Name: Cuba Pintada
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rum - Light gold (1-3 year old molasses column); 30 ml Cola (e.g. Coca Cola or Pepsi Cola); 105 ml Soda (club soda)

Serve in a

Collins glass

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass, briefly STIR and serve.

2 fl oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
1 fl oz	Cola (e.g. Coca Cola or Pepsi Cola)
3 1/2 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water
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Review:

The name of this popular Cuban drink literally means 'stained Cuba' and there is just enough cola in this rum and soda to stain the drink brown.

Variant:

Cuba Campechana - rum with half soda and half cola; Cuba Libre - rum, cola and a dash of lime juice.

History:

A Cuba Libre variation.

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
9.69% alc./vol. (19.38° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Cuba Pintada

Serve in a

Garnish: