Rum

Tortola

Name: Tortola
Yield: 1 servings

Glass: Tiki Mug

A rum-and-citrus tiki sipper named for the British Virgin Islands' largest island, in the Caribbean planter's-punch tradition.

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Ingredients

fresh lime juice (0.75 oz)
fresh grapefruit juice (0.75 oz)
falernum (0.5 oz)
aged Demerara rum (1 oz)
aged pot-still Jamaican rum (1 oz)
pineapple wedge (1)
mint sprig (1)

Sourcing for the Tortola is thin: it is cited in tiki-revival lists as a Beachbum Berry-published recipe in the lineage of Caribbean planter's-punch sours, but it does not appear in widely indexed cocktail databases.¹ The spec below is reconstructed from the Berry-style template (lime, grapefruit, falernum, two-rum split favoring aged Demerara and pot-still Jamaican) consistent with a drink named for Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.² Treat this as a defensible reconstruction rather than a primary-source-verified spec.

Brand recommendations. Best: Pusser's Gunpowder Proof (literally Tortola-made) or Hamilton 86 Demerara for the aged Demerara; Smith & Cross or Hamilton Pot Still Black for the Jamaican; John D. Taylor's Velvet Falernum or BG Reynolds falernum. Economical: Pusser's Original Admiralty for both rum slots as a single-bottle stand-in; commercial Velvet Falernum.

Instructions

In a shaker combine fresh lime juice, fresh grapefruit juice, falernum, aged Demerara rum, and aged pot-still Jamaican rum.
Shake hard with ice cubes and strain into a tiki mug or double rocks glass over fresh crushed ice.
Garnish with a pineapple wedge and a mint sprig.

Sources

Beachbum Berry, "Recipes." https://beachbumberry.com/recipes.html (accessed 2026-05-03), the canonical Berry web index; Tortola appears in tiki-revival reference lists as a Berry-attributed planter's-punch sour but does not have a confirmed published primary-source spec. ↩
Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum (2006), British Virgin Islands and planter's-punch chapters, frames the Caribbean planter's-punch tradition (citrus, sweetener, two-rum split) the Tortola sits inside; Pusser's Original Admiralty rum is literally Tortola-made, anchoring the Caribbean-roots framing. ↩