Cocktail. Served at Daun Pisang (#4) and Mekong (#5 and #6).

Jungle Bird

The Jungle Bird is the Malaysian cocktail: blackstrap rum, Campari, and pineapple.

I swap the usual simple syrup for a thin gula melaka syrup, 1 part sugar to 1 part water by weight. A thicker syrup will over-sweeten it.

Makes
Two 64 oz bottles, about 22 drinks
Do ahead
Batch everything but the lime ahead. Juice the limes the afternoon you drink it, not the night before.

Ingredients

Scale

Per 64 oz bottle

  • 16 ozblackstrap rum
  • 8 ozCampari
  • 16 ozpineapple juice
  • 5.5 ozfresh lime juice
  • 5.5 ozgula melaka syrup, thin 1:1
  • 13 ozcold water

Gula melaka syrup, for two bottles

  • 200 ggula melaka
  • 200 gwater

Method

  1. Make the syrup by dissolving 200 g gula melaka in 200 g water. That covers the 11 oz two bottles take.
  2. Add the rum, Campari, pineapple juice, syrup, and cold water to the bottle. All the water goes in now.
  3. On the day, juice the limes in the afternoon and add the lime juice.
  4. The bottle will be full. Cap it and invert until mixed. Do not shake.

Notes

  • Shopping for two bottles: about 1 L blackstrap rum, about 500 ml Campari (375 ml is not enough), and about 1 L pineapple juice.