Name: Black Cuban
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 6 Mint leaves; 60 ml Rum - Spiced (cacao & coffee); 20 ml Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice); 2 Orange bitters; 1 Black pepper; 50 ml Champagne/sparkling wine brut

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in a

Speakeasy Coupe 8.5oz

Garnish:

Mint leaf

How to make:

MUDDLE mint in base of glass. Add next 4 ingredients, STIR with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. TOP with champagne.

6 fresh	Mint leaves
2 fl oz	Cacao & coffee spiced rum
2/3 fl oz	Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
1 grind	Black pepper
1 2/3 fl oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Review:

A cacao and coffee spiced rum riff on an Old Cuban.

History:

Recipe created in 2019 by Helder Fortes Silva, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Helder's original recipe uses homemade mint-lime cordial and black pepper tincture.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
18.19% alc./vol. (36.38° proof)
23.8 grams of pure alcohol

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