coconut

Turn Your Highball Tropical

The perfect combination of sweet and salty, coconut water has become a go-to summer sidekick.

• story: Punch Staff
• photo: Lizzie Munro

Vintage Coco

A citrusy spin on the classic Caribbean combination of Scotch and coconut water.

Coquito

In Puerto Rico, the Christmas tradition comes in the form of this eggnog-like rum and coconut milk punch—a symbol of the country’s complex colonial past and present.

Adam Bernbach’s Piña Colada

Adam Bernbach has a particular affection for Piña Coladas, and serves them year round in his basement-level bar using fresh pineapple, unsweetened coconut and aged rum.

Maison Premiere’s Absinthe Colada

An absinthe-spiked take on the classic.

Piña Colada

Based off a Cuban recipe for a non-alcoholic pineapple slushy (a piña fria) popular in the early 1900s, this frozen beverage evolved to add coconut cream and rum.