Now, we are talking about a frozen drink running you $11 to $13. A topper will usually add $3 to $5 to the price of your bushwacker. The floater or topper not only increases the alcohol content of your drink, but it also increases the price. If you want a peanut butter taste to your bushwacker, I recommend adding a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter to the blender.īut if you insist on trying a bushwacker with Skrewball, please be sure and say these two words to your bartender or server: “no floater” or “no topper.” The floater or topper is an ounce of over-proof rum poured on top of your bushwacker. This 151-proof alcohol (75% alcohol by volume) is not mixed into your drink but floats on the top. This makes your bushwacker incredibly strong and, unlike your normal bushwacker, the taste of alcohol is not as well disguised. It seems that sadistic bartenders and servers enjoy watching the end results of this deadly drink on unsuspecting, lightweight tourists. The latest trend along the Gulf Coast is to add Skrewball Whiskey to give the bushwacker a taste of peanut butter. Skrewball has an incredible peanut butter flavor. In fact, it is one of the few hard liquors I can drink “straight.” However, adding whiskey to a bushwacker is not a good idea. It’s like putting out a fire with gasoline. There are a number of other ingredients that have been found in bushwackers but are not required: Milk product: Milk, Half & Half, Ice Cream The following are essential ingredients that should be found in every bushwacker:Ĭoconut flavoring: cream of coconut, Coco LopezĬhocolate flavoring: Crème de cacao, chocolate syrupĬoffee liqueur: Bailey’s Irish Cream, Kahlua Pirates Cove bushwacker // Photo by Elise Poché I continued my journey until I had sampled no less than 23 of the finest bushwackers money could buy. Four months and 25 pounds later, I discovered the almost perfect bushwacker. This task caused me to suffer many hardships and several bouts of brain freeze, but I refused to give up. My assistant and DD (my wife Kathy) and I scoured the countryside searching for the perfect bushwacker. My mission was to find the best bushwacker on the Gulf Coast. ![]() ![]() The best thing about a bushwacker (and the most dangerous thing) is that sweet, chocolatey notes completely mask the taste of alcohol.īased on my personal experience, bushwackers fall into one of two categories: ice based or ice cream based. The ones that are ice cream based tend to taste better and have a smoother texture. Ice-based bushwackers tend to be slushier and less smooth. But either type is extremely refreshing and delightfully cooling on a hot, humid summer’s day in the South. It has since become a drink icon along the Gulf Coast of Alabama and Florida.Īlmost every bar and restaurant along the coast touts their bushwacker as the best, and each establishment likes to add something to their cocktail to make it a little different from the rest. ![]() Having grown up on the Gulf Coast and now residing here as an adult, I have enjoyed many bushwackers – they are the ultimate cool-down drink. This delicious, frozen, milkshake-like beverage originated in Sapphire Beach Village in the Virgin Islands. But it wasn’t until Linda Murphy, the owner of the Sandshaker Lounge in Pensacola brought the recipe back from a vacation in 1975, that the bushwacker was introduced to the mainland. Bushwacker from OSO // Photo by Elizabeth Gelineau
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