Until one day one of her pilgrims, Charles Tobias, owner of Pusser’s Rum, deconstructed the cocktail after trying to get the recipe from her for a couple of years. However, the cocktail was aptly coined “The Painkiller” because Daphne felt the strength of the cocktail would surely take away anyone’s pain they may be having, especially having just burned a number of calories swimming to shore.įor years, the Painkiller’s recipe lay secret to only her.
For years boaters journeyed to the small beach bar and would swim ashore to drink her Painkillers at almost a pilgrimage level, paying for cocktails with their water-soaked currency, which the bar was comically named after. The bartender and owner of the Soggy Dollar Bar, a now legendary small beach bar on Jost Van Dyke’s White Bay in the British Virgin Islands, Daphne had done just that. When Daphne Henderson first created the Painkiller in 1971, she likely had no idea she had created an iconic cocktail that would become forever immortalized in cocktail history. Mix all ingredients together in a shaker on ice and shake vigorously. Pour into a big glass, or goblet, filled with crushed ice. Grate fresh nutmeg on top and enjoy. However, it is the tropical drink’s ease of preparation (shaken not blended) and the combination of a high congener rum with fruit juices that keeps aficionados loyal, and new fans enthralled with every first sip. In fact, the drink is a very savory cocktail.īeloved by many, both locals and tourists of the British Virgin Islands, the drink made its way to the global stage and on menus all over the world, thanks in part to being trademarked by Pusser’s Rum. Not to be fooled by the name the Painkiller is anything but what the name might suggest, a numbing drug that removes physical pain from the body. If there was a royal drink of the Caribbean it most certainly would be the Painkiller.
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