Doctor Funk
ClassicDark rum, lime, and grenadine with an absinthe lift, lengthened with soda.
Tart and refreshing with a deep rum base. Grenadine rounds the lime without making it sweet, soda lengthens and lightens it, and absinthe leaves a cool, herbal finish. An easy, long tiki drink that drinks like a tropical cooler with backbone.
Ingredients
- 2 oz Dark Rum
- 0.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice
- 0.5 oz Grenadine
- 0.25 oz Absinthe
- 1 oz Soda Water
- Lime wheel · optional garnish
Method
- 1
Shake the rum, lime, grenadine, and absinthe with ice until chilled.
- 2
Strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice.
- 3
Top with soda water and stir once to combine.
- 4
Garnish with a lime wheel.
The Story
Doctor Funk is one of the oldest drinks in the tiki canon, poured by Don the Beachcomber in the 1930s and named for Dr. Bernard Funk — a physician who tended Robert Louis Stevenson during the writer's final years in Samoa. It predates the baroque, many-rum tiki drinks that followed: a simple, refreshing highball built on dark rum, tart lime, and the faint licorice snap of absinthe. Simple enough to have spawned countless variations, all still recognizably the Doctor.