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Regino’s coquito family recipe popular among R.I. bars, restaurants, liquor stores

COQUITO CREW: Papis Refrescos LLC co-owners, from left, Travis Escobar, Victor Regino and Lewis Olmo run one of the only companies in Rhode Island making and selling coquito. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
COQUITO CREW: Papis Refrescos LLC co-owners, from left, Travis Escobar, Victor Regino and Lewis Olmo run one of the only companies in Rhode Island making and selling coquito. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Though a popular beverage in Puerto Rico, coquito, a coconut-rum liquor, is only sold by four brands throughout the U.S., and by just two in Rhode Island. Within the state, one of these brands is the international liquor giant Bacardi Ltd., and the other is the small, Pawtucket-based business Papis Refrescos LLC, doing business as

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