Name: Dark Daiquiri
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 15 ml Navy rum (ideally 54.5% alc./vol.); 15 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 10 ml Chilled water

Dark Daiquiri
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
¹⁄₂ oz	Navy rum (ideally 54.5% alc./vol.)
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₃ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

The fine, sweet and sour balance of a great Daiquiri with hints of molasses.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Dark Daiquiri contains 224 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.25% alc./vol. (19.25° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

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G. M. Genovese

3rd April at 00:27

This one's a keeper. I agree it could either benefit from a dash more lime OR pulling back on the syrup a smidge. Really bored with this Denizen Merchant's Reserve (in cocktails), but it's more than serviceable here along with my new friend, Pusser's Gunpowder.

Asher Günther

8th December 2023 at 07:04

Personally find it needs just a little more lime to achieve the bite I want from a daiquiri, though I appreciate how this really shows the rum. I added an extra ~½cl which did the trick for me. Also used a demerara syrup which seems logical for a dark daiquiri

Chris Dimal

19th July 2023 at 08:42

It's definitely my own ingredients which make it flawed, but somehow, the dark rum overpowered the aged rum. So unfortunate, because I'm sure when made with better ingredients, it would be great.