Pearl Diver | How to Drink
This is the most complicated cocktail I've ever made- and until 2006 it was nearly completely lost.
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The Pearl Diver is a classic tiki drink created by Donn "The Beachcomber" in the 40's or 50's. In true Donn Beach fashion it requires the cryptic secret ingredient "Gardenia Mix", a proprietary blend of spices and syrups that only The Beachcomber himself knew; few of his bartenders were let in on the secret formula.
Flash forward to 2006 and Jeff "BeachBum" Berry releases the seminal "Sippin' Safari" and in it dishes the secret ingredients on this secret sauce. The result is a complex, indulgent, decadent, delight of a cocktail that will be like nothing you've ever drank before. This drink is off the charts incredible.
The drink returned to notoriety to some degree thanks to it's famous appearance in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchanged. Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, order's a "Polynesian Pearl Diver" in a parlor in the 1850's. Now, this is a total anachronism, there was no such drink being served anywhere in the 1850's. However... this being the golden age of cocktails when drinks like Moral Suasions and Sherry Cobblers and Flips and Noggs and Gin Fizz's positively overflowed with gorgeous garnish's and ingredients, it's not unfair to say that the drinks were somewhat Tiki-Like. And if you're trying to get audience's to relate to that, the excess of it, the preferences of the character, the flippant and indulgent nature of the drink, then why not have him order a garish looking tiki drink that the audience might have some touchstone connection to? I think it's brilliant, and intentional.
The recipe for the Gardenia Mix is in the video and the book,
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Pearl Diver
.75 oz. or 22 ml. Lime JUice
1 oz. -or-30 ml. orange juice
.75 oz. or 22 ml. gardenia mix
.75 oz. or 22 ml. demerara rum
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. puerto rican rum
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Jamaican rum
Two bar spoons of Falernum
Shake & open pour
garnish with palm fronds and orchids
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