Piña Colada
Yes, I like Piña Coladas!
- Method
- Shaken
- Style
- Tiki
- Glass
- Tiki glass
- Time
- 5 min
Ingredients
- 60mlLight Rum
No Light Rum? Gold Rum — a little oak and caramel where light rum is clean — fine anywhere the drink isn't meant to be crisp
- 30mlCream of Coconut
- 30mlCoconut Milk
- 120-180mlPineapple Juice
No Pineapple Juice? Acid Adjusted Pineapple Juice — leave out any other citrus in the drink. It lands more like a sour, so you may need to balance the sweetness, but you could be onto a winner
- Garnish
- Pineapple wedge, fronds and a cherry
Make it well
Shaken, properly.
This one is great as a slushy-style drink, so have a hand-blender ready
Add all your ingredients into a with a couple scoops of
Grab a hand blender (or put the whole thing into a liquidiser) and up until slushy.
Pour into your cocktail glass, add a straw
Garnish with pineapple fronds, pineapple and a cherry
Tip time, grab a great dark rum and it on top, just a !
On the palate
On the nose it's all pineapple. On tasting, it's a smoothy! An incredibly boozy and fresh smoothy! It's all pineapple and creamy sweet coconut. It's a dangerous one, the rum is disguised. You don't realise how much rum is in here!
Where it came from
An incredible tropical cocktail here, straight from your last holiday! The Piña Colada was first mixed in Puerto Rico - in fact, we hear it's their national drink now. Who actually mixed it first is a proper San Juan turf war. Ramón "Monchito" Marrero claimed it at the Caribe Hilton's Beachcomber Bar, 1952 by his telling, 1954 by the hotel's. Ricardo García, working the same bar, said it was his, born out of a coconut shortage that forced him to improvise. Then Ramón Portas Mingot claimed it for Barrachina in Old San Juan in 1963. The tidiest explanation going is that it was invented at the Caribe and christened at Barrachina a decade later, which would fit the drink not turning up in cocktail books until the late sixties. We believe it started life as a tropical alcohol-free drink, until somebody said "you should put some rum in that." Thank you, somebody!
Keep pouring
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The bartender’s note
One drink, one story, one bottle worth buying.
Thursday evening, so you have time to shop. No more than that.