Cocktails with Pineapple juice
Pineapple juice is the sweet-tart juice pressed from ripe pineapple flesh, used fresh or from carton in tiki and tropical cocktails.
How it's used
It is both sweet and tart, so a tiki recipe can use a lot of it and still need lime. Shaken hard, it throws a head without any egg white, so a Piña Colada or a Painkiller gets its texture from the juice itself. It also hides the burn of an overproof rum better than almost anything.
Substitutes for Pineapple juice
Fresh, carton or canned juice all swap one for one, and all foam when shaken.
Carton or canned pineapple juice
In drinks with cream, packaged is safer: fresh juice can curdle it.
Pineapple purée
Thin it with water to juice consistency, then use the same amount.
Canned pineapple
In a pinch, blend it and strain. If it was packed in syrup, any sugar can come down.
Mango or passion fruit nectar
In the same amount, keeps the drink tropical but makes a different one, so taste as you go.
Storage
Fresh juice separates within the hour, so stir the jug before every pour, and it ferments within a day or two even refrigerated. A carton keeps to its date and belongs in the fridge once open, where it also loses its foam within a few days.
