Tropical Drink Emoji 🍹

MAI TAI
2 oz / 60 ml aged Jamaican rum
0.75 oz / 22 ml fresh lime juice
0.5 oz / 15 ml orange curacao
0.5 oz / 15 ml orgeat
0.25 oz / 7 ml simple syrup

Shake with crushed ice, pour unstrained. Spent lime shell and a mint sprig.
Glass: double rocks.
Trader Vic, Oakland 1944, for two friends visiting from Tahiti. Lime is the only juice - pineapple came later, from someone else.

PINA COLADA
2 oz / 60 ml white rum
1.5 oz / 45 ml cream of coconut
1.5 oz / 45 ml pineapple juice
0.5 oz / 15 ml fresh lime juice

Blend with a cup of crushed ice until smooth, or shake hard and pour over crushed ice. Pineapple wedge.
Glass: hurricane or tall.
Cream of coconut, not coconut milk - different products. Credited to Ramon Marrero, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, 1954.

ZOMBIE (1934)
1.5 oz / 45 ml gold Puerto Rican rum
1.5 oz / 45 ml dark Jamaican rum
1 oz / 30 ml overproof Demerara rum
0.75 oz / 22 ml lime
0.5 oz / 15 ml falernum
0.5 oz / 15 ml Don's Mix (2:1 grapefruit juice to cinnamon syrup)
1 tsp grenadine, 6 drops absinthe, 1 dash Angostura

Flash blend with crushed ice. Tall glass, mint.
Donn Beach, Hollywood. He capped guests at two.

DAIQUIRI
2 oz / 60 ml white rum
1 oz / 30 ml fresh lime juice
0.75 oz / 22 ml simple syrup

Shake hard with ice until the tin frosts, double strain into a chilled coupe. Lime wheel.
Glass: coupe.
Three ingredients and nowhere to hide - bottled lime juice ruins it. Named for a beach near Santiago de Cuba, where American mining engineers were drinking it by the late 1890s.

HURRICANE
2 oz / 60 ml dark rum
2 oz / 60 ml light rum
2 oz / 60 ml passion fruit syrup
1 oz / 30 ml fresh lemon juice
0.5 oz / 15 ml simple syrup

Shake with ice, pour into a tall glass over fresh ice. Orange slice and a cherry.
Glass: hurricane lamp glass.
Pat O'Brien's, New Orleans, 1940s. Wartime supply made rum the easy spirit to get, so they built a drink around it.

PAINKILLER
2 oz / 60 ml dark navy rum
4 oz / 120 ml pineapple juice
1 oz / 30 ml orange juice
1 oz / 30 ml cream of coconut

Shake with ice, pour over fresh ice. Grate fresh nutmeg generously over the top - that is the signature, and pre-ground will not do it.
Glass: rocks or tall.
The 4:1:1 juice ratio is the recipe. From the Soggy Dollar Bar, Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands, 1970s.

BLUE HAWAII
0.75 oz / 22 ml white rum
0.75 oz / 22 ml vodka
0.75 oz / 22 ml blue curacao
3 oz / 90 ml pineapple juice
1 oz / 30 ml sweet and sour

Shake with ice, pour over crushed ice. Pineapple wedge and a cherry.
Glass: tall or hurricane.
Harry Yee, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki, 1957, made to order for a Bols rep who wanted the blue liqueur used. Not the Blue Hawaiian, which adds coconut.

🍹 Tropical Drink, U+1F379

A distinct character from Unicode 6.0 in 2010, not a variant of the cocktail glass. Vendors draw a
hurricane or tiki glass, an orange or pink drink, fruit on the rim and a straw or umbrella. The
V-bowl you may be thinking of is a different codepoint, U+1F378, and a different family of drinks.

Vendor art varies more here than anywhere else in the drinks block. Glass shape, liquid colour,
umbrella and fruit are all vendor decisions, so the drink your friend sees may be a different colour
from the one you sent.

Colours that do not have a character

There is no pink, purple or blue drink emoji. Unicode encodes the vessel, not the contents, and
there is no colour modifier for food and drink the way there is for skin tone. The nearest honest
match for each:

Zombie

• 45 ml gold rum, 45 ml dark rum, 30 ml overproof rum
• 20 ml lime juice, 20 ml grapefruit juice
• 15 ml falernum, 10 ml cinnamon syrup, 5 ml grenadine
• Dash of absinthe, dash of Angostura

1. Blend briefly with crushed ice, or shake and pour unstrained.
2. Serve in a tall glass packed with more crushed ice, mint on top.
3. Don the Beachcomber built it in 1934, a year after Repeal, and kept the spec secret for decades.

Mai Tai

• 60 ml aged rum
• 30 ml lime juice
• 15 ml orange curacao
• 15 ml orgeat

1. Shake with crushed ice.
2. Pour unstrained into a rocks glass or tiki mug.
3. Garnish with the spent lime shell and mint. There is no pineapple juice in the original, whatever
   the resort bar poured you.

Painkiller

• 60 ml dark rum
• 120 ml pineapple juice
• 30 ml orange juice
• 30 ml cream of coconut

1. Shake hard with ice.
2. Pour into a tall glass over fresh ice.
3. Grate nutmeg over the top. The nutmeg is not optional; it is the drink’s signature.

Planter’s Punch

• 1 part lime juice
• 2 parts sugar syrup
• 3 parts dark Jamaican rum
• 4 parts water or crushed ice

1. Build in a tall glass. The old rhyme carries the recipe: one of sour, two of sweet, three of
   strong, four of weak.
2. Add bitters, stir, garnish with fruit.

Tiki exists because of Repeal – rum was cheap and legally back first, and the bars around it
turned a supply accident into a style. For the V-bowl side see cocktail
emoji and martini emoji; for the soft tall drinks see
juice emoji.