Blue Hawaii

Difford's Guide
Discerning Drinkers (75 ratings)

Serve in

Hurricane glass

Photographed in

Hurricane Squall 15oz

Garnish:

Pineapple wedge, Luxardo Maraschino cherry, paper parasol and straw

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into glass filled with crushed ice.

3/4 fl oz Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
3/4 fl oz Ketel One Vodka
1/2 fl oz Blue curaçao liqueur
3 fl oz Pineapple juice (freshly extracted/pressed/squeezed)
1/3 fl oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
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Review:

Aloha!

Variant:

Serve as a layered drink by first pouring blue curaçao into ice-filled glass. SHAKE other ingredients and carefully strain into ice-filled glass so it layers over blue curaçao. Some also opt to serve with a rum float.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 1957 by Harry K. Yee at Henry Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Hotel (latterly the Hilton) in Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii. The drink, created at the behest of Bols to aid sales of their blue curaçao, is named after the hit song from the 1937 Bing Crosby film, Waikiki Wedding, and not after what is generously described as a "musical-comedy" Elvis Presley 1961 film of the same name. That said, the Elvis film probably contributed to this cocktail's popularity.

Nutrition:

228 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.2 standard drinks
  • 9.48% alc./vol. (18.96° proof)
  • 17.1 grams of pure alcohol
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