Recipe

• 3 parts golden rum

• 1 part coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlúa)

• 2 parts coconut liqueur​ (e.g. Malibu or Coco Bay)

• 2 parts lemon juice

• 8 parts ​pineapple juice

Shake everything together with ice and pour into a Tiki mug (or anything tropical-looking). Fill with ice, then add a cherry, an umbrella, and a straw.

I bought some pineapple juice recently, figuring I could use a taste of the summer in the cold, miserable winter we're experiencing. After the always-popular French martini and a pineapple-and-soda for breakfast, I still had plenty left to play with, and I went looking online!

Tiki culture is defined by Wikipedia as "a motif of exotically decorated bars and restaurants catering to an escapist longing for travel to tropical regions of the South Pacific." I've often heard of Tiki cocktails, but haven't really looked into them before. It basically seems to mean drinks containing rum and tropical fruit juice, and there was a good selection of recipes that caught my eye. Most of them involved something called "orgeat syrup" which I'll have to look into at some point, but this one looked more doable.

The result is lovely, being very drinkable for something so strong. The coffee liqueur is surprising, but works really well, just adding some depth to the otherwise light drink. The original recipe calls for dark rum, which I think would also be an advantage. I'll have to get myself some of that too.

I could see several of these disappearing on a sunny day, and I'll be sure to try it next time one of those occurs. I could also imagine it as a nice punch in a communal bowl, and I'll be considering it the next time I can actually have people round to my house.

Best drunk while listening to this.