Jungle Bird Recipe

Campari, pineapple, and blackstrap rum come together in this offbeat, but delicious tiki drink.

By
Maggie Hoffman
Maggie Hoffman is a contributing writer at Serious Eats.
Maggie Hoffman
Maggie Hoffman is a longtime food and drink expert whose recipes and cocktail-making tips can be found on her newsletters What to Drink and The Dinner Plan. She is the author of  The One-Bottle Cocktail and Batch Cocktails, both published by Ten Speed Press.
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Updated April 10, 2019
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Alice Gao

You don't hear often of brilliant cocktails created in the late 1970s, but The Jungle Bird was one. Beachbum Berry's Intoxica traces it to the Aviary Bar in the Kuala Lumpur Hilton, circa 1978, and it's one of only a handful of tiki cocktails that calls for Campari as an ingredient. "This is a crazy drink," said Theo Lieberman of The Lantern's Keep in NYC as he mixed one up for us. "It tastes like you're eating pancakes covered in maple syrup and drinking a cup of coffee."

The coffee note is courtesy of blackstrap rum, which has a deep molasses-and-chocolate flavor that adds a bass note to the otherwise bright-toned drink. Fresh pineapple juice is essential to the deliciousness of this recipe. Use a juice extractor or hand juicer, or muddle and strain some ripe chunks of fresh pineapple.

Recipe Details

Jungle Bird Recipe

Active 10 mins
Total 10 mins
Serves 1 serving

Ingredients

  • 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice

  • 1/2 ounce simple syrup

  • 3/4 ounce Campari

  • 1 1/2 ounces freshly squeezed pineapple juice

  • 1 1/2 ounces Cruzan blackstrap rum

Directions

  1. Add lime, simple syrup, Campari, pineapple juice, and rum to a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice and shake until cocktail is quite cold, about 30 seconds. Serve in a Moscow Mule mug or old fashioned glass over a large ice cube.

Special Equipment

Cocktail shaker, cocktail strainer

Nutrition Facts (per serving)
307Calories
0gFat
20gCarbs
0gProtein
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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 1
Amount per serving
Calories307
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g0%
Saturated Fat 0g0%
Cholesterol 0mg0%
Sodium 2mg0%
Total Carbohydrate 20g7%
Dietary Fiber 0g1%
Total Sugars 17g
Protein 0g
Vitamin C 25mg126%
Calcium 8mg1%
Iron 0mg1%
Potassium 81mg2%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

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