The 1960s tiki revival drink.
Why you are pouring this tonight
The Bahama Mama is a 1960s tiki revival drink and exactly what the name suggests, which is also exactly what is going to happen on a Saturday afternoon if you make a jug of them. Two rums (white and dark), coconut, pineapple, lime, grenadine sunk to the bottom for a tropical sunset effect. Cheerful as it sounds, more drinkable than it deserves to be, the kind of cocktail that suggests the second one is already inevitable.
Use real grenadine (Liber and Co or homemade pomegranate-and-sugar reduction). The neon-red supermarket grenadine is sugar with a memory of fruit and it cheapens the whole drink. White rum (Plantation 3 Stars), dark rum (Hamilton Black, Myers’s), optional 15mL of Malibu coconut rum if you want to lean further into the format. Shake everything except the grenadine with ice, strain into a hurricane glass full of crushed ice, drizzle the grenadine over the back of a barspoon so it sinks. Pineapple wedge, cherry. Pair with pool, beach, sunset.
What to pour it alongside
Pool. Beach. Sunset.
Notes
Use real grenadine (pomegranate-based, like Liber & Co or homemade) not the red sugar syrup. Real grenadine costs more but is the difference between dessert and cocktail.
The recipe
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