Rum Cocktails: Rhum Agricole
Painkiller Cocktail
Painkiller Cocktail Ingredients
0.75 oz. Rhum J.M Gold
0.75 oz. Ron Del Barrilito 3 Star
1 oz. Fresh orange juice
1 oz. Coconut syrup
1 oz. Fresh pineapple juice
0.25 tsp. Fresh grated nutmeg
Garnish
Tropical fruit
Fresh grated nutmeg
Straw
Painkiller Cocktail Preparation
Fill a Louis bag with ice and crush with a mallet. Combine all ingredients in a Hurricane or tall footed glass or tiki mug and add crushed ice. Swizzle, add more crushed ice, and swizzle again. Top with crushed ice. Garnish with tropical fruits and fresh nutmeg.
Painkiller Cocktail Story
Originating in 1971 at the Soggy Dollar Bar on a remote British Virgin Island called Jost Van Dyke, the Painkiller’s future and reputation was forever changed when Pusser’s copyrighted the drink in 1981. That the drink was originally made with a blend of rums, and not the company’s funky, navy-style rum was all but forgotten when the company infamously filed a 2010 lawsuit against the beloved New York City tiki bar named after the cocktail, forcing the owners to erase any mention of the word Painkiller from their establishment. The ensuing backlash from bar owners may have hurt the brand, however it did little to dent the popularity of the drink itself, which is quite simply a rich variation of a Piña Colada. Indeed, part of the appeal of a Painkiller to the modern bartender may lie in deviating from the brand’s recipe, tinkering with different rums to approximate what the original may have tasted like.