Nadia George
May 04, 2024
To talk about this cocktail one needs to talk about daiquiris and we need to go back to Cuba for this. It was 1898 and it had something to do with a US Engineer called Jennings Stockton Cox Jr. who was stationed in the town of Daiquiri.
Cox facing challenges and to cope up with them, experimented with ingredients that were readily available in Cuba. He combined local rum with fresh lime juice and sugar. That was how the first Daiquiri was ever made.
In 1930s, Hemingway earned his permanent stardom with his novel Death in The Afternoon and in te celebration was bar hopping. This is when he tasted the local tipples. When he tasted the daiquiris, he requested for an unsweetened drink, which later became the Hemingway Special.
Ingredients : 60 ml rum , 40 ml grapefruit Juice , 15 ml Maraschino Luxardo , 15 ml fresh lime juice
Fill a shaker with ice, add the rum, lime juice, grapefruit juice and Maraschino liqueur. Shake vigorously until everything inside is chilly. Pick a martini or a coupe glass and strain the drink into the glass. You can garnish the cocktail with a lime slice.