Anything Else

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Discerning Drinkers (44 ratings)

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass
Ingredients:
1 2/3 fl oz Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1/3 fl oz Strucchi Red Bitter Liqueur
1/2 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz Honey syrup (3 honey to 1 water)
1 fl oz India pale ale (IPA) beer
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Read about cocktail measures and measuring.

Garnish:

Grapefruit zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably block ice). TOP up with beer.

Allergens:


Recipe contains the following allergens:

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Strength & taste guide:


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.

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Originally made with Bacardi Carta Blanca, this was the Belarus Bacardí Legacy 2016 winning cocktail and was created by Lizaveta Molyavka at News Café in Minsk.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

Nutrition:

One serving of Anything Else contains 182 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 14.89% alc./vol. (29.78° proof)
  • 17.9 grams of pure alcohol
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New Year's Day

If Auld Lang Syne left your throat dry? And dancing left your feet sore? And drinking left your head fuzzy? Then resist the temptation to curl up in bed

Hot Toddy Day image

Hot Toddy Day

In the days before ice was easily available - and in most parts of the world, you needed to be pretty much royalty to own an ice house and keep it stocked

The day Prohibition started image

The day Prohibition started

One minute after midnight on this day in 1920, the Volstead Act became law and Prohibition descended on the United States, making it illegal to possess,

Beer Can Appreciation Day image

Beer Can Appreciation Day

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