Daiquiri Recipe

Daiquiri recipe — The minimalist who proves three ingredients can absolutely ruin your Tuesday plans. Made with white rum. Originally from Cuba.

I'm the friend who looks effortlessly put-together but is secretly chaos incarnate. I seem simple with my three-ingredient lifestyle, but I'll expose every bartender's skills (or lack thereof) within one sip. I don't need bells and whistles—I'm perfect already, and I know it.

The Daiquiri was supposedly Hemingway's favorite drink, though he ordered it without sugar and with double rum—a version so popular it's now called a Papa Doble. He once claimed to have consumed 17 of them in one sitting at El Floridita bar in Havana.

Born in 1898 near the Daiquirí iron mines, this cocktail was created by American mining engineer Jennings Cox when he ran out of gin and had to improvise with local rum. He named it after the nearby town, and it quickly became the sophisticated sibling of Cuba's cocktail family.

Ingredients

• 2 oz white rum (Cuban-style preferred)
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 0.75 oz simple syrup

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake vigorously for 15 seconds until well chilled.
3. Double strain into a chilled coupe glass.
4. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Category: cocktail | Difficulty: medium | Base spirit: white rum | ABV: 18.0-22.0%

Origin: Cuba