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Captain Cuba

Name: Captain Cuba
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Light white rum; 15 ml Fino sherry; 15 ml White crème de cacao; 5 ml Grenadine syrup; 3 dash Creole bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1/2 fl oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
1/2 fl oz	Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur
1/6 fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
3 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of dehydrated lime slice wheel..

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with (dehydrated) lime wheel floated on surface.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Captain Cuba contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
23.72% alc./vol. (47.44° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2010 by Victor Nordelöf at London's Callooh Callay as an entry to Bacardi Legacy and included in Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown's book Ramping Up the Classics!

Review

Victor's original recipe was made for Bacardi Legacy so calls for a light white rum. Perhaps more importantly, he specifies pomegranate syrup and your choice of syrup, homemade or otherwise, will greatly influence the finished cocktail, as will your crème de cacao which shines.