Rum With Punch? The Painkiller

This past weekend, a few of us whipped up an excellent drink from the BVI. The Painkiller originates from the Soggy Dollar Bar in Jost Van Dyke, just north of St. John. The only difficult thing about this drink is finding one of the ingredients, Coco Lopez (creme de coconut – not the same as coconut milk), but we eventually hunted it down at Gristede’s. Make a batch of these for a party, and your guests will be feeling no pain.

Cocktail Recipe: The Painkiller

adapted from Pusser’s

Pusser’s rum, or any good-quality amber rum
4 parts pineapple juice
1 part Coco Lopez* (creme de coconut)
1 part orange juice
freshly grated nutmeg
orange slices
maraschino cherries
paper umbrellas or plastic sword toothpicks*

Make the Painkiller mix: Stir pineapple juice, Coco Lopez, and orange juice together in a pitcher. Fill a glass – either a Collins glass, old fashioned glass, punch cup, or whatever looks festive – with ice and add rum to taste. Fill the remainder with the Painkiller mix. Grate nutmeg on top. Spear an orange slice and maraschino cherry with a paper umbrella or sword toothpick and garnish.

* Coco Lopez, paper umbrellas, plastic sword toothpicks, and almost every other obscure bar necessity you can imagine are sold at Gristede’s.