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Haven’t invested in a bottle of Heering yet, so improvised with 1/4 oz of Luxardo Maraschino and 1/4 oz of Luxardo cherry syrup. Still delicious!

Ooops, just added double the triple sec (Combier), so I substituted Luxardo Apricot for the cherry, reduced to 10ml; and 7.5 ml Hayman's Sloe Gin instead of grenadine. Also kind'a leaned in on the gin. Delicious!

Being from the country where this is from, and having had it in the Raffles Bar itself - my first alcoholic drink after being allowed to drink legally, this was in 1986 - I can honestly say this formula is the closest to my memory of the drink.

Before this I'd only had the fantastic Smuggler's Cove formula. The DeGroff recipe is slightly too tart and pineapple-forward to my taste, though still good. To compensate for this I would drop the pineapple juice to 1 shot and perhaps up the grenadine to a teaspoon or 1/4 shot.

hi all, I tried this version with a Roku gin, it stresses well the fruity side of the cocktail by adding a gentle citrus note

Flat-out delicious!

Prefer this to “sparkling” versions - the smooth pineapple foam is superior to club soda fizz.

This recipe is one I have come back to many times, delicious as it is. Trying tiny variants, I sometimes prefer the overt cherry fruitiness of De Kuyper Cherry Brandy, or a combination of that with Cherry Heering. Omitting the Bénédictine does not cause a massive change of flavour IMO and the final colour is more attractively pink, but purists will lament a depth of flavour lost. Today, I also tried with half lime, half lemon juice. It lost its poignancy so I recommend to keep with all lime juic