Shochu that goes with pineapple
Tropical fruit
Fresh juice, or grilled wedges for a smokier drink. The awamori fruit.
Ranked over every bottle in the catalogue, with the reason each one is here. The reasoning is the same engine that recommends a mixer from a bottle, run the other way round, so the two never contradict each other.
Best with it
- Nankai Gold Shochu
Kokuto (brown sugar) · Kagoshima (Amami Oshima)
Pineapple: Everything the tiki canon does with rum works here, and works better, because the drink does not end the evening.
- Amami Kokuto Shochu
Kokuto (brown sugar) · Kagoshima (Amami)
Pineapple: Everything the tiki canon does with rum works here, and works better, because the drink does not end the evening.
- Komasa Kurano Shikon Green Shochu
Imo (sweet potato) · Kagoshima
Pineapple: There is real sugar in this bottle already, and acid is what keeps it from reading as syrup.
- Lento Kokuto Shochu
Kokuto (brown sugar) · Kagoshima (Amami Oshima)
Pineapple: Everything the tiki canon does with rum works here, and works better, because the drink does not end the evening.
- Nankai White Oak Shochu
Kokuto (brown sugar) · Kagoshima (Amami Oshima)
Pineapple: Everything the tiki canon does with rum works here, and works better, because the drink does not end the evening.
- Kaikouzu Potato Shochu
Imo (sweet potato) · Kagoshima
Pineapple: An earthy, heavy spirit flattens out without acid. This is the ingredient doing structural work, not decoration.
- Chuko Ryukyu Awamori
Awamori · Okinawa (Naha)
Pineapple: Okinawa grows the pineapple, the passion fruit and the shikuwasa, and distils the spirit. The pairing is geography.
- Seifuku Vintage Awamori
Awamori · Okinawa (Ishigaki)
Pineapple: Okinawa grows the pineapple, the passion fruit and the shikuwasa, and distils the spirit. The pairing is geography.
- Zuisen Hiryu Awamori
Awamori · Okinawa (Naha)
Pineapple: Okinawa grows the pineapple, the passion fruit and the shikuwasa, and distils the spirit. The pairing is geography.
- Moriizou Ultra PR Shochu
Imo (sweet potato) · Kagoshima
Pineapple: There is real sugar in this bottle already, and acid is what keeps it from reading as syrup.
- Aka Kirishima Shochu
Imo (sweet potato) · Miyazaki
Pineapple: There is real sugar in this bottle already, and acid is what keeps it from reading as syrup.
- Nankai Kokuto Shochu
Kokuto (brown sugar)
Pineapple: Everything the tiki canon does with rum works here, and works better, because the drink does not end the evening.
- Nankai Shochu (Original)
Kokuto (brown sugar)
Pineapple: Everything the tiki canon does with rum works here, and works better, because the drink does not end the evening.
- Selephant
Kokuto (brown sugar) · Kagoshima
Pineapple: Everything the tiki canon does with rum works here, and works better, because the drink does not end the evening.