Bacardi Cocktail
45 ml White rum, 20 ml Lime juice, 10 ml Grenadine, 1 Lime wedge
Photo: Hemingway Daiquiri by Achim Schleuning (E-Mail: comander02_de@yahoo.de) · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · All credits
Ingredients
Measures below are multiplied for 6 drinks. Unmeasurable amounts such as “a splash” are left as written.
- 360 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 360 ml line. White rum
- 120 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 120 ml line. Lime juice
- 90 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) and one small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a tablespoon. Grapefruit juice
- 60 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) of a standard jigger, plus two teaspoons. Maraschino liqueur
- 6 wheels Lime (optional)
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What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Shake everything with ice and strain into a chilled coupe.
Method
Pitcher (6 drinks)Pitcher (6 drinks) - about 630 ml of measured ingredients, before ice and dilution.
Timings and per-glass steps below are written for one drink and are not scaled. A full jug takes longer to chill, so stir or shake until it is properly cold rather than by the clock, and pour over fresh ice one glass at a time.
- Chill a coupe.
- Shake the rum, lime juice, grapefruit juice and maraschino with ice for 12 seconds.
- Double strain into the coupe.
- Float a thin wheel of lime on top.
Serve it
Volumes in this story are multiplied for the size above, along with the ingredients. Years, ratios and the capacities of glasses and jugs are left as written.
Hemingway Daiquiri
Ernest Hemingway drank these at El Floridita in Havana, where the bartender made the drink with twice the rum and no sugar because that was how the man liked it - and where he is said to have got through an alarming number in a single sitting. He had diabetes, which is not funny, and he claimed this version was the only one that helped. It is variously called the Hemingway Daiquiri or the Papa Doble, and the frozen version is called quite a lot of things.
Getting it right
Grapefruit and maraschino are doing the work here, and the drink is unapologetically dry - if you are used to a daiquiri, expect your eyebrows to go up. Pink grapefruit is sweeter, white is sharper, and both are correct. The original also takes a dash of maraschino rather than two spoonfuls, so if you want it leaner than this, halve it.
Tasting notes
Bright and dry, all pink grapefruit up front and almond underneath, with the rum coming through at the end. It is the daiquiri for people who find daiquiris too sweet, which is most people who think they do not like them.
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Cuba Libre
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