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Cocktails at Home: Tropical Drinks

Tropical Drinks recipes

We all yearn for that escape; the feeling of the white sand beneath our toes. We relish days of sun-drenched bliss, where the most pressing question in our heads is whether to gather seashells or crack open a coconut.

When you can’t get away to the beach but want that special feeling, nothing works better than a cool tropical drink. Over the years, the magical draw of the islands has introduced us to some of the most appealing and exotic combinations, laced with native fruits from around the world. These sun-kissed concoctions can help you make those palm-fringed fantasies a reality, without ever leaving your own backyard, and they’re guaranteed to make any land-locked summer soiree the next best thing to a balmy island existence.



Recipes

Tequila Sunset
  • 1 oz 1800® Tequila
  • orange juice
  • 1/2 oz blackberry brandy
  • 1 cherry

Pour tequila into a collins glass filled with ice cubes. Fill with orange juice and stir well. Top with blackberry brandy and stir lightly. Add the cherry on top and serve.

Hawaiian Punch
  • 1/2 oz rum
  • 1/2 oz vodka
  • 1/2 oz amaretto almond liqueur
  • 1/2 oz creme de bananes
  • 2 oz orange juice
  • 2 oz pineapple juice
  • 1-1/2 oz grenadine syrup

Pour all liquids in glass over ice, pouring in the grenadine last. Stir and serve.

Tropical Dream
  • 1 oz Malibu® mango rum
  • 1 oz Malibu® coconut rum
  • 1 oz 99 Bananas® banana schnapps
  • 1 oz Stoli® Vanil vodka
  • 2 oz orange juice
  • 2 oz pineapple juice
  • 1 splash grenadine syrup

Combine all ingredients (except grenadine) together over ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a hurricane glass filled with ice. Float grenadine on top and serve.

Melon Colada
  • 1 part white rum
  • 2 parts Midori® melon liqueur
  • 2 parts cream of coconut
  • 4 parts pineapple juice

Blend ingredients. Best served in a hurricane glass with a straw.

 
Blue Hawaiian
  • 1 oz light rum
  • 2 oz pineapple juice
  • 1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
  • 1 oz cream of coconut
  • 1 cherry
  • 1 slice pineapple

Blend light rum, Blue Curacao, pineapple juice and cream of coconut with one cup ice in an electric blender at high speed. Pour contents into a highball glass. Decorate with the slice of pineapple and a cherry.

Kona Village Mai Tai
  • 1/2 cup pineapple juice
  • 6 tbsp sweet and sour mix
  • 3 tbsp light rum
  • 3 tbsp gold rum
  • 3 tbsp Orange Curacao liqueur
  • 2 tbsp dark rum
  • crushed ice

Mix first 6 ingredients in a pitcher. Fill highball glasses with ice. Pour the mixture over. Garnish with pineapple wedges, if desired.

Lava Flow
  • 1 oz light rum
  • 1 oz Malibu® coconut rum
  • 2 oz strawberries
  • 1 banana
  • 2 oz pineapple juice
  • 2 oz coconut cream

Blend banana, coconut cream and pineapple juice in a blender and set aside. In the bottom of a hurricane glass, stir together both rums and strawberries.

Pour banana/coconut/pineapple mixture slowly into the glass. The strawberry/rum mix should creep up the sides of the glass to make a wonderful looking (and tasting) summertime cocktail!

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