Jungle Bird

Cocktail· Dark

Jungle Bird

The Jungle Bird is a shaken tiki cocktail of dark Jamaican rum, Campari, fresh pineapple juice, fresh lime juice, and rich demerara syrup, served over ice in a rocks glass with a pineapple frond. It was created at the Aviary Bar of the Kuala Lumpur Hilton in 1973 and rediscovered through Beachbum Berry's 2002 book Intoxica! The Campari is the central trick: bitter aperitivo set against tropical fruit reads as both at once.

5 min EasyRocksShaken

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz dark Jamaican rum
  • 0.75 oz Campari
  • 1.5 oz fresh pineapple juice
  • 0.5 oz fresh lime juice
  • 0.5 oz rich demerara syrup
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Method

  1. Combine rum, Campari, pineapple juice, lime juice, and rich demerara in a shaker.
  2. Add ice and shake hard for 12 seconds.
  3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
  4. Garnish with a pineapple frond and a pineapple wedge.

Garnish

Pineapple frond and wedge

Pro tip

Use fresh pineapple juice, not canned; the canned version is too sweet and missing the fresh fruit's acidity, throwing the balance off.

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