Time to revisit the Coconaut which is a very nice Tiki drink. I wrote about it long ago and now its the 13th drink from Grog Log i stumble over. It contains only three ingredients – rum, lime and cream of coconut  (not coconut cream which is a different thing)
I like the coconut in all forms and yet i only use it occasionally, and i have tried without any success to figure out why since i really like it. Maybe some day i`ll find out.
So its rum, lime and coconut – a classic combination and such a simple drink really and very easy to play with – so let the fun begin!
COCONAUT
8 oz Lopez Cream of Coconut
2 oz fresh lime juice
7 oz dark Jamaican rum (I broke down the recipe and used 1 oz Smith & Cross and 1 oz Pusser´s overproof)
Put everything into a blender and fill up with ice cubes and blend until slushy. This serves 2-4.
In Grog Log there´s also a flaming version called Coconaut Re-Entry using a flaming lime shell. You remove the pulp from the half lime shell and partly fill with overproof rum and ignite it. I´m gonna do that but with my own twist of this drink. I`m not gonna leave this drink now just when the fun has begun!
FLAMING DEMERARA COCONAUT
2 oz Cream of Coconut
0.5 oz fresh lime
1 oz Demerara rum
1 oz Lemon Hart 151
1/4 oz Kahlua Coffee Cream or other coffee liqueur
Proceed as with the Coconaut and set alight with some overproof rum in a lime shell.
Tasty, tasty, tasty! the Kahlua coffee cream added yummyness that goes very well with demerara rum.
Finally, the 2nd twist, let´s add some smoke now and see how that will taste. With smoke i mean mezcal and i`m gonna use my favorite, the crema – made for women and a few strong men! (that´s what it says on the label) such a true thing!
And i love crema de mezcal, it´s so smooth, lightly smokey, creamy and mixes wonderfully.
SMOKY COCONAUT
A silly name i know.-) but that´s so appropriate in the Tiki world..
2 oz Cream of Coconut
1 oz Smith & Cross Jamaican rum
1 oz Del Maguey Crema de Mezcal
0.5 oz fresh lime
1/4 Kahlua Coffee cream (again, but yes – i insist)
0.5 oz sugarcane syrup (Petit Canne)
Oh wow! if the other two were tasty but actually quite similar, this was a entirely different beast. The mezcal added depth, smoke, complexity and well…a bit of mysticism actually even if it sounds ridiculous.
I guess mezcal has that kinda thing to it and crema de mezcal is so smooth and mixing that with a thing like Kahlua coffee cream and good rum, well you sure are in for a tasty treat.
The downside is that Kahlua coffee cream is probably not available anymore unless they have made it a regular, since it was a limited edition that was launched around x-mas 2009. I used it since i need to make more use of the bottle i have. But any good coffee liqueur could be used here.
Well, rum, coconut, lime, coffee, mezcal – this was really yummy and how can you possibly go wrong with these ingredients?
