You don’t usually find bourbon in tiki drinks—Polynesian-inspired cocktails tend to lean hard on rum. But in more creative corners of the mixology world, there’s room for America’s native spirit in the tropics, or at least Joseph Stinchcomb of Bar Muse in Oxford, Mississippi, thinks so.
Here, pineapple juice provides the pleasant punch of island flavor within a blend of Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and High Wire Distilling Southern Amaro. It drinks like Trader Vic brought the luau to Kentucky.
