Painkiller

About the Painkiller

Creamy, fruity, and smooth, the Painkiller blends Timber Creek Florida Rum with pineapple juice, orange juice, and cream of coconut for a rich, tropical cocktail that drinks more like dessert than a standard mixed drink. It’s built for slow sipping over crushed ice on a hot day. Cream of coconut is what sets this apart from a simple rum punch, its thick, sweet texture gives the drink real body, almost like a liquid piña colada without the blended ice. Pineapple and orange juice add brightness and acidity to keep that richness from becoming cloying, and the rum has to be substantial enough to still register underneath four ounces of juice and a full ounce of coconut cream.

Timber Creek’s Florida Rum, aged and blended through the distillery’s PureBlend process of individual grain distillation and component barreling, has enough depth and warmth to hold its own even in a heavily mixed drink like this one. To build it, shake all four ingredients together hard with ice, the cream of coconut needs real agitation to fully incorporate and avoid separating in the glass. Pour, unstrained, over crushed ice in a tall glass or hurricane glass. Finish with a generous dusting of fresh nutmeg across the top and a wedge or spear of pineapple for garnish.

Serve this alongside barbecue chicken or coconut shrimp, both play into the same sweet, rich, tropical territory as the cocktail itself, making for an easy, cohesive spread at a summer cookout or beach gathering. If cream of coconut seems too rich on its own, cutting it slightly with extra pineapple juice lightens the texture without losing the drink’s signature tropical richness. Freshly grated nutmeg, rather than pre-ground, adds a noticeably more aromatic finish and is worth the extra minute of effort for a drink built around bold, warm garnish flavors. Because this drink is rich and doesn’t taste particularly strong going down, which is exactly where its name comes from, it deserves real attention to pacing.

Please drink responsibly, and only if you are 21 or older.

Creamy, fruity, and smooth, the Painkiller blends Timber Creek Florida Rum with pineapple juice, orange juice, and cream of coconut for a rich, tropical cocktail that drinks more like dessert than a standard mixed drink. It’s built for slow sipping over crushed ice on a hot day. Cream of coconut is what sets this apart from a simple rum punch, its thick, sweet texture gives the drink real body, almost like a liquid piña colada without the blended ice. Pineapple and orange juice add brightness and acidity to keep that richness from becoming cloying, and the rum has to be substantial enough to still register underneath four ounces of juice and a full ounce of coconut cream.

Timber Creek’s Florida Rum, aged and blended through the distillery’s PureBlend process of individual grain distillation and component barreling, has enough depth and warmth to hold its own even in a heavily mixed drink like this one. To build it, shake all four ingredients together hard with ice, the cream of coconut needs real agitation to fully incorporate and avoid separating in the glass. Pour, unstrained, over crushed ice in a tall glass or hurricane glass. Finish with a generous dusting of fresh nutmeg across the top and a wedge or spear of pineapple for garnish.

Serve this alongside barbecue chicken or coconut shrimp, both play into the same sweet, rich, tropical territory as the cocktail itself, making for an easy, cohesive spread at a summer cookout or beach gathering. If cream of coconut seems too rich on its own, cutting it slightly with extra pineapple juice lightens the texture without losing the drink’s signature tropical richness. Freshly grated nutmeg, rather than pre-ground, adds a noticeably more aromatic finish and is worth the extra minute of effort for a drink built around bold, warm garnish flavors. Because this drink is rich and doesn’t taste particularly strong going down, which is exactly where its name comes from, it deserves real attention to pacing.

Please drink responsibly, and only if you are 21 or older.