# Piña Verde

Erick Castro's modern classic turns Green Chartreuse into a tropical base spirit, vivid against creamy coconut, pineapple, and lime.

Strength: 19% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 45 ml [Green Chartreuse](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/green-chartreuse.md)
- 45 ml [Fresh pineapple juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-pineapple-juice.md) — An equal blend of unsweetened canned and fresh juice works especially well.
- 22.5 ml [Cream of coconut](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/coconut-cream.md)
- 15 ml [Fresh lime juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lime-juice.md)

## Glassware

Pearl Diver glass

## Garnish

- Pineapple leaf — Use two or three fresh pineapple fronds.

## Method

1. Add all the ingredients to a shaker with a small amount of pebble ice.
2. Whip-shake for ten seconds.
3. Strain into a chilled Pearl Diver glass and top with more pebble ice.

## Related drinks

- [Chartreuse Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chartreuse-swizzle.md): A vivid herbal swizzle balancing Green Chartreuse with pineapple, falernum, and lime.
- [Angostura Colada](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/angostura-colada.md): Zac Overman's audacious colada makes aromatic bitters the base, rounded by coconut and pineapple and sharpened with lime and overproof Jamaican rum.
- [Brancolada](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brancolada.md): Jeremy Oertel’s frozen colada makes minty Brancamenta a full partner to Jamaican rum, pineapple, orange, and rich coconut.
- [Love & Murder](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/love-and-murder.md): Equal Campari, green alpine liqueur, and lime form an audacious bitter sour, with syrup and four saline drops making the apparent collision cohere.
- [Singapore Sling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/singapore-sling.md): The modern Raffles branch folds gin, cherry, orange, Bénédictine, bitters, and grenadine through fresh pineapple and lime into a long, foaming tropical classic.
- [Last Word](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/last-word.md): An equal-parts gin sour combining herbal green Chartreuse and maraschino with sharp lime.
- [Painkiller](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/painkiller.md): A rich tropical drink of aged rum, pineapple, orange, and coconut beneath fragrant nutmeg.
- [Industry Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/industry-sour.md): Ted Kilgore's equal-parts modern classic turns Fernet-Branca and Green Chartreuse into a bracing, improbably balanced herbal sour.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pina-verde
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/pina-verde-f2f8ac1f.webp
- Recipe source: https://vinepair.com/cocktail-college/pina-verde/