Saoco cocktail

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Saoco Cocktail

  • Medium
  • nutty
  • tropical

A nutty, medium-strength cocktail, shaken over ice, served in a collins glass.

Serve in: collins glass

Ingredients

  • 2 ozwhite rum
  • 4 ozcoconut water
  • fresh mintoptional
  • iceoptional

How to Make a Saoco

Instructions

  1. Combine both ingredients in a cocktail shaker.
  2. Add ice and shake vigorously.
  3. Strain the contents into a collins glass that has been half-filled with finely crushed ice.

Garnish

Decorate with fresh mint.

The glass

Serve this one in a collins glass. A collins glass is a glass tumbler which typically is used to serve mixed drinks, especially Tom Collins or John Collins cocktails. It is cylindrical in shape and narrower and taller than a highball glass.

Did you know

Cuban farmers, the humble “guajiros” or “campesinos” of the countryside, have been mixing rum with ingredients provided by the land for hundreds of years. The Saoco is one such drink.