Name: Anything Else
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Light white rum; 10 ml Red bitter liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Honey and water syrup; 30 ml India pale ale (IPA) beer

Anything Else
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
¹⁄₃ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
1 oz	India pale ale (IPA) beer

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

India pale ale (IPA) beer - Cereals containing gluten

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Zesty lemon, bitter liqueur and tangy IPA makes for a zippy, refreshing drink. A characterful IPA and nailing exactly the right amount of honey are key to this drink's success.

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History:

Originally made with Bacardi Carta Blanca, this was the Belarus Bacardí Legacy 2016 winning cocktail and was created by Lizaveta Molyavka at News Café in Minsk.

To create my cocktail, I first asked 'is there anything else' in terms of cocktail ingredients that haven't been used for a Bacardí cocktail, but are related to the Bacardi family? I discovered the wonderful story of Bacardi's own beer 'Hatuey.' In early Twentieth-Century Cuba, Bacardi would take ice from their lakes in North America and give their customers an ice block and six-pack of Hatuey beer, then the best-selling beer in Cuba. My cocktail celebrates this by marrying the first Cuban rum with the citrus, grapefruit peel and bitter notes of the IPA-style beer, balanced with bitter liqueur, honey syrup and lemon - easy and super-tasty!
Lizaveta Molyavka, 2016

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Nutrition:

One serving of Anything Else contains 182 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
14.89% alc./vol. (14.89° proof)
17.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Oneirich Tko

11th March 2023 at 10:49

Although I see a lot of positive comments I personally did not enjoy this one at all!

But hey try it for yourself and then judge it, "les gouts et les couleurs on ne discute pas"...

Onward to the next discovery on this amazing site :)

Erik Jensen

8th March 2023 at 02:37

Used Plantation Pineapple rum and Founders All Day Haze (4.9% session, plenty of tropical citrus flavors). Not just the best beer cocktail I've had, one of the best refreshing drinks I've ever had outright. Summer can't come soon enough!

Luca Sorriso Valvo

23rd May 2022 at 07:26

I made some substitution of a few ingredients with what I had at hand: anejo rum instead of white, lime instead of lemon, and a Session Tangerin IPA instead of a plain IPA. Result was excellent!

G. M. Genovese

19th September 2021 at 17:50

This is an interesting drink, but like the Doctor Pepper I just commented on, the Yards IPA didn't quite work in here (too nutty, woody, piney). Naturally, more citrusy IPA would be better. Was going to instead try Victory Hop Devil (basically a strong Irish red ale with grapefruity hops). Regretting the choice/purchase, haha! At least the Yards is great on its own.

Simon Difford

14th April 2021 at 06:56

This is the case with all Bacardi Legacy cocktails as I had hardwire Bacardi as the rum to ensure a Bacardi cocktail displayed as using Bacardi. When we have some development time it is one of numerous things I'd like to fix.

Michiel 261

13th April 2021 at 17:13

Just a heads up: I've noticed that for some reason Bacardi shows up in red with this cocktail, as if it's a missing ingredients. I do have it in my ingredients though. Not just a light rum but the exact Bacardi Carta Blanca even. I've noticed this at some other cocktails as well.

Mary Strimel

12th April 2021 at 22:26

This is just too good. The honey and rum provide a warm smoothness on the back palate, and you can't go wrong with Campari, citrus, and grapefruit hops. Perfect beer cocktail.

Doug Charnock

2nd February 2021 at 03:28

Very nice. I had doubts about the ale in it, but there’s so little that it you don’t get the carbonation, and the very hoppy Christmas ale I used added a pleasant hop nose and bitterness that complimented the Campari.

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