Pineapple Fizz
Shake ∙ 3 min ∙ 10.1% ABV ∙
A Pineapple Fizz is a rum fizz built from light gold rum, pineapple juice, lime, and sugar syrup, shaken and topped with soda water. The fizz arrives frothy and bright, tart lime cutting through a silky sweetness, finishing crisp and effervescent with a clean, warming backbone underneath.
Ingredients
1
Servings
Garnish
Instructions for 1 serving
- Pre-chill a glass
- Shake the first 4 ingredients with ice: Light gold rum 50 mlPineapple juice 30 mlLime juice 20 mlSugar syrup 15 ml
- Strain into the ice-filled glass while also pouring Soda water 50 ml
- Garnish with a pineapple wedge or a lime wedge on the rim
Tips
- Pour the soda water at the same time as straining into the glass to keep as much carbonation as possible.
- Pre-chill the Collins glass so the soda doesn't go flat against a warm surface before serving.
- Use fresh lime juice rather than bottled — it keeps the tartness bright against the sweeter pineapple and syrup.
History
The Pineapple Fizz belongs to the Fizz family of drinks, a spirit-citrus-sugar sour lengthened with soda water and served without ice, a style first codified in Jerry Thomas's Bar-tender's Guide in 1876. Fizzes became a fixture of American bar culture in the following decades, typically served as morning pick-me-ups, and spawned many spirit and flavor variations, including gin, silver, golden, and rum-based versions.
The Pineapple Fizz itself is far less documented than the wider Fizz category; its earliest known appearance in print is in the Savoy Cocktail Book, published in London in 1930, which set down a rum-and-pineapple-juice take on the classic Fizz template. Unlike the Gin Fizz or the Ramos Gin Fizz, it never became a fixture of later bar manuals and has remained a minor, occasional entry in the Fizz family rather than a widely chronicled drink in its own right.
FAQ
How do you make a Pineapple Fizz?
Shake light gold rum, pineapple juice, fresh lime juice, and sugar syrup hard with ice, then strain into an ice-filled Collins glass while pouring in soda water to top it up. Finish with a pineapple wedge or lime wedge on the rim. The shake builds the drink's body and slight froth, while the soda is added last to keep its fizz.
What is a Pineapple Fizz?
A Pineapple Fizz is a light gold rum fizz shaken with pineapple juice for fruitiness, then topped with soda water and served long over ice in a Collins glass, coming in at about 10% ABV.
What is in a Pineapple Fizz?
Light gold rum, pineapple juice, fresh lime juice, sugar syrup, and soda water, built as a fizz over ice in a Collins glass. It is garnished with a pineapple wedge or a lime wedge on the rim.
What makes a fizz cocktail a fizz?
A fizz is a cocktail built from a base spirit, citrus juice, and a sweetener, shaken and then topped with soda water for carbonation. The soda is what gives the drink its name and its characteristic light, effervescent finish, as it does in a Pineapple Fizz.
What is the difference between a fizz and a spritz?
A fizz is shaken with spirit, citrus, and sweetener before soda water is added, giving it a fuller body and light foam, as with a Pineapple Fizz. A spritz is simply built and stirred in the glass from wine or a liqueur topped with sparkling wine and soda, without any shaking step.
