Name: El Coco
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light white rum; 30 ml Coconut water; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 5 ml Lime juice

El Coco
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe Engraved 7.75oz

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1 oz	Coconut water
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₆ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Rum and coconut water with the merest hint of lime.

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Variant:

Caribeño

History:

Created in 2008 by Richard Hunt at Mahiki in London, England and named after the coconut palm outside the original Bacardi distillery in Santiago de Cuba.

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Nutrition:

One serving of El Coco contains 147 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.91% alc./vol. (18.91° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Peter McCarthy

18th March 2024 at 04:55

I originally made this with Havana Club Puerto Rican rum and it was not great. (I had to added more lime juice to make it palatable for me...) I just tried it with Plantation 3 Stars and it's much improved! Good if you want something simple and rum-forward. Probably great on a hot day.

G. M. Genovese

29th March 2024 at 18:06

Peter, I just had a similar experience using Brugal Extra Dry. Luckily, I did also have Plantation 3 Stars on hand, and that was much better, though I'm still not floored by this drink. I would think extra lime helps, like you suggested.

Peter McCarthy

13th March 2024 at 04:23

I'm curious to try this with a "nice" coconut rum (something like Koloa)...

Sally Morgan

19th March 2023 at 20:04

Quite a ‘clean’ taste - the homeopathic lime really works to give a subtle kick. Dialled back the sugar syrup but then I usually do

Simon Difford

2nd April 2023 at 19:48

Many thanks, Sally. Agreed! better with a 1/3rd less sugar - I've reduced accordingly.

Simon Difford

17th April 2022 at 09:43

Thanks Tessa. I've added a link to the Caribeño above.

Tessa .

17th April 2022 at 04:02

Far better balanced that the Caribeño which has the same ingredients in drastically different proportions. Very rum forward, but I would make again it when I was in the mood for something this boozy.

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