Trademarked cocktails make me want to go out of my way to make them without the ingredient owned by the trademark holders. You'll never see goslings in my dark n storms. You'll never see a painkiller made by me by the books either.
The Trademarks are all pretty dubious too. There’s actually a case that the Dark and Stormy trademark doesn’t even apply to the cocktail and is thus unenforceable in the context they try to use it.
Anders, just stumbled upon your channel last week when I fell into a Mai tai kick and you keep dropping all kinds of the other wonderful island/summer drinks as well, and I really appreciate that! That is all, carry on!
Curious, what rums do you prefer in your mai tais? I haven't had a chance yet to try one, still gotta get the modifiers, but I picked up a bottle of denizen merchant reserve to try with it. To my palate that rum has grassy notes and a banana and sugar note that stretch for days.
Drinking this at the Soggy Dollar totally turned me on to Tiki-type drinks. I went for a brutal run up and down the super steep roads there then just started crushing these! It was paradise and I was hooked!
Painkiller is my favorite cocktail. I actually really enjoy the flavor profile of Pusser's and this mix just takes it to a whole new level. Great drink.
I have been hoping you would do this one for awhile now. This is my wife’s favorite drink. About a year ago I couldn’t find Pusser’s rum anywhere for months and I had no idea what to replace it with. After several tries we finally landed on Pyrat rum being her next favorite. Can’t wait to get home and make this version for her.
We make nilla killas ( Sapphire beach bar st thomas version ) We learned the recipe on our honeymoon pretty much same except sub. Blue Chair Bay vanilla rum for the dark rums . Awesome video !
I usually make my PKs with Plantation 5 year and it's probably my favorite cocktail; I'll definitely have to try this combination! Occasionally I like to add an ounce of amaretto as well since I enjoy how that sweet almond flavor plays with the other ingredients, but that might just be craziness on my part.
I like How to Drink, but he takes too long to get to the point...and Anders is by far the better bartender. But the how To Drink guy is super chill and has good content.
Anders, this is one of the best Painkiller recipes around! Thank you! I've been enjoying them (probably too much) I've found it is also delicious with 0.5-0.75oz of mezcal, Tonka bean garnish rather than nutmeg, and a mezcal spritz to garnish. Maybe I'm a philistine for enjoying the extra smokey layers but regardless, thanks for all your work.
Made this into a punch, using some acid adjusted pineapple juice and it was a HIT! 20 oz rum 15 oz pineapple juice ("regular") 15 oz acid adjusted pineapple juice 10 oz coconut cream 10 oz orange juice Throw in a blender (I have a Vitawmix, 2 litres capacity) on low-med to mix the coconut cream well. Pour over crushed ice. Throw in your garnish, a straw... That's it! Thank you Anders for the inspiration, I really do like your channel and content. Cheers!
Literally came home an hour ago from my first bar supply run to be able to make some of your cocktails. And now you post a new recipe that I now have all the ingredients for … amazing!
@hockey_hungry mai tai is a good place to start of you haven't already. Just demerara simple, lime juice, orgeat, dry curacao and rum. If you go with denizen merchant reserve, you only need the one bottle.
For me the thing about Smith & Cross is not the overripe banana funk but the grapefruit rind bitterness. I don't care for it on it's own but since I've come to like the Jungle Bird with it's Campari bitterness, I can see how S&C could work in a sweet fruity cocktail. I don't like it in my mai tai. I use Appleton 12 and Pusser's Gunpowder Proof for that.
Wow, I’m on vacation at a cottage in the kawarthas with my bar kit and allllll the ingredients. I planned on making this tomorrow and here we are. What timing. Thanks Anders!
One of my favorites for sure! I have not made this with two rums yet, so I'll definitely go that route this time. Also, Smith & Cross is my go-to sipping rum since it has so much character, and a proper sipper ABV to boot! Since I am far too lazy to break down pineapple all the time, I find Dole juice works just fine. But I do indeed grate the nutmeg. :) Thanks for bring this one back into the spotlight, Anders! I just so happen to have some coconut milk and a metric ton of sugar on hand for the syrup.
I started my channel with the painkiller and did not use Pussers! Well, I got a called out from the start. i just fixed it an my anniversary special! My favorite cocktail, no matter what you make it with. Mahalo for the fun video! Cheers!
I made one of these last night and used the Pussers rum. It was ok. I still like the Liber & Co pina colada recipe found on their toasted coconut syrup bottle. That is a great recipe!
Started follow your channel a couple of months ago and soon found out that there is so much moore than Rom & Coke out there. Now I have a stacked bar, quite a few bar-tools and I have tasted far moore different kind cocktails than the first 46 years of my life. Thank you for the inspiration and keep the episodes comming.
I think you and az are my fave bartender channel. You present the information in the best way. The history.. insight into the cocktails and the humor keep me watching! Definitely make az show her opinions! She's great!
This is awesome, even before I watched the video! We are celebrating midsummer here in Sweden and I thought that the perfect Summer drink for me would be "NOT" a painkiller. So, long story short, I am drunk from a lot of "NOT" a painkiller!
I love making Painkillers in summer. I'll be throwing a party on the 4th of July...pure coincidence tbh, and I'll definitely make half a dozen in preparation for that. Thanks for the video and I wish you a relaxing weekend!
Awesome video all around! This is one of my favourite drinks and I’m totally making this today! The best part that I literally laughed out loud… “I love rum! There I said it!”. I too love rum and you are not alone Anders! LOL!!!
I, too, make a drink exactly like a Painkiller but without Pusser's Rum. Also, I have a hack for drinks that call for navy strength rum when I don't have that. If you take one-half 151 rum and one-half 80 proof rum, the result will be 115.5 proof, which qualifies as navy strength.
Anders I have been dying for a painkiller....lol. I'm still going to live vicariously through you and have this drink virtually. 😂🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹. That is, until I can get into a bar somewhere here tomorrow, possibly one called Bourbon, and demand one....😂
Thanks for this one Anders. I made one with Smith and Cross, El Dorado 12-year. Exquisite. I'll want one every evening, but I know better. I don't want to get tired of it.
Recently discovered both your channel and the "not a painkiller". I didn't have nutmeg around when I was making it at home and threw a couple dashes of Ango on there, and it's great.
Soggy dollar bar made me fall in love with this drink. And the beach is absolutely beautiful. Also of note another famous bar on the same beach called One Love had a very tasty frozen Bushwacker.
I've been enjoying your tropical drinks lately on your channel, making me miss the hawaiian sunburn at the cheeseburger in paradise on Waikiki Beach from my last vacation
Hi, Anders and Az! Thank you so much for posting this recipe. I’ve loved the Painkiller since the first time I ever had it at Flask & Cannon in Jacksonville Beach. They go through a lot of Pusser’s there! I just made your recipe for the first time and it’s divine! I also made your Painkiller-based mocktail for my mom the other night, who doesn’t drink. She wolfed down two of them, while my dad and I had a Vieux Carré and a Creole (gettin’ ready for Mardi Gras). Thanks again!
I love the painkiller but now I realize I didn't because it wasn't made with Pusser's rum! But I really do want to continue trying the painkiller and yet I don't think I have access to Pusser's rum! I love the Eldorado rum and Smith and Cross, yet it's another one we have huge trouble accessing - so frustrating. Time for a trip across the border to get some Pusser's rum and maybe I will find it more easily. Usually I dislike orange juice in any kind of cocktail but I do love this cocktail and the orange juice works beautifully! The dusting with nutmeg is so lovely! Cheers Anders! Oh - fabulous to see that you have a video dedicated to rum for this week - off to watch it!
Smith and Cross is my favourite rum. I spent some time researching how to find the best navy style Jamaican rum and the results came to Smith and Cross. The company is also from Deptford and I lived just up the road from there for a long time. A fabulous rum and everyone should try it
This is my go to painkiller riff and one of my favorite drinks. I have a handfull of painkiller variants I keep in rotation. Christmas in July 1 oz Dr Bird (something blended that brings funk + nose, S+C works here also as well as a bunch of much more expensive choices) 1 oz Plantation XO (anything smooth that will "get out of the way" and bring roundness to the rum blend, the dosage in this actually works well so I recommend something dosed) 1 oz Diplomatico Reserva (This one really brings out the spice) 2 oz pineapple juice 1 oz cream of coconut .5 all spice dram flash blend and dirty pour with pebble ice, top with crushed ice garnish with pineapple fronds and grated nutmeg If keeping the citrus, I find clementine juice works quite well in a painkiller but I generally do .75 vs 1 oz.
Just found out about this drink last week and made a batch over the weekend. I did use the Pusser's rum and fresh nutmeg. Searched for a video of you making one, but couldn't find it. Thanks for posting this today!
I've been to the Soggy Dollar on several occasions and the Painkiller is amazing. You should do the NIlla Killa. It's a riff with some extra vanilla flavor in it and it"s amazing!
The whole story about why painkiller became pkny is pretty spot on. Many moons ago when I worked at the main bar of the owners they where pretty successful with the place and the painkillers was the bestseller. They changed it to avoid the lawsuit because an invester got wind of the trademarked name and the operators wanted to keep going as long as Pusser's alowed them. The investor put it to a vetoand went whith pkny. Bar remaind really profitable from what I heard. The main thing was that the maintenance was expensive and some key people left the bar in order to work at other bar(s) + the audience at the Lower east side where way different than the ones at the main bar.........
The Painkiller is the best argument against copyrighted cocktails. People claim that a copyright protects the intellectual property of the bartender, but the Painkiller copyright was claimed by someone who stole the recipe and then used it to promote their own rum. Pusser's rum gets famous while there isn't even a photograph of the Painkiller's actual creator, Daphne Henderson, anywhere online.
I'm with you on the Smith & Cross, Anders. Bring on da funk! Just curious: have you tried acid-adjusted pineapple juice in this or other tiki cocktails? It's a subtle but significant improvement, in my opinion.
I recently saw a tiki tock video of a painkiller be made at the soggy dollar bar and they don't use pussers they used soggy dollar dark rum. PS I have always used S&C in my painkillers but will have to give that split base a try. Love the videos keep up the good work.
I didn't realize that cocktails were trademarked. Does this apply to whether or not you can sell them by that name? Are there cocktail police that show up and give bartenders citations? I'm not a professional bartender, (my knees wouldn't hold up), but I just use the rum I have on hand. In this case I will use Hamilton demerara and Appleton Jamaican. I should draw the shades though I suppose... just in case they're watching me.
The name of a cocktail can be trademarked, not the recipe. You can make the cocktail all you want. You can use different rums. You're just not supposed to call it by the trademarked name. It's like making a lemon-lime soda, and not being allowed to call it "Sprite™"
Introduced to the Painkiller back around 1995 at the Pusser's Rum restaurant on St. John, USVI. I barely recall them making them in varying alcohol levels. Been chasing that dragon ever since.
How would you make a rum punch? Had so many variations in Barbados and loved them! I’ve been using mount gay rum, lime, simple syrup, and angostura bitters
I just got a bartender/mixologist job at a high end bar in my city even though I’ve never been a bartender before, only home bar, but All I learned thru the years is because of you, the educated barfly, Steve and the other RU-vid channels, I didn’t need to go to bartender school, I learned from the best!! The cocktail director at the bar saw my instagram page and was impressed, I’m starting tomorrow! If you could give me advice on something what would it be?
I love rum too. I also have a cup or several cups from the soggy dollar with the recipe printed on it. I have a photo with myself and Jerry. On the shelf there are several bottles of the Soggy Dollar dark rum. But they use Old Nick Dark Rum I can't get that here so I've used Captain Morgan Black Rum and Cruzan Blackstrap. Both very heavenly molasses and vanilla flavor.
Great episode. Painkiller is a house favourite here. I just prefer the drink in a double old fashioned on the rocks. Also, thanks for coming out on the rum loving. Have pride; We're with you.
I have to give you credit. For almost 20 years I have been rum averse. I have regularly kept a semi-stocked home bar for making cocktails, but I almost never had a bottle of rum on hand (Which is kinda weird because I truly appreciate booze history and culture, and rum has tons of it). I think I just had one too many rum and cokes in my late-teens... But since I have been binge watching your channel I have ended up with at least four different bottles of rum on my bar, but they've been going quickly because I have only recently discovered just how good a well-made Mai Tai can be!
~~Head in hand~~ I don't even drink alcohol...none, nothing, ever...and not only did I watch this great video but it made me want to try a "kainpiller".
Funny enough Anders, I was literally thinking about the Painkiller 💊 I usually add a tiny drop of spiced Tiki Fire rum in my Painkiller blend. Happy Friday bro
Why no Pussers rum?! I love it! Was drinking those in the British Virgin island and Jos vandyke was the best island! Had a blast in the BVI and got shitty on those pain killers. Cheers!
I used to work for Pusser’s. I made lots of Pusser’s Painkillers (tm). Hey, Chuck, if you are still out there, hi! The Chuck Tobias story is so typical of him.
The painkiller was the first tiki cocktail I fell in love with and that started me down the path of tiki, which I've explored extensively since then. Still one of my most favorite tiki cocktails.
