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January 16, 2021November 19, 2021

Painkiller Punch

A slight variation on the Caribbean favorite drink, the Painkiller, the Painkiller Punch lightens it up just a tad with coconut rum instead of cream of coconut. Additionally a splash of grendadine is added for color, we used coconut water ice cubes and of course we added a delicious dark rum floater. SO tropically delicious!

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Painkiller Punch

Servings:

Ingredients

6 oz Pineapple Juice
4 oz Orange Juice (fresh squeezed, if possible!)
1 oz Coconut Rum (we used Blue Chair Bay Coconut Rum)
1 oz Gold Rum (we used Cruzan Aged Dark Rum)
1/2 – 1 oz Dark Rum (we used Myers Dark)
Splash Grenadine
Freshly Grated Nutmeg
Pineapple Cubes
Coconut Water (for ice cubes)

Instructions

Pour coconut water into a mini ice cube tray and freeze ahead of time.
In a cocktail shaker, mix together the pineapple juice, orange juice, coconut rum, and gold rum.
Shake well, then pour over coconut ice cubes in a small glass.
Slowly pour a splash of grenadine over the ice in each glass and let sink to the bottom.
Slowly pour up to 1/2 oz. dark rum (as a floater) onto the top of each drink.
Garnish with fresh pineapple or orange slices on a cocktail pick.

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October 30, 2019June 24, 2021

Ghoulish Goblets of Punch

Bloody delicious….The Ghoulish Goblets of Punch are perfect to keep the adult goblins satisfied this Halloween. Very easy to make and can easily be doubled (or more!) and mixed in a punch bowl if you’re having a monster of a party. Happy Halloween!

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Ghoulish Goblets of Punch

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Author: Rum Therapy

Ingredients

1/2 c. Aged rum
1 c. Cranberry Pomegranate Juice (or 1/2 c. cranberry juice and 1/2 c. pomegranate juice)
1/2 c. Pineapple Juice
Splash Grenadine
Orange slices

Instructions

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker.
Shake well, then pour into goblets.
Garnish with orange slices and spooky props.

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September 20, 2016June 24, 2021

4 Delicious Recipes to try on National Rum Punch Day!

Happy National Rum Punch Day! In case you feel like celebrating (or just need a good recipe in the future), here are 4 delicious recipes to try on National Rum Punch Day. Let us know which one is your favorite!

1. Authentic Rum Punch

1 of sour, 2 of sweet
3 of strong, 4 of weak
Find out what that means in this
Authentic Rum Punch Recipe

2. Caribbean Rum Punch

Use the juices listed, or create your own signature Rum Punch by changing up the flavors!
Caribbean Rum Punch Recipe

3. Coconut Rum Punch

If you like the taste of coconut, you’ll love this one!
Coconut Rum Punch Recipe

4. Pineapple Rum Punch

Two less ingredients than the Coconut Rum Punch and you can substitute a gold rum for the Coconut Rum. Less ingredients = more pineapple taste! Mmmm…tropically delicious!

Pineapple Rum Punch Recipe

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January 20, 2016June 24, 2021

Pineapple Rum Punch

This recipe makes a tropical concoction that will have you daydreaming of swinging in a hammock on a beautiful beach. Light, tasty and easy with just a bit of effervescence – tropically delicious!

Don’t like coconut so much? No problem – it tastes great with a nice gold rum instead of the coconut rum. Don’t know why it took us so long to give this one a try but it’ll surely be one we’ll put together again and again. Cheers!

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Pineapple Rum Punch

This recipe makes a tropical concoction that will have you daydreaming of swinging in a hammock on a beautiful beach. Light, tasty and easy with just a bit of effervescence – tropically delicious!

Servings:

Ingredients

1 cup ginger ale
1 cup pineapple juice
1/3 cup coconut rum (we used Blue Chair Bay)
cracked ice
pineapple chunks for garnish (fresh, if at all possible)

Instructions

Mix the ginger ale, pineapple juice and rum together and pour in glasses over cracked ice.
Garnish with chunks of fresh pineapple and if you really want to go wild, add a little freshly grated nutmeg!

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August 20, 2015November 7, 2020

Coconut Rum Punch

We’re big fans of rum punch – all kinds, made with fruit juices or fruit and different rums. Such an easy drink to change up and play with different combinations of flavors. We ran across this Coconut Rum Punch recipe by Kimberly of A Night Owl on Pinterest, and were initially attracted by the delicious looking picture, but after putting it together, the taste is equally delicious! We made a smaller version of the recipe than originally posted (we didn’t want to waste any!), but you can easily double it for adult get-togethers!

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Coconut Rum Punch

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Servings:

Author: Night Owl, presented by Rum Therapy

Ingredients

1/2 c. Coconut Rum
1 c. Orange Juice
1 c. Pineapple Juice
1 c. Ginger Ale
1/2 c. Grenadine
Maraschino Cherries (for garnish)

Instructions

Mix together the coconut rum, orange juice, pineapple juice and ginger ale.
Pour over ice in tall glasses.
Slowly add equal parts grenadine to each glass.
The grenadine will sink to the bottom creating a beautiful looking drink. Garnish with a skewer of maraschinos add a biodegradable straw and enjoy!

You might also like:
Authentic Rum Punch Recipe
Caribbean Rum Punch

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April 1, 2015June 24, 2021

5 Spring Rum Cocktails

Spring showers bring light, fruity and delicious rum cocktails?

If you’re like us, when the weather finally starts to warm and winter fades away, we lean towards cocktails that are a bit lighter, fruity and refreshing. Here’s a list of 5 that will add a little “Spring” to your rum drink list.

Light And Minty Cran Rum Recipe

Skinny Strawberry Rum & Lemonade Recipe

Mango Mojito Recipe

Caribbean Mist Recipe

And finally, the Caribbean Rum Punch! We love this drink because we can add whatever juices we have on hand and it always seems to taste great!

Caribbean Rum Punch

Cheers to Spring!

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October 9, 2013July 25, 2019

Elvis’ Beach Bar, Anguilla

Touted as having the “Best Rum Punch in Anguilla”, we knew we had to make a stop at Elvis’ Beach Bar in Anguilla to check it out. We made our first stop at Elvis’ on a sail to Anguilla a few years back. We anchored in Road Bay and immediately noticed the activity around Elvis’.

Elvis’ sits on a stretch of beautiful sugar soft sand in Sandy Ground Village and offers up views like this of Road Bay.

We had only a very short time to visit that first time to Anguilla, so we sat at the boat bar, sampled a rum punch and then reluctantly headed back to our boat as we had an early morning departure planned. The music and partying ran into the wee morning hours at Elvis’, and we vowed to return someday to experience more.

Fast forward a couple of years and we scheduled a return to Anguilla and Elvis’ was on the list. Unfortunately, due to very poor planning on our part, Elvis’ Beach Bar was CLOSED the day we were there and although we were able to look around and take a few pictures, we were unable to meet Elvis OR test out the fantastical rum punch again…

Sigh.

We spent a few minutes relaxing on the chairs in front of Elvis’, and then moved on to one of the other great beach bars in Sandy Ground.

Elvis, we’ll be back! Can you have a few rum punches ready for us?

Have you enjoyed a rum punch at Elvis’ Beach bar?

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August 30, 2013August 4, 2021

Authentic Rum Punch Recipe

1 of sour
2 of sweet
3 of strong
4 of weak

This is the rhyme commonly used to recall the recipe for an authentic rum punch. Just try remembering it after trying one
(or two!)
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Can’t quite remember where we sampled our first rum punch. Barbados? Jamaica? Hmmm – I know we’ve enjoyed them on many islands, and they all seem to have a completely different taste. Is it the rum used? Is is the “sweet” ingredient or the “weak” ingredient? I think it’s safe to say – all of the above – with a huge dose of “who you’re enjoying it with and where”.

For this recipe we used Grenadine as the “sweet”, although it’s common in countries such as Jamaica to use a strawberry or cherry syrup. A simple syrup (1 part sugar to 2 parts water) can also be used, but you will forfeit the fruity taste and red coloring.

In this recipe we used water as the “weak”. In other rum punch recipes, such as our Caribbean Rum Punch, different fruit juices are used instead of water, creating endless opportunities to vary the taste depending on the juices used. As water seems to be used in the most authentic versions, that’s what we used here – and liked the result!

By using the measurement in the rhyme above, it’s easy to make a large batch of this tasty rum concoction for parties and gatherings by multiplying the measurements – that way you can mix it ahead and just sit back and enjoy….

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Authentic Rum Punch

1 of sour, 2 of sweet, 3 of strong, 4 of weak...this is the rhyme commonly used to remember the recipe for an authentic rum punch.

Course: Drinks

Servings:

Ingredients

1 oz. Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 oz. Grenadine (simple syrup, cherry syrup or strawberry syrup are also commonly used)
3 oz. Rum (we used Appleton V/X)
4 oz. Water
Dash of Angostura Bitters
Nutmeg (this is optional in authentic rum punch, but we always use freshly grated nutmeg)

Instructions

Pour all ingredients in a glass over ice and stir.
Sprinkle with a little freshly grated nutmeg and garnish with a lime or orange slice, add a biodegradeable straw and enjoy!

Notes

We have also used Mount Gay Eclipse with very good results. Some use Wray & Nephew for a very potent punch. Every rum has it’s own unique taste – so experiment to see which you like best!

August 28, 2013April 23, 2021

Sandbox Bar & Grill, Prickly Pear Island, BVI

On a beautiful white sand beach on the uninhabited Prickly Pear Island in the BVI, sits a great little beach bar called Sandbox Bar & Grill. In the picture above, taken from Hog Heaven, which sits high atop Virgin Gorda, you can see North Sound, Prickly Pear Island and Sandbox. Sandbox is only accessible by boat.

Update: Many of the businesses, buildings and residences in North Sound, Virgin Gorda were damaged or destroyed in the 2017 hurricanes including Sandbox Bar & Grill. They did rebuild and the four photos below are current as of March 2020. The original article is below the new photos.

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Original Article

During our most recent visit to Virgin Gorda, we rented a luxurious dinghy (last one available – that’s what we get for not planning ahead!) from Leverick Bay Resort & Marina and set off to explore the beautiful North Sound.

Sandbox was our last planned stop of the day, so we tied up our dinghy at the dock at Vixen Point and scurried ashore to check it out.

There were just a few people sitting at the bar that early afternoon, but the bartender said it would soon be VERY busy as a huge private party was was making their way to Sandbox from the Bitter End Yacht Club for some fun in the sun, beautiful water and the white sand.

Due to the incoming party, there were a lot of beach chairs situated that day on the beautiful beach.

Since we still had the place nearly to ourselves, we picked out a prime spot and ordered a really tasty Rum Punch.

We enjoyed the beautiful view of the North Sound, all the boats, and watched a seaplane land in the water not too far away. If we had more time, we would have really loved to take the hike on the path from Vixen Point around the salt ponds to what we heard were two more beautiful and secluded beaches on the north shore of Prickly Pear Island – another reason to go back I guess…

Having arranged ahead of time which one of us would be the designated dinghy driver that day and to avoid a DDD (drunk dinghy driving), we thought it best to stop at one Rum Punch (although we REALLY wanted another!) As we made our way back to the dock, we noticed that it was starting to get busy at the Sandbox.

As we headed back to Leverick Bay (with Mosquito Island off to the right), we realized just how many great things there are to see and do in the North Sound area and how we’d love to come back and stay for a week, a month, or maybe a lifetime??

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August 16, 2013August 16, 2013

National Rum Day

Today is National Rum Day. Rum. That’s right, Rum has it’s own day.

Finding the Rhum on St. Barths

When we started the company Rum Therapy in 2010, we knew little more about rum than it was an ingredient in some of our favorite island cocktails; piña coladas, rum punch and painkillers, oh and bushwackers – can’t forget bushwackers… And that rum appeared in the lyrics of many Kenny Chesney and Jimmy Buffett songs. And that wherever you go in the islands, there’s rum.
That’s it.

Painkillers at the Soggy Dollar, Jost Van Dyke

See our list (and recipes!) of the 10 Best Tropical Rum Drinks

Since then, we’ve learned a lot more. I mean, when you start with virtually no knowledge of a subject, you’ve got a ways to go. We’re not experts by any means, like our friend Dave Russell of Rum Gallery, but we’ve learned more about how rum is distilled and different types of rum and what rums are good for sipping or mixing in cocktails and although it’s not our goal to become rum experts, we’re certainly up for the challenge of learning more about this spirit with a long and storied history.

Rum Punch at Happy Island, The Grenadines

So, we’ll continue to do the research (best done in the islands on beautiful beach or at a great beach bar or on a boat, don’t you think?) with the hope of continuing to provide the best rum experiences possible (cocktail recipes, best beach bars, best locations to sip tropical libations, distillery tours, etc., etc., etc.)

In the meantime, be sure to check out the plethora of rum recipes available on our website either by category or by picture (prepare to drool just a little):

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So today, let’s lift our glasses (of rum) to Rum.
Cheers Rum!

Rum Drinks at Hog Heaven, Virgin Gorda