Bushwacker (cocktail) Bushwacker (cocktail) The Bushwacker is a cocktail invented in 1975 at a bar called The Ship's Store/Sapphire Pub in Sapphire Village, Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was later enhanced and gained much notoriety at the Sandshaker Lounge in Pensacola Beach, Florida. Reference to the Virgin Island origins of the drink can be found on the Sandshaker's website. It is similar to a creamy, chocolate piña colada. The original recipe called for Vodka, Kahlua, Dark Crème de Cacao, Coco Lopez (cream of coconut), a splash of Triple sec and milk that's spun in a blender with ice and
Cocktail umbrella it’s because the bar already stocked the umbrellas as toothpicks or decoration, so they were more readily available. Another theory exists that Beach met Yee while vacationing in Hawaii after World War II. It is there that Beach and Yee traded cocktail ideas, recipes, and somewhere along the line, cocktail umbrellas. Afterwards, both of the bartenders began to use the umbrellas in tropical drinks. Cocktail umbrellas are a Great Depression-era invention, but they didn't take off in popularity until after World War II. According to an Eater article published in 2015, many people, during the difficult times faced during the