My Favorite Flavors in Modern Tropical Cocktails

The tropical cocktail flavor combination that I always love in drinks and for whatever reason always surprises me is pineapple and cinnamon. This isn't a new combination of flavors but it's the one that seems to be more popular in the modern era of cocktails and by that I mean the late 2000s to like the early 2010s. Some of my favorite drinks use that combination. And there's another modern style of tropical drinks that I always enjoy and am surprised by as well whenever I have these drinks, and it's those that use an Amaro. Also not new, something Trader Vic was even doing long ago. So I thought today I would share something that's simple and balanced that kind of reflects those drinks without being too overly complicated. This is an introduction to modern tropical cocktails. An exploration of pineapple, cinnamon, and spice. Yes, that is the full name of this drink. It's rum, it's juice, it's cinnamon, and it's spice. The spice coming from cinnamon, Angostura bitters, and Averna, which is an ingredient that shows up in several of my favorite modern tropical cocktails. Now some of you may know that I have shared many acid-adjusted cocktails here and I even have my Acid adjusting solutions to help you easily acid adjust cocktails, but this drink is not acid adjusted And that's for I think a couple of reasons. First of all, I like the flavor of the lime juice and second This is not a real bar. There's no bar program There are no guests and you probably don't have a real bar either So sometimes when you are thinking about making drinks, you can go maximalist and try to imitate your favorite bartenders but the truth is Very few other people will ever go out of their way to make that drink. And when you are already asking people to get something new or unique, like Averna, which, yes, it's new and unique to probably a strong majority of people watching this, you sometimes wanna remove the hurdles if you want people to try it. This is an introduction, after all. And I'm serving this in the new Colorway Make and Drink Mai Tai Glass. I'm sold out of the original Mai Tai glasses from a few years ago, and then sold out of the two runs I did of the newest glasses. From the summer, which featured what I was calling the Kamehameha colorway. These might be done for good, I haven't really decided yet, but the new colorway, Blue Cane, is now available until sold out. I think I have enough for like 60 to 75 orders tops. Now, I like the overall design of the glassware from this version and the previous one, and I'm gonna keep that design for a while, but just update the colors occasionally or when they sell out. So check that out in the Mega Drinks shop. For these as well as some other vintage glassware that I'm selling. So let's make an introduction to modern tropical cocktails and exploration of pineapple, cinnamon, and spice. I'm going to start with two dashes of Angostura bitters, three quarter ounces of lime juice, one ounce of pineapple juice, half an ounce of cinnamon syrup, three quarter ounces of Averna, and two ounces of an aged Jamaican rum. The preference here is Appleton 8. The garnish, it's a slice of pineapple, some mint, A flower, preferably tropical, which I don't have access to. And then for a spice component, we're going to grate some nutmeg over the top. And then if you have some lying around, carefully light some cinnamon on fire. This will fill your room with this amazing aroma, reminding you of a tiki tropical bar. There you go. An introduction to modern tropical cocktails and exploration of pineapple cinnamon. And just so we're clear, this is not an unusual drink with unusual ingredients. I'm sure something like this exists out there in the world. So let's try it. Cheers. It feels like a juicy grog. You get the rich, dark flavors from Averna and the cinnamon syrup and the rum, but then it's livened up there because of the use of pineapple juice. A lot of those pineapple and cinnamon drinks that I really enjoy, one of them that comes to mind is the Rongo Rongo. A lot of that is pineapple paired with the spiciness of cinnamon. This is less of that because of the Averna. The Averna has an orange peel undertone. Just like a cola spice, not exactly like the grogs that use Coca-Cola or a grog concentrate syrup, but it has those flavors. And it does not overpower the drink. I tried this a few times with a full ounce of Averna and it did. It made it just a little bit too bitter even though Averna is not super bitter, but just overall a little bit too bitter and then that flavor dominated a little bit too much. But overall a relatively pretty simple drink and if you haven't played around much with the different types of Amaro that you can put into a tropical drink, it's something you should try and Averna might just well be the the easiest one to plug in. There are a bunch of other cocktails with Averna that I love, including one of my favorites, the Permanent Holiday Cocktail. I'm thinking off the top of my head, I think the Bog Cutter may have had Averna. If not, I will depart from the video. But it is something that is, I don't want to say basic as in bad, but it is a relatively basic Amaro that I think most people will enjoy. It's not overly bitter. Uh, too unusual, there's not too much of that, like, strong, herbal, rooty, dried, you know, greens flavor that you get from, from many other ones. Like, it has some botanical notes, but it doesn't overpower anything. So that's it for this one. If you want to support this channel more, go check out my Patreon page. 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