2 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed<\/span>
\n1\/2 ounce orange juice, freshly squeezed<\/span>
\n1 dash Angostura bitters<\/span>
\nGarnish: edible orchid<\/span>
\nGarnish: pineapple leaf<\/span><\/p>\n

STEPS<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Add the column-still rum, demerara rum, Don\u2019s Gardenia Mix, lime juice, orange juice, and bitters into a blender with 1\/2 cup pebble ice and blend on high for 20 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Fine-strain into a Pearl Diver glass (or Tiki mug) and top with more pebble ice.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) Garnish with an edible orchid and a pineapple leaf.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) Serve with a straw.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tiki drinks include a bevy of ingredients that are rarely found outside the Tiki-tropical canon, including orgeat, falernum and gardenia mix. Jeff \u201cBeachbum\u201d Berry is credited with reviving the latter, as well as a historically accurate version of the mix\u2018s raison d\u2019etre, the Pearl Diver cocktail, back in 2006. At his bar Latitude 29 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drinks","tag-drinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}