Piña colada
| IBA Official Cocktail | |
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| Type | Mixed drink |
| Served | Blended |
| Standard garnish |
Pineapple slice and/or maraschino cherry |
| Standard drinkware | Poco |
| IBA specified ingredients* |
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| Preparation | Mix with crushed ice in blender until smooth. Pour into chilled glass, garnish and serve. |
| Notes | Alternately, the three main components can simply be added to a cocktail glass, and then add ice cubes. |
| * Piña colada recipe at International Bartenders Association | |
Pineapple slice and/or maraschino cherry
The piña colada (/ˌpiːnjə koʊˈlɑːdə, -nə-, -kə-/;Spanish: piña [ˈpiɲa], "pineapple," and colada [koˈlaða], "strained") is a sweet cocktail made with rum, coconut cream or coconut milk, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice. It may be garnished with either a pineapple wedge, maraschino cherry, or both. The piña colada has been the national drink of Puerto Rico since 1978.
The name piña colada literally means "strained pineapple", a reference to the freshly pressed and strained pineapple juice used in the drink's preparation.
Two bartenders from Puerto Rico won a contest for the ownership of their national drink. Ramón "Monchito" Marrero Pérez claims to have first made it at the Caribe Hilton Hotel's Beachcomber Bar in San Juan in 1954, using the then newly-available coco lópez cream of coconut. Coco lópez was developed in Puerto Rico in 1948 by Don Ramón López-Irizarry, hence the Puerto Rican connection and the 1952 account of the drink's creation. Some say the drink did not acquire its name until the 1960s.
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