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made it for my wife based on the original ratio from Woon's book; 60 ml pineapple to 30 ml rum, with tsp marchino and grenadine each, and it turned out wonderfully!

I used freshly squeezed pineapple juice of a quite ripe pineapple and the cocktail came out much sweeter than I expected. 1/3 shot of the lime juice made it perfect though

I normally tinker with recipes to suit my tastes, but this was perfect as is. Wonderful fresh flavour and beautiful pink color (using Rose's Grendine syrup).

Made this with SelvaRey White Rum & Luxardo Maraschino. Very nice. Pineapple is subtle and maraschino adds some spice/interest/complexity while still letting the rum come through. Grenadine is basically just for color. Curious to try this with different rums...

A delicious favourite. I prefer it with an aged rum, eg. 7yo Havana Club is great: it’s more mellow and forgiving of ratios.

Wonderful. Love the prohibition era cocktails of Cuba. They are different from the Tiki cocktails of the 1950s and 1960s. Tropical, but a bit different. Very well balanced.

Hard to be mad at rum and pineapple, but I was definitely missing a bit of lime juice or something for a touch more acidity. I also certainly didn't get a pink color—pale or otherwise.

Rum-forward in a good way. It's got a lot in common with a tiki drink but without the sour element to disguise the richness of the rum. I agree that the choice of rum matters here. I used a less-sweet-than-usual homemade grenadine and still found it quite sweet.