PAINKILLER
Painkiller Cocktail Recipe | Soggy Dollar Bar BVI History
The original Painkiller was created in the 1970s at the Soggy Dollar Bar at White Bay on the island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. The inventor may have been Daphne Henderson, or George and Marie Myrick, previous owners of the Soggy Dollar. It was originally made using Cruzan Rum Wikipedia.
The bar was owned by an English lady, Daphne Henderson. Boaters, including Pusser's founder, Charles Tobias, came from distant places to sample her version of the Painkiller for which she'd become locally famous Pusser's Rum. The bar earned its name because there was no dock, requiring patrons to swim ashore with wet dollars.
Daphne Henderson and Charles Tobias became good friends, but in spite of their close friendship, and no matter how he tried, she refused to divulge her secret recipe for the cocktail. One late Sunday afternoon, Tobias somehow managed to get one of her concoctions back through the surf and into his boat, and ultimately into his kitchen on Tortola where he worked out a "4-1-1-1" ratio—four parts pineapple, one part cream of coconut and one part orange juice adding Pusser's Rum to suit Pusser's Rum.
In 1989, Pusser's Rum Ltd. filed a US trademark on the Painkiller's name and recipe Wikipedia.
RECIPE:
2 oz Pusser's Rum (or dark rum)
4 oz pineapple juice
1 oz orange juice
1 oz cream of coconut
Freshly grated nutmeg
Orange slice and cherry for garnish
Method:
Add rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, and cream of coconut to shaker with ice
Shake vigorously
Strain into glass filled with ice
Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg, orange slice, and cherry