Name: Cubata
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Lime juice; 120 ml Cola

Cubata
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Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
4 oz	Cola (e.g. Coca-Cola or Pepsi)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
POUR all ingredients into ice-filled glass.
Briefly STIR.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Hard to hate but the cola and lime dominate the subtle gin flavours.

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History:

Depending on where you are, a Cubata is:
UK - a gin-based equivalent to the light rum-based Cuba Libre.
USA - an aged/dark rum-based Cuba Libre.
Spain - pretty much any distilled spirit mixed with cola. Indeed, in Spain, where gin is the dominant spirit, gin mixed with cola is also known as an RAF, apparently historically due to Royal Air Force servicemen based in Spain favouring this service.

Nutrition:

One serving of Cubata contains 183 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
9.98% alc./vol. (9.98° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Juan Antonio García Cabado

24th November 2021 at 10:23

Well, I´m a spanish bartender and "cubata" was a way to call any distilled-coke combination.
Cuba libre it´s used just for Bacardi- coke and how Santi G. Lucchi says RAF it´s for gin-coke.

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Simon Difford

24th November 2021 at 14:37

Many thanks to you both. I've amended the above accordingly.

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Santi G. Lucchi

26th October 2021 at 19:59

Here in Spain when ordering a "cubata" they refer to a slight variation of the Cuba Libre cocktail but without the lime, just a rum & coke. Here, the more elderly people call a Gin & Coke a RAF (Royal Air Force) since it was the preferred drink of some Englishmen belonging to said Force. But the name's been forgotten by the newer generations.

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