![]() The fact that Tobias had gone to The Admiralty Board of the Royal Navy and gained permission to commercialize the rum in 1979 made him curious about this deliciously concocted recipe made with Pusser’s Rum.ĭaphne Henderson and Charles Tobias became good friends, but in spite of their close friendship, and no matter how he tried, she refused to divulge her secret recipe for the cocktail. Boaters, including Pusser’s founder, Charles Tobias, came from distant places to sample her version of the Painkiller for which she’d become locally famous. It was owned by an English lady, Daphne Henderson. Of course, your dollars get wet, hence the name “Soggy Dollar Bar.” There’s no dock, so the usual way in is to swim. The following excerpt is from the Pusser’s Website:Ī version of the classic Pusser’s Painkiller® had its start at the six-seat Soggy Dollar Bar on a long stretch of white sand beach at White Bay on the island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. Legend has it that the first version of a Painkiller was served at, you guessed it, the SOGGY DOLLAR BAR in the 1970’s. Did you know that this infamous rum cocktail is actually TRADEMARKED by Pusser’s Rum? I did not and neither did a NYC bar of the same name that received a lawsuit from the small rum distiller in 2011 which forced the new tiki style cocktail lounge to close its doors! Google that. ![]() But we are going to start there today for all of the newcomers in the group that maybe need a little coaching □įirst, a little history lesson on the Painkiller. I’m sure MANY of you have already perfected your “at home” Soggy Dollar Painkiller recipe for those chilly winter nights when you’re longing to be in the Virgin Islands and you need a “taste” of that familiarity. PLEASE, let me know your favorites in the comments and I will try to pry the trade secrets from the hands of the bar staffers of St. I’m going to start with the obvious, but will move through the list of what I consider to be some of the best cocktail concoctions on St. And, I feel like this info will be rather useful for all of you at home with a Caribbean thirst to be quenched! So, I’m going start a little cocktail series here and see how it goes. John.īut the one question I DID know the answer to rather quickly was “How do I make this drink at home?” It was my first area of expertise on St. ![]() Thus began my love affair with seeking out the history and “news” of St. So, I would go home and google, I would ask questions of the long time residents I was privliged to be working with….always looking for the answers. Being a newcomer to the island, I would get hit with MANY questions I did not know the answer to. A lot of times, my content on the site comes from those stories that I used to tell over and over again. I was thinking about things that my guests would always ask me while working behind the bar. When the glass was half full of rum, she gave me the nod. I remember my first training shift at Asolare…I was pouring a drink and my cocktail goddess of a mentor, Kim Holland, told me to just keep pouring the rum when I paused at the “stateside normal” 1 1/4 ounce pour. Island cocktails were my first knowledge tree to climb when I moved to St. I worked at Asolare, Motu>Drink, The Terrace, Spyglass, The Bowery, Zozo’s at the Sugarmill and moonlighted on occasion at Castaways>Dog House Pub, Sushi St. Many of you may not know this about me, but I was a bar tender on St. So, I thought we might start helping you build your at home Caribbean cocktail recipe collection…Starting with the infamous Soggy Dollar Painkiller! But, let’s face it, we can’t always run to the closest beach bar whenever we get a hankering for a favorite island treat. You disembark the ferry and head where? Most likely your answer is happy hour! Why? Because you have been dreaming of your favorite island concoction since you last left and you can’t wait to get another one in your hand while you watch the sunset.
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