Calico‘s Crew The Ships Cook Secret Recipe (smooth Coconut)

Calico's Crew The Ships Cook Secret Recipe (smooth Coconut) is a coconut-flavoured rum under the pirate-themed Calico's Crew label, origin unstated. Coconut rum is a staple of beach cocktails and sits squarely on the sweet, flavoured side of the category, and this one keeps to that role, a flavoured pour built for mixing rather than a dry rum to sip and study.

The character is coconut all the way through, the fruit clear and sweet on both nose and palate alongside a broader tropical lift, though the sugar runs high and the alcohol comes through more firmly than the 39% strength would imply. There is little beyond the coconut and sweetness to unpack, which is true to the style. Taken honestly, this is a sweet coconut rum at its best in a piña colada or a tropical long drink, where the fruit and sugar settle into a softer place among the other ingredients.