Name: Caribbean Colada
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Light white rum; 30 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 30 ml Pineapple liqueur; 5 ml Coconut syrup; 5 ml Passion fruit syrup; 30 ml Orange juice

Caribbean Colada
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Serve in a Hurricane glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1 oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
1 oz	Giffard Caribbean Pineapple liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Coconut Syrup
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Passion Fruit Syrup
1 oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Hurricane glass.
Prepare garnish of pineapple, Luxardo Maraschino Cherry & paper parasol.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Rum and pineapple strike up a tropical harmony, helped by coconut, passionfruit and orange.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe promoted by Giffard in June 2016 with the launch of their Caribbean Pineapple liqueur.

Nutrition:

One serving of Caribbean Colada contains 266 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
16.97% alc./vol. (16.97° proof)
22.1 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

28th October 2023 at 01:38

Being a big rum drinker and having many original tiki mugs and cocktail books, I found this a little on the disappointing side. It wasn't awful, but seems to lack some flavours. The pineapple and coconut flavours were weak, and not what I was expecting from anything with Colada in its name.

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