Lo Mismo

Name: Lo Mismo
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light white rum; Top up with Soda water

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
Top up with	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Method

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.
POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass.
Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
36.36% alc./vol. (72.73° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

The Mismo was a craze said to be started by a group of Americans at the Cosmopolitan Club in Santiago in 1899. When ordering drinks, one of their Cuban colleagues asked for a Bacardi rum and seltzer (soda). His friend, also Cuban, called for 'Lo mismo' - Spanish for 'the same'. Not speaking Spanish but eager to fit in, the Americans also asked for 'lo mismos'. The next day, the Americans returned and ordered another round of 'Mismos' from the same barman. The name stuck.

"It spread with remarkable rapidity", reported the New York Tribune soon after. Now, every barkeeper in Santiago knows what you are after if you ask for a 'Mismo'.

Review

Light rum and soda makes for a fabulously subtle and refreshing drink. Don't serve too long or the dilution will kill it.

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