White rum · 1898, Cuba
Daiquiri
Three ingredients, no ice in the glass, ice cold: the Daiquiri is the most elegant rum drink and the opposite of the ready-made mix that carries its name.
Ingredients
- 6 cl white rum
- 2.5 cl fresh lime juice
- 1.5 cl sugar syrup
Method
- Shake all ingredients hard with plenty of ice until the shaker frosts.
- Double-strain into the ice-cold coupe.
- Drink immediately, it warms up quickly.
The Daiquiri was invented in 1898 near the Cuban mine of the same name, supposedly by an American engineer who ran out of gin. In Havana the bar El Floridita made it famous; Hemingway is said to have drunk twelve in a row there, without sugar and with double rum.
A Daiquiri is a sour with nowhere to hide. The rum has to be good, the lime fresh, the ice hard, the coupe cold. In the cocktail bars of Barcelona and Berlin it is the drink bartenders order themselves.
Where to drink it
The bars for a perfect Daiquiri.
SpeakeasyBarcelona · El Born
Paradiso
Behind the fridge, the best bar in the world
Cocktail barBerlin · Neukölln
Velvet Bar
Berlin's most creative bar
Cocktail barMallorca · Passeig de Mallorca
Brassclub
The best bar on the island
Cocktail barCologne · Rathenauplatz
Shepheard
Classics in the half-dark
