Dave shows everyone how to make a frozen mojito

How to make a frozen Mojito

This is Illy showing everyone how to clean a cecilware NHT frozen drink machine in Spanish.

How to clean a frozen drink machine in Spanish

This is Dave showing everyone how to clean a cecilware NHT frozen drink machine.

How to clean a frozen drink machine

There are quite a few people who have claimed to have created the original Pina Colada. After exhaustive research, here are a couple of what we consider to be the most plausible.

According to Wilkipedia:

The Caribe Hilton in Puerto Rico claims that their bartender, Ramon “Monchito” Marrero created the piña colada on August 15, 1954 after spending 3 months perfecting the recipe. There is also a bar in Old San Juan that makes a similar claim.

Barrachina, a restaurant in Puerto Rico, also claims to be the birth place of the piña colada:

In 1963, on a trip to South America Mr Barrachina met another popular Spaniard and bartender Mr. Ramon Portas Mingot. Don Ramon has worked with the best places in Buenos Aires and associated with ‘Papillon’ the most luxurious bar in Carcao and was also recognized for his cocktail recipe books. Pepe Barrachina and Don Ramon developed a great relationship. While working as the main bartender at Barrachina (a restaurant in Puerto Rico), Ramon mixed pineapple juice, coconut cream, condensed milk and ice in a blender, creating a delicious and refreshing drink, known today as the Piña Colada.

According to Cruisemates.com:

The surprising answer is that the man responsible for it is not from the Caribbean, but from Europe! His name is Ricardo Gracia — born in Barcelona, Spain in 1914 in a small room above his grandfather’s restaurant.

Quite literally born in the business of hospitiality, Ricardo made his first drink at the age of 4 years old when he slipped behind his grandfather’s bar. Even though he says he was “scolded” quite severely, he knew he had found his calling. Mr. Gracia grew up working, and it paid off. Eventually, he owned two of the finest restaurants in Barcelona where his success brought in many of the rich and famous.

His illustrious clientele included Pablo Picasso and Salvadore Dali. Ricardo’s vivid memories of these two larger-than-life characters are as rich as his mixological creations.

Ricardo says that although Dali did appear to be “crazy” he could also be quite refined and cordial, and that he had a taste for the finest Brandy. Picasso on the other hand, according to Ricardo, was always dirty and unpleasant and would drink anything and everything. The last time he saw Picasso was when he gave Ricardo two of his paintings to settle his tab. Ricardo still owns these two original Picasso paintings, kept in a very safe place.

Gracia’s reputation grew, and in 1951 the Hilton Corporation lured him into selling his restaurants to sign on with them as the bar manager of the Hilton Castellana — the first Hilton International Hotel in Madrid, Spain. Ricardo was already well-known by the rich and famous, and here he rubbed shoulders with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Richard Burton, Jackie Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Damaggio, Orson Wells, Tom Jones, Maurice Chevalier, Ava Gardner, Esther Williams, and many many more as evidenced by his scrapbook.

But the Pina Colada, his true claim to fame, came quite by accident. By 1954, Ricardo had been moved to the San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caribe Hilton Hotel where all guests were given a complimentary drink called the “Coco-Loco.” This was a mix of coconut juice, rum, and cream of coconut served in a fresh sliced coconut — cut fresh from the trees around the hotel. One day, the coconut cutters union decided to strike the hotel and Ricardo suddenly found himself without coconuts! Not wanting to serve his creation in plain glasses he noticed a large supply of fresh pineapples at the hotel. He cut the top off a pinapple and poured the Coco-Loco mix inside and served it with a straw. This added just a hint of pineapple flavor – and the mixologist knew he had discovered something good.

To improve the taste even more he added crushed ice and strained pinapple — and dubbed it the “Pina Colada.” What does it mean? It is simply the Spanish phrase for “strained pineapple!” Soon he was making over a thousand Pina Coladas every night. As Mr Gracia was transferred throughout the Hilton Chain he took his drink with him and soon it became the most sought after and well-known tropical drink that we know of today.

There is also record of an article in Travel Magazine in 1922 that refers to the Pina Colada as a favorite drink in the Carribean…..

Who knows the truth?

All that we know for sure is that tens of thousands of Steve’s Frozen Chillers Pina Coladas are served every year, throughout the United States and the Caribbean.

Try one today.

Our mango Frozen Drink Mix is the #1 favorite drink of the Staff at Steve’s Frozen Chillers. It took us forever to find the perfect Mango variety to use for our drink mix. We finally ended up finding the perfect fruit in Costa Rica. We sell as much of it to use for Mango Daiquiris and Mango Margaritas as we do for virgin drinks.

All of our Frozen Drink Mixes are made with NO animal by products at all.

Trade Secret – Fabulous to use when basting chicken or pork chops

Did you know?

Mangos are the world’s most popular fruit!

Mangos had their beginning in India over 5,000 years ago

Whether you are serving it as is, or with alcohol you will love it.

How to make a perfect Mango Frozen Drink

1. Fill a 12 ounce glass with ice cubes

2. With the ice cubes in the glass, fill it 1/3 with water

3. Pour this into a blender

4. Add 2 ounces of Mango Frozen Drink Mix.

5. Blend Well.

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In a Blender

· Use a 12 ounce glass

· Fill it with Ice Cubes

· Add 1 shot of water

· Add 2 ounces of Steve’s Frozen Chillers Blue Lemonade Drink Mix

· Add 1 shot of vodka

· Blend well.

In a Frozen Drink Machine

· In a 3 gallon mixing jug, add 1 liter of Vodka

· Add 1 ¾ gallons of cold water

· Add 1 jug of Steve’s Frozen Chillers Blue Lemonade Frozen Drink Mix

· Shake well, pour into a Frozen Drink Machine

Fill a 12 oz. glass with Ice Cubes, add 1 shot of cold water, add the ingredients listed below, then blend well.

Volcano Lava Frozen Drink

1.5 oz. Steve’s Frozen Chillers Pina Colada
.5 oz. Strawberry

Berry Passion Frozen Drink

1 ½ oz, Steve’s Frozen Chillers Strawberry

.5 oz. Steve’s Frozen Chillers Passion Fruit