Daiquiri

Name: Daiquiri
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Tiki
Ingredients: 2 oz white rum (or aged Cuban-style); 1 oz fresh lime juice; 0.75 oz simple syrup (1:1); Lime wheel (garnish)

citrus refreshing

Rum, lime, sugar. Three ingredients, perfect proportions, and the foundation every exotic cocktail rests on. If you can’t make a great Daiquiri, you can’t make a great Mai Tai.

A classic Daiquiri—white rum, fresh lime, and sugar shaken hard and served up in a chilled coupe

The History

Created in 1898 by Jennings Cox, an American mining engineer working in Daiquirí, a village near Santiago de Cuba. Cox served it to visiting American officers during the Spanish-American War, and they brought it home. Constantino Ribalaigua at Havana’s El Floridita codified the modern proportions in the 1920s, and Ernest Hemingway made the bar—and the drink—internationally famous.

Servings

Ingredients

2 oz white rum (or aged Cuban-style)
1 oz fresh lime juice
0.75 oz simple syrup (1:1)
Lime wheel (garnish)

Directions

Combine rum, lime juice, and simple syrup in a shaker with ice.

Shake hard for 10–12 seconds until the shaker is frosted.

Double-strain into a chilled coupe.

Garnish with a lime wheel.