Bahama Mama
ClassicTwo rums, pineapple, and a splash of the tropics.
Sweet and juicy, with pineapple and orange leading a wave of tropical fruit. Two rums keep it from being a mocktail, lime cuts the sweetness, and grenadine adds a berry-red finish — easy, breezy, and unapologetically fun.
Ingredients
- 1 oz Dark Rum
- 1 oz White Rum
- 2 oz Pineapple Juice
- 1 oz Fresh Orange Juice
- 0.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice
- 0.5 oz Grenadine
- Pineapple wedge · optional garnish
- Cherry · optional garnish
Method
- 1
Add every ingredient to a shaker with ice.
- 2
Shake until well chilled.
- 3
Pour into an ice-filled hurricane glass.
- 4
Garnish with a pineapple wedge and a cherry.
The Story
The Bahama Mama is a Caribbean beach-bar staple, a fruit-forward rum cooler that spread through the islands and cruise-ship circuit in the latter half of the twentieth century. Unlike the coded Beachcomber recipes, it never had a single author — it is the sun-soaked, crowd-pleasing face of tiki. Grenadine gives it the sunset gradient that made it a photograph before it was a drink.
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