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Piña Colada

Yes, I like Piña Coladas!

Ingredients

60mlLight Rum
30mlCream of Coconut
30mlCoconut Milk
120-180mlPineapple Juice

Make it well

Shake

Directions

1. This one is great as a slushy-style drink, so have a hand-blender ready 2. Add all your ingredients into a shaking tin with a couple scoops of crushed ice 3. Grab a hand blender (or put the whole thing into a liquidiser) and blend up until slushy. 4. Pour into your cocktail glass, add a straw 5. Garnish with pineapple fronds, pineapple wedges and a cherry Tip time, grab a great dark rum and float it on top, just a dash!

Taste

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!

Origin

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!

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