Pineapple juice

Used in 7 recipes on RecipeWiki.

Pineapple juice is sweet, tangy and tropical, with enough acidity to keep it from tasting flat in a drink. It is the base of the Piña Colada, where it meets coconut and rum, and of the Painkiller, and it lengthens the Bahama Mama and Blue Hawaii. Shaken hard with ice it develops a fine, lasting foam, which is why a Singapore Sling often arrives with a frothy head. Choose unsweetened juice where possible, since sweetened juice makes already-sweet drinks cloying. Once a carton is open, keep it in the fridge and use it within a few days, before it starts to ferment and taste fizzy.

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Recipes with pineapple juice

Bahama Mama — shot from directly overhead: two rums with coconut

Bahama Mama

Two rums with coconut, pineapple and grenadine, shaken and poured tall over ice so the red sinks through it.

15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus

Blue Hawaii — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame

Blue Hawaii

Rum, vodka, pineapple and blue curaçao — a drink invented to match a colour, and none the worse for admitting it.

15 minutesAmericanCocktails

Frozen Melon Colada — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame

Frozen Melon Colada

White rum, melon liqueur, pineapple and coconut blended into a thick pale-green frozen cocktail with a clean lime finish.

15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus

Painkiller — shot from directly overhead: dark rum with pineapple

Painkiller

Dark rum with pineapple, orange and coconut cream, shaken rather than blended, and finished with far more grated nutmeg than seems reasonable.

15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus

Piña Colada — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame

Piña Colada

Rum, pineapple and coconut cream blended with ice until thick enough to hold a straw upright.

15 minutesCaribbeanCocktails

Rum Swizzle — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame

Rum Swizzle

Two rums, two juices and bitters churned with crushed ice until the glass frosts and the drink turns cloudy and cold.

15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus

Singapore Sling — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame

Singapore Sling

Gin, cherry brandy and pineapple built long over ice — the hotel-bar drink that survived a century of people getting it wrong.

15 minutesCitrusCocktails