Beginner Tiki Drinks

Planter’s Punch

Ingredients

  • 1oz fresh lime juice
  • 3/4oz Demerara syrup
  • 1/4oz St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram
  • 3oz blended aged rum (Jamacia)
  • 2 dashes Agnostura bitters

Preparation

  1. Add ingredients to mixing tin
  2. Add 12oz crushed ice
  3. Blend
  4. Pour with gated finish into glass
  5. OPTIONAL: garnish with mint sprig

Smuggler’s Cove p258

Painkiller

Official Cocktail of the British Virgin Islands

Ingredients

  • 2oz (or 3oz or 4oz) blended aged rum (Pusser’s is the traditional choice)
  • 4oz pineapple juice
  • 1oz orange juice
  • 1oz cream of coconut
  • Whole nutmeg

Preparation

  1. Add liquid ingredients to a cocktail shaker
  2. Shake vigorously
  3. Pour into a big glass or goblet filled with ice
  4. Grate fresh nutmeg on top

The Infamous Pusser’s Painkiller™

Hurricane

Ingredients

  • 2oz fresh lemon juice
  • 2oz passion fruit syrup
  • 4oz black blended rum

Preparation

  1. Add ingredients to mixing tin
  2. Add 12oz crushed ice
  3. Flash blend
  4. Pour with gated finish into glass

Smuggler’s Cove p68

Demerara Dry Float

Ingredients

  • 3/4oz black blended overproof rum ⑥
  • 2oz fresh lime juice
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • 11/2oz passion fruit syrup
  • 1/4oz demerara syrup
  • 1/4oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
  • 11/2oz blended aged rum ③

Preparation

  1. Pour black blended rum into a shot glass (serve on the side)
  2. Add ingredients, 12oz crushed ice, and a few ice cubes to a mixing tin
  3. Flash blend
  4. Pour with gated finish into glass

Smuggler’s Cove p44

Mai Tai

Ingredients

  • 3/4oz fresh lime juice
  • 1/4oz rich Mai Tai simple syrup
  • 1/4oz orgeat
  • 1/2oz Pierre Ferrand dry curaçao
  • 2oz blended aged rum ③

Preparation

  1. Add ingredients, 12oz crushed ice, and a few ice cubes to a cocktail shaker
  2. Shake until frosty
  3. Pour entire contents into glass
  4. OPTIONAL: garnish with mint sprig and half a squeezed lime

Rum Recommendations

These few ingredients, in small amounts, go well with nearly any rum. The drink was originally designed for a particular variety of robust, long-aged, pot-still rum from Jamaica in 1944. Since that spirit is no longer available, we can experiment to see what works best.

Denizen Merchant’s Reserve, a blend of pot still rums from Jamaica and Martinique, is a faithful recreation of the kind of rum used in the original Mai Tai. In lieu of that, try 1.5oz blended long aged rum and .5oz unaged or lightly aged pot still rum.

Smuggler’s Cove p261