My favorite Daiquiri

I normally wouldn't release two rum cocktails in a row but today is National Daiquiri Day! Yay! So of course we're going to release a daiquiri video!

The history of this drink's ingredients is far older than the drink itself. The mixture of Rum, Lime and Sugar traces it's history waaaaay back to the 17th Century when the British began importing it back to England from the west indies. It wasn't very long before the seafaring folk doing the actual importing figured out how delicious it was to make punches by adding these things together. Once imported to England though, only the rich could afford these rarified ingredients. I haven't done the research to prove this but I'm pretty sure this mixture of alcohol citrus and sugar did it's part in the creation of Pirates. The sailors risking their lives to import a product they couldn't afford I'm sure pissed them off enough to rebel and take hold of these valuable commodities for themselves.

Fast Forward to 1740 when British Navy Admiral Edward "Old Grog" Vernon ordered that all Rum rations for the men be mixed with Limes (they'd figured out that it was a cure for scurvy by now) and sugar to dilute the potent spirit. At the time England was at war with Spain and now that the British were a little more healthy and a tad more sober than their Spanish counterparts which gave them a small advantage. But still the modern day daiquiri wasn't made until...

...Another war with Spain was underway, this time the Spanish-American War around 1898. The story goes that an American mining engineer stationed in Cuba named Jennings Cox created the drink to help protect his workers from Yellow Fever. There were rumors that Cox created the drink at a dinner party when he ran out of Gin and only had Rum left. Several decades after that another man by the name of P.D. Pagliuchi claimed that he was in fact the creator of the Daiquiri and retold the dinner party story. We'll probably never know the true history but we can all mull it over while we're drinking this fantastic cocktail.

If you want a more comprehensive look at the history of the Daiquiri you should pick up Jeff "Beachbum" Berry's fantastic book Potions Of The Caribbean. Here's a link"

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Here's The Specs:

2oz or 60ml Rum
1oz or 30ml Lime Juice
.75oz or 20ml Simple Syrup
Lime Wheel Garnish

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