1.5 oz Light Rum
2 bar spoons Raw Cane Sugar
.75 Lime Juice
10-12 Mint Leaves attached to sprigs
Sparkling Mineral Water
Collins Glass (10 oz)
Place mint, sugar, and lime juice in Collins glass. Muddle to express mint into sugar lime mix, but not chopping mint. Pour in about 2 oz sparkling water and stir till sugar dissolves. Add rum. Fill glass with medium cube ice. Top with sparkling water.
Garnish: Mint Sprigs
La Floridita Daiquiri
1.5 oz Aged Light Rum
.75 oz Lime Juice
1 tsp Maraschino Liqueur
1 tsp Simple Syrup
1 cup- Ice
Blend all ingredients in blender, pour into martini glass or large coup.
Hemingway Daiquiri
2 oz Light Rum
1 oz Grapefruit Juice
.5 oz Lime Juice
.5- Simple Syrup
Shake all ingredients with ice and double strain into coup glass.
Daiquiri
2 oz Light Rum
1 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Simple Syrup
Shake all ingredients with ice and double strain into coup glass.
Mai Tai
2 oz Medium Bodied Jamaican Rum
1 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Orange Curacao
.25 oz Orgeat Syrup
.25 oz Simple Syrup
Shake all ingredients with small broken ice. (Crushed ice dilutes the drink too quickly.)
Double Rocks Glass, Short Tiki Mug
Garnish: Expressed mint sprig, 1/2 Lime Shell
Notes: The 2 oz of rum can be divided into a blend of 2 rums, but should always include some type of Jamaican. Dark Jamaican/Rhum Agricole Vieux, or Black Jamaican/Barbados are popular combinations.