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Rum

Blue Hawaii

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Hurricane

Harry Yee's electric-blue hotel-bar postcard from 1957 Honolulu, curaçao, rum, vodka, and pineapple.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lemon juice (0.5 oz)
  • fresh pineapple juice (4 oz)
  • simple syrup (0.5 oz)
  • Bols blue curaçao (0.5 oz)
  • light Puerto Rican rum (0.75 oz)
  • vodka (0.75 oz)
  • ice (1 cup)
  • pineapple wedge (1)
  • vanda orchid (1)

Instructions

  1. In a shaker combine fresh lemon juice, fresh pineapple juice, simple syrup, Bols blue curaçao, light Puerto Rican rum, and vodka with ice.
  2. Shake gently to combine.
  3. Pour into a tall hurricane glass filled with fresh ice.
  4. Garnish with a pineapple wedge and a vanda orchid.

Sources

  1. "Creating the Blue Hawaii." Hilton Stories. https://stories.hilton.com/hilton-history/creating-the-blue-hawaii (accessed 2026-05-03), venue-of-origin account: Yee created the Blue Hawaii at the Hawaiian Village Hotel in 1957. ↩
  2. "Harry Yee." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Yee (accessed 2026-05-03), corroborates Yee's authorship of the Blue Hawaii at Henry Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Hotel (head bartender from 1952); also documents the Bols sales rep's request for a blue-curaçao drink as the origin story (this specific detail is in the Wikipedia article rather than in the Hilton Stories source). ↩