I basically made this cocktail by mistake, when trying to decide between making a Donga Punch or an Aloha Cocktail. The former is a cocktail from Dick Santiago’s personal notebook used whilst working at Don The Beachcombers in Hollywood and the latter is by Hank Riddle, 1970, who worked as a bartender at Don The Beachcomber in Palm Springs. Basically, I unintentionally mixed the two recipes and added fresh pink grapefruit juice to the Aloha cocktail. In a second attempt, I replaced the light white rum with the Martinique rhum agricole blanc used in the Donga Punch recipe. So try it and see if you like it. I’ve called it the Lalau, which means error or mistake in Hawaiian, using the Negroni Sbagliato (messed up or mistaken Negroni) as example.
| ½ oz | 15 ml | Clément Rhum Agricole Blanc, 50% ABV |
| ½ oz | 15 ml | El Dorado Superior Overproof Demerara Rum 151, 75.5% ABV |
| ½ oz | 15 ml | Fresh lime juice |
| ½ oz | 15 ml | Fresh grapefruit juice |
| ½ oz | 15 ml | Fresh orange juice |
| ½ oz | 15 ml | Fresh pomegranate juice |
| ½ oz | 15 ml | Sugar syrup |
| ¼ oz | 7.5 ml | Cherry Heering Liqueur, 24% ABV |
| 2 dashes | Angostura Bitters |
Shake the ingredients with ice cubes and then strain into a flute champagne glass.