Creative Drinking

The Hemingway Daiquiri

When we think of a daiquiri, some of us may envision the super sweet, frozen, machine-dispensed concoctions or something you get at Red Lobster with whipped cream on top. The original daiquiri was an entirely different animal, consisting of mainly rum, lime juice, and a little bit of sugar.
Ernest Hemingway was a huge cocktail connoisseur, ordering the creation of new cocktails everywhere he went. This particular variation of the daiquiri is the only one to bear Hemingway's name and was created in 1921 at the famous El Floradita in Havana by Constanino Ribailagua in honor of his daiquiri-loving regular. According to the story, Hemingway often worked his way through a dozen or so of these, sometimes ordering doubles, which were called Papa Dobles. Interesting facts, eh?

 

Ingredients:

• 2 oz white rum (I used Bacardi)
• 1/2 oz Luxardo maraschino liqueur
• 3/4 oz freshly-squeezed lime juice
• 1/2 oz freshly-squeezed grapefruit juice
• 1/4 oz simple syrup (not in the original recipe but added to several variations and I think it rounds things out nicely

Shake hard with ice and and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lime and/or brandied cherry.

And if I may quote Hemingway (not something I pull out often), "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut".