Jamaican Me Crazy Cocktail Recipe

If you left tropical cocktails you’ve got to try the Jamaican me crazy cocktail. This combination of various juices and liquors creates a beautifully orangish pink drink that is full of sweet fruity flavor.

What is a Jamaican Me Crazy Cocktail?

How to making me crazy cocktail is a combination of white rum, coconut rum, banana liqueur, orange juice, cranberry juice, passion fruit juice and pineapple juice. The resulting cocktail is a pinkish color and has a standout citrus flavor with a sweet smoothness from the banana and a tropical flair from the coconut rum.

White rum is typically unaged. It is made from fermenting and then distilling sugarcane. It’s taste is typically light and slightly sweet with a little undertone of various spices.

Coconut rum is also made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane. It is typically slightly aged. Additionally, it has the addition of coconut flavor.

Different brands of coconut rum have slightly different flavor profiles and are made slightly differently. One of the most popular coconut rums is Malibu. Malibu actually is so sweet and has a lighter alcohol by volume that it is technically considered a liqueur.

There are wide variety of different banana liqueurs available. Some are clear while others are creamy. All of them are typically made from a base spirit and then infused or flavored with bananas and sugar.

As for the variety of juices that are used in this cocktail, it is best to use fresh not from concentrate when it all possible. Additionally, it’s best to use 100% primary juice and not a cranberry cocktail. And, it’s best to use pulp free orange juice.

When to Make This Drink:

With the sweet tropical fruity flavors in this cocktail, it is most appropriate at a variety of occasions such as:

• brunch
• pool party
• afternoon sipping
• spring and summer get togethers

Variations:

This cocktail is not an IBA standard cocktail which means that some recipes call for either different ingredients or different amounts of ingredients. If you ways you can mix this one up are:

• Add grenadine. Some recipes call for no cranberry juice in addition of grenadine or you can simply add the grenadine with the ingredients below.
• Lime juice. Some recipes call for adding lime juice. Typically in these recipes you do not add cranberry juice. The cranberry juice adds a tartness to balance out the sweet of the other ingredients and the lime juice does the same.
• Leave out a few juices. Some recipes call for using less different varieties of juices. For example, you could leave out passion fruit juice and simply add .5 oz of one of the other juices.

A few similar cocktails are the hurricane cocktail, the miami vice drink and the pink panther drink.

How to make this drink:

Despite the long list of them still have a totally easy to mix. If you’ve got 5 minutes you can get one ready to go. Basically, all you need to do is toss your ingredients in a glass and give it a stir.

Equipment:

• Hurricane glasses
• jigger
• cocktail shaker
• Hawthorne strainer
• bar spoon

Ingredients:

• 1 oz White rum
• 1 oz Coconut rum
• 1 oz Banana liqueur
• .5 oz Pineapple Juice
• .5 oz Orange Juice
• .5 oz Cranberry Juice
• .5 oz Passionfruit Juice
• Ice

Instructions:

Step one

To begin make sure you have everything you need for your drink including white rum, coconut rum, banana liqueur, passion fruit juice, pineapple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice, hurricane glass, jigger, cocktail shaker or bar spoon and ice.

Step two

Fill your hurricane glass up with ice.

Note: there are two ways to build this drink, straight in the glass or in a cocktail shaker. The step-by-step instructions below are in the glass.

If you want to build it in the shaker, also add ice to the shaker. Measure your ingredients into the shaker. Place the lid on the shaker and shake well. Then put the strainer on top and pour the drink into the glass.

Step three

Using your jigger measure out 1 oz of white rum. Pour your white rum into the glass.

Step four

Using a jigger measure out 1 oz of coconut rum. Pour your coconut rum into the glass.

Step Five

Using a jigger measure out 1 oz of banana liqueur. Pour your banana liqueur into the glass.

Step Six

Using a jigger measure out 0.5 oz of passion fruit juice. Pour the passion fruit juice into the glass.

Step Seven

Using a jigger measure out 0.5 oz of pineapple juice. For the pineapple juice into the glass.

Step Eight

Using a jigger measure out 0.5 oz of orange juice. Pour the orange juice into the glass.

Step Nine

Using a jigger measure out 0.5 oz of cranberry juice. Pour the cranberry juice into the glass.

Step Ten

There are two options for mixing this drink up at this point. Either method works well.

First option is to toss the drink from the glass into the shaker and then from the shaker back into the glass.

The second option is to use a bar spoon. Simply stick the spoon into the glass and stir it well.

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