Painkiller

A lush British Virgin Islands tiki classic: aged rum lengthened with pineapple and orange juice, rounded by cream of coconut and finished with a heavy snow of fresh-grated nutmeg. It was born in the 1970s at the Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke — credited variously to Daphne Henderson or the Myricks — before Pusser's Rum's Charles Tobias famously reverse-engineered its "4-1-1-1" ratio and trademarked the name in 1989. Beachy and deceptively strong, it drinks like sunscreen in a glass.

TikiTropicalClassic

Ingredients

  • 2 ozAged Rum
  • 4 ozPineapple Juice
  • 1 ozCream of Coconut
  • 1 ozOrange Juice

Garnish: Grated Nutmeg

Preparation

Shaken · Highball · Cubed

  1. 1.

    add

    Add the aged rum, pineapple juice, cream of coconut, and orange juice to a shaker with ice.

  2. 2.

    shake

    Shake well until thoroughly chilled and the cream of coconut is fully integrated.

  3. 3.

    strain

    Strain into an ice-filled highball or tropical glass.

  4. 4.

    garnish

    Top with a generous dusting of freshly grated nutmeg; an orange slice or pineapple wedge is optional.

Flavor Profile

fruity
60%
sweet
48%
dilution
36%
body
30%
viscosity
29%
citrus
21%