Bacardi Cocktail
45 ml White rum, 20 ml Lime juice, 10 ml Grenadine, 1 Lime wedge
Blue Hawaiian
A blue lagoon of a drink, with coconut and rum underneath.
Tiki
Easy
4 min
Photo: Cocktails in Tiki Glasses by RightCowLeftCoast · CC BY-SA 4.0 · All credits
Ingredients
Measures below are multiplied for 12 drinks. Unmeasurable amounts such as “a splash” are left as written.
- 540 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 540 ml line. White rum
- 240 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 240 ml line. Blue curaçao
- 720 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 720 ml line. Pineapple juice
- 240 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 240 ml line. Coconut cream
- 180 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 180 ml line. Lemon juice
- 12 wedges Pineapple (optional)
- 12 cherries Maraschino cherry (optional)
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What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Shake the rum, curaçao, pineapple, coconut and lemon with ice.
- Pour over crushed ice and garnish with pineapple and a cherry.
Method
Batch (12 drinks)Batch (12 drinks) - about 1.92 l of measured ingredients, before ice and dilution.
Timings and per-glass steps below are written for one drink and are not scaled. A full jug takes longer to chill, so stir or shake until it is properly cold rather than by the clock, and pour over fresh ice one glass at a time.
- Shake the rum, blue curaçao, pineapple juice, coconut cream and lemon juice with ice.
- Fill a hurricane glass with crushed ice and strain the drink over it.
- Add a little more crushed ice on top so it sits proud of the rim.
- Wedge a slice of pineapple on the edge and drop a cherry in.
Serve it
Volumes in this story are multiplied for the size above, along with the ingredients. Years, ratios and the capacities of glasses and jugs are left as written.
Blue Hawaiian
Blue Hawaii is the older, paler drink - vodka, light rum and a sour mix, made famous by a singer rather than a bar. The Blue Hawaiian is its richer relation: same blue, but built on coconut cream, so it tastes of the holiday rather than of the colouring. Tiki drinks are generous by nature, and this is one of the friendliest of them.
Getting it right
Half the pleasure is the look, so the ice matters: crushed, or at least small and plentiful, because a hurricane glass full of cubes is an unsteady thing. The coconut cream wants a good shake of the tin before it goes in - the solids settle - and the lemon juice is what stops a sweet drink from becoming a sugary one. If you have a blender, blend the lot with a cup of crushed ice and pour it as a smoothie, which is how it is served on the islands.
Tasting notes
Pineapple first, then coconut, then a bright blue-orange note from the curaçao, with rum warming it all up at the back. Sweet, cold and unashamedly on holiday.
A pineapple wedge is the traditional garnish, and a paper umbrella has never hurt anybody.
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60 ml White rum, 25 ml Lime juice, 15 ml Simple syrup, 1 Lime wedge