Chief Bamboo Bamboo

Name: Chief Bamboo Bamboo
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Passion Fruit Syrup; 15 ml Jamaican Rum; 1 spg Mint; 60 ml Orange Juice; 30 ml Lemon Juice; 45 ml Dry Vermouth; 45 ml Dry Sherry; 2 dash Absinthe Bitters

A tiki drink built on dry vermouth and dry sherry rather than a rum base, made fruity with orange juice, lemon juice and passion fruit syrup. A little Jamaican rum and absinthe bitters add depth, with mint on top.

Similar names: Big Chief, Chief Lapu Lapu, Commander in Chief

Frederic Yarm of Somerville, MA, created the Chief Bamboo Bamboo in 2025 after seeing the Bamboo cocktail menu at Backbar in Somerville, which featured the Improved Bamboo, Bamboo Crusta and Bamboo Flip. A Zombie variation was considered first but dropped for fear of overshadowing the bamboo theme, so the drink instead riffs on the Chief Lapu Lapu. For its base it uses Death & Co.'s Amontillado-based recipe rather than Fino Sherry.

Method

Shaken

Glass

tiki

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Citrus

Sour

Sweet

Tropical