# Aku Aku

Fresh pineapple and mint are flash-blended with lightly aged rum, peach liqueur, lime, and demerara before being fine-strained into an unusually vivid up drink.

Strength: 20% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 45 ml [Blended aged rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/blended-aged-rum.md) — Use a lightly aged blended rum.
- 15 ml [Peach liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/peach-liqueur.md) — Use a natural crème de pêche rather than peach schnapps.
- 30 ml [Fresh lime juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lime-juice.md)
- 15 ml [Demerara syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/demerara-syrup.md) — Use a scant 15 ml of rich two-to-one demerara syrup.
- 5 pieces [Pineapple](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/pineapple.md) — Use fresh 2.5 cm chunks.
- 8 leaves [Mint](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/mint.md)

## Glassware

Coupe glass

## Garnish

- Mint sprig — Clap the mint gently before placing it in the drink.

## Method

1. Muddle only the pineapple chunks in a spindle-blender tin; do not muddle the mint.
2. Add the remaining ingredients, 360 ml crushed ice, and the mint, then flash-blend for 10 seconds.
3. Double-strain through a fine strainer into a chilled coupe.

## Related drinks

- [Hotel Nacional](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hotel-nacional.md): An elegant Cuban rum sour whose restrained pineapple, apricot, and lime suggest the tropics without sacrificing the spirit beneath them.
- [Mai Tai](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mai-tai.md): A landmark tropical sour balancing aged rum with lime, orange curaçao, almond, and demerara.
- [La Guildive](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/la-guildive.md): Martin Cate’s up rum mule folds peach, vanilla-rich Licor 43, fresh lime, and cinnamon through a small, lively charge of ginger beer.
- [Demerara Dry Float](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/demerara-dry-float.md): Lime, passion fruit, maraschino, and aged rum make an unusually tart tropical drink whose overproof black-rum sidecar lets the drinker choose the danger.
- [Missionary’s Downfall](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/missionarys-downfall.md): Donn Beach's pale-green frozen classic, fragrant with fresh pineapple, mint, peach, honey, and lime over a light rum base.
- [Queen’s Park Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-swizzle.md): A high-octane Trinidadian swizzle that drives dark Demerara rum through fragrant mint, lime, sugar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Three Dots and a Dash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/three-dots-and-a-dash.md): Donn Beach's wartime victory drink, joining aged agricole and blended rum with honeyed citrus and a precise current of island spice.
- [Knickerbocker](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/knickerbocker.md): A nineteenth-century rum punch balances aged rum, orange curaçao, raspberry, and lime over fine ice.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/aku-aku
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/aku-aku-b2d34e01.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.liquidthoughts.de/en/cocktails/aku-aku