Name: Daiquiri Elixir
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rum - White (charcoal-filtered) 1-3 year old light; 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Sugar cane syrup (from juice); 5 ml Chartreuse Green; 10 ml Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Bacardi Carta Blanca light rum
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Clement Sirop de Canne
1/6 fl oz	Green Chartreuse liqueur
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)
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Bacardi Carta Blanca light rum, 70cl

£ 18.45 £ 1.19 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Clement Sirop de Canne, 70cl

£ 8.45 £ 0.09 per cocktail, makes 93 Green (Verte) Chartreuse liqueur, 70cl

£ 39.95 £ 0.28 per cocktail, makes 140.5

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Review:

Freshly pressed sugar cane syrup and the French elixir, Chartreuse, add complexity to the classic Daiquiri.

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

A Daiquiri variation by yours truly.
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Nutrition:

One serving of Daiquiri Elixir contains 138 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
19.18% alc./vol. (38.36° proof)
15.8 grams of pure alcohol

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