Drinks

A sip of paradise

By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Writer acadet@tribunemedia.net

The “Bahamian experience in liquid form” is what Shauna Ferguson hopes to offer her customers with her new brand of cocktails, Bahamadise Cocktails.

Like so many Bahamians, Shauana - who is mainly a makeup artist and hairstylist - was forced to get creative and came up with this new business venture last year during the height of the pandemic.

“This idea of Bahamadise was born at the peak of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 where I started to mix drinks for my family just for fun. As time went on, they gave me the motivation to dive into it more and it turned what started out as pleasure into a business,” she told Tribune Weekend.

The brand, whose name is a play on the words Bahamas and paradise, hopes to offer just that: a taste of paradise in a glass.

Bahamadise Cocktails offers six specialty cocktails as well as rum cakes. While the cocktails began solely with the ‘Sky Juice’ flavour, Shauna has expanded the business to include specialty flavours such as pumpkin spice, eggnog, Bailey’s,

BAHAMADISE’s Peaches and Cream

coffee, peaches and cream, and guava duff.

“What makes our product stand out would be the basis of our ingredient, coconut rum… which that stands out in each flavour and makes the cocktails even more special,” she said.

But beyond the coconut rum, Shauna believes the secret ingredient which has been keeping customers come back for more is the love, creativity and passion she puts into creating each drink.

Shauna hopes to one day see her cocktails sold at the hotels, on cruise ships and airplanes, and in local and international markets.