Gosh, who couldn’t use a tropical escape right now? Although we’d rather be drinking this delicious tropical combination of coconut and guava on our favorite Caribbean beach, the taste, at least, will remind us of swinging in a hammock with the sound of gentle waves lapping the shore. Ahhh…

The Tropical Escape is super easy to make and we like to add the optional floater to ours. The taste of the guava and coconut blended together is delicate, so although we frequently use a dark rum as a floater, we opted for a good gold rum (we used Cruzan aged). It added a little more rum taste and a slightly stronger alcohol content without overpowering the cocktail.

*We love bringing you amazing rum recipes! Our recipes may contain affiliate links to products that we use. If you click the link and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you). Thank you for your support in helping us to continue providing rumlicious, tropical recipes!

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

The Tropical Escape

This delicate tropical taste combination of coconut rum and guava will have you dreaming of the islands.

Servings:

Ingredients

4 oz. Coconut Rum (we used Blue Chair Bay Coconut Rum)
4 oz. Guava Nectar (or guava juice if you can't find the nectar)
4 tsp. Lemon Juice
6 dashes Bitters
2 tsp. Simple Syrup
4 oz. Coconut Water
2 – 4 oz. Gold Rum for Floater (optional)
Pineapple Fronds and/or Pineapple Chunks (for garnish)

Instructions

Combine the coconut rum, guava nectar, lemon juice, bitters and coconut water in a large cocktail shaker and shake or stir to blend.
Add crushed ice to glasses (we used martini glasses like these), and pour the cocktail over the ice.
Add 1/2 – 1 oz. of floater to each glass, if desired.
Garnish with pineapple fronds and a chunk of pineapple.

And for more delicious rum recipes, visit our Rum Recipe Picture Directory