Coconut Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe
Coconut rum with pineapple and lime — the whole Caribbean punch formula in three ingredients.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Hurricane glass
- ABV: 14%
- Difficulty: Easy
- Prep time: ~3 min
Ingredients
- Coconut rum50 ml (1.7 oz)
- Pineapple juice90 ml (3 oz)
- Fresh lime juice25 ml (0.8 oz)
- Grenadine10 ml (0.3 oz)
How to Make It
- Shake all ingredients except the grenadine with ice.
- Strain into a hurricane glass over crushed ice.
- Drizzle the grenadine down the inside so it sinks.
- Garnish with pineapple and grate nutmeg on top.
Garnish
Pineapple wedge and nutmeg
What it tastes like
Fruit notes come forward, there is pineapple and passion fruit in it and the texture is creamy.
The technique
Shaking. Anything with juice, syrup, egg white or cream gets shaken: the shaker chills the drink and adds roughly 20% water, and that water is what takes the edge off. Twelve to fifteen seconds, until the tin frosts over. Under-shaking leaves the drink harsh because it never got enough dilution.
Glass and ice
The curved, tall hurricane glass. Tiki and tropical drinks often run past 200 ml, and this is the shape that holds that volume along with the ice.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Pineapple juice
- Pineapple juice. It foams on its own when shaken — that creamy head on a tiki drink comes from the pineapple, not from egg white.
- Fresh lime juice
- Freshly squeezed lime. Bottled lime tastes cooked and flat; one lime gives about 30 ml. If you have none, half lemon and half grapefruit juice comes closest.
- Grenadine
- Pomegranate syrup. Most supermarket bottles are dyed corn syrup with no pomegranate in them; reducing pomegranate juice with an equal weight of sugar takes ten minutes and changes the drink completely.
The Story
The Barbadian rhyme runs one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak — every island punch is a variation on that ratio.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Coconut Rum Punch mixed?
- It is shaken and served in a hurricane glass.
- How strong is a Coconut Rum Punch?
- Roughly 14% ABV as served — right around a glass of wine — an aperitif or an early-evening drink.
- Can a Coconut Rum Punch be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Coconut Rum Punch hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
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