Painkiller

The Painkiller is a classic cocktail that was created in the 1970s by Daphne Henderson at the Soggy Dollar Bar in the British Virgin Islands. According to cocktail lore, the bar was named for its customers’ habit of paying tabs with wet dollar bills because the beach had no dock, which forced them to walk to the shore through shallow water. One customer named Charles Tobias, who went on to found Pusser’s Rum, tried to get Daphne to divulge her recipe on his many visits, but she refused. So he eventually recreated a version, named it the Pusser’s Painkiller, and filed a copyright for the name and recipe, claiming it as his own and even taking bars to court when they listed the cocktail’s name on their menus.