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How to Make Wild Greg’s Best Homemade Piña Colada

January 14, 2015 by Laura Blodgett 5 Comments

We will get to adding the rum to the piña colada later.
We will get to adding the rum to the piña colada later.

 

Wild Greg makes almost all of my drinks. That is because I am very picky and no one else knows how to do it right. He also frequently tastes my drinks in restaurants before I try them. A piña colada is one of my favorites. For me, he makes it with the barest amount of rum. I like rum a lot, but I don’t like it very concentrated. If there is a drink category that I have learned to like in my two or so years of learning to appreciate some alcohol at the tender age of 53, it is the category of drinks made with rum. Finding out I like rum is funny to me, because I previously only knew of it from stories of pirates! Anyone know why rum is associated with pirates when it has such a sophisticated taste? Oh, well. Can’t let the pirates have all the fun.

 

 

Here is how Wild Greg makes my piña colada:

 

A few of the piña colada ingredients standing ready.
A few of the piña colada ingredients standing ready.

List of ingredients:

¼ cup cream of coconut, which we find as Coco Re’al made by Simply Squeeze

½ cup of coconut rum

~ 3 tablespoons of frozen pineapple juice concentrate

1 small can of pineapple juice, 6 ounces, NOT concentrate

¼ cup granulated (white) sugar

~ 1 can of club soda

¾ to 1 cup of milk

one normal size tray of ice

 

This is about ⅔  of the ice Wild Greg put in blender.
This is about ⅔ of the ice Wild Greg put in blender.

 

 

 

First of all, make sure that you have shaken your cream of coconut well. For our last bottle of this, he had to even stick a table knife down into it to get it going. It was just too solidified. Then, he started by putting some of the ice, the pineapple juice concentrate, the small can of pineapple juice, and the sugar in our Kitchen Aide blender, which crushes ice very nicely. He added more ice cubes later, because being someone who usually improvises in the kitchen, he decided he needed more. In the end, it came to very close to a full ice cube tray of cubes.

 

 

 

This is how Wild Greg measures out the pineapple juice concentrate. That is really how he measures anything, whether it be in the kitchen or while mixing cement in his workshop.
This is how Wild Greg measures out the pineapple juice concentrate. That is really how he measures anything, whether it be in the kitchen or while mixing cement in his workshop.

 

 

After the ice was sufficiently chopped, he put in the other all of the other ingredients and ran the blender on the puree setting briefly, so that it was like a coconut pineapple rum smoothie. Or, in other words, a piña colada.

 

 

 

 

 

I always get the first piña colada.
I always get the first piña colada.

 

 

 

I really should try to make some popsicles out of any leftovers. Except we never have any, because there always seem to be other people who show up to enjoy his drinks, too. He does add more rum, probably another ½ cup to the mix left in the blender, after he has served mine. That seems to be how everyone else likes their piña coladas! However, now that he has shown me his secrets, I can make one when no one is looking. As long as I can shake the cream of coconut.

Shaking was not doing the job, so he resorting to stirring the  cream of coconut.
Shaking was not doing the job, so he resorting to stirring the cream of coconut.

 

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