Name: Nuclear Banana Daiquiri
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml White overproof rum; 20 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 20 ml Falernum liqueur; 20 ml Lime juice; 1&frasl;2 fresh Banana

Nuclear Banana Daiquiri
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Photographed in a Libbey Hurricane 13.25oz

Ingredients:
1 oz	White overproof rum (unaged Jamaican/funky)
²⁄₃ oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
²⁄₃ oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
²⁄₃ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fresh	Banana (preferably overripe)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Poco grande glass.
Prepare garnish of banana slice, star anise and mint sprig.
DRY BLEND (without ice) first 5 ingredients on slow setting and then gradually add Xanthan gum while continuing to blend.
Add 7oz scoop of crushed ice and BLEND some more.
POUR into chilled glass.
Garnish with banana slice on rim, star anise and mint sprig bouquet.
Serve with straws.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Cocktail of the day:

10th April 2025 is The day Bananas debuted

Review:

To quote our friends at Hawksmoor, where we discovered this delicious and indulgent cocktail, "Our take on a drink that doesn't take itself too seriously by the late, great Gregor de Gruyther. We've just added half a banana and blitzed it. Silly, but tasty."

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Variant:

Banana Daiquiri; Banana Daiquiri (shaken)

History:

Adapted from a riff on the Nuclear Daiquiri discovered in 2013 at Hawksmoor, Spitalfields, London, England.

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T M

14th February at 16:53

As others have commented, the drink is much elevated by the addition of 15ml of banana liqueur (giffard here)

Matt

16th August 2024 at 01:38

Live a little, and use the whole banana! Nice looking frozen drink - I used Smith & Cross, but likely could have used a 80 proof white rum and it would have been fine. A nice poolside/hot weather drink.

Sebastian C

8th April 2024 at 00:54

Delicious. Although we thought we secured an overripe enough banana, apparently it was not up to the task so we followed others’ guidance and added 20 ml of banana liqueur total (we had two drinks). Additionally, feeling it might need just a bit something extra, we added to each drink 3 drops of sea salt solution (4 water : 1 sea salt; (first tried 2 then went for one more). Additionally, we didn’t have yellow chartreuse so used Genepy le Chamois.

Jose Cruz

17th March 2024 at 03:22

6.5 oz WEIGHTED ice for me. yield was 12 oz. it was great but something seems to be missing... added 20ml banana liquor.

Niccolò Murtas

17th February 2024 at 11:36

I have tried to sub the yellow chartreuse with Strega liqueur (two thirds cheaper here in Italy) and at the moment I am not seen much of a difference, though If I were a billionaire I'd probably stick to the Yellow chartreuse to be fair.

John Champion

1st May 2024 at 16:17

Strega is my go to sub for yellow if I can't find it. Does great in most drinks.

hans de blooy

27th December 2023 at 20:51

10-15ml crème de banane (not some old bottom shelf banana liqueur, but something proper like Giffard) is an excellent addition.

Subbing the lime for ~30ml lemon also fits the flavor profile rather well

Sebastian C

8th April 2024 at 01:44

The lemon in lieu of lime definitely changed things up, and, in my opinion, made it even more tasty. The lemon really brings out the banana flavour.

Morten Hansen

21st July 2023 at 16:00

I was out of falernum but tried to approximate it with orgeat, a couple of dashes of Bittermens Emakulele Tiki bitters and a couple of dashes of Dr Adam Elmegirab’s Dead Rabbit Orinoco Bitters and the result turned out to be very tasty indeed.

As a side note, I also added a small amount of xanthan gum to help keep the emulsion stable for longer (as generally recommended for blended drinks by The Educated Barfly YouTube channel).

Katherine Gelat

4th April 2023 at 23:37

I used a full banana and added 10ml of banana liqueur.

Peter Eriksson

1st December 2022 at 18:57

Finally, a clever use of overripe bananas.
I used 20 ml Stroh rum 80% because I don't have any white overproof rum. The Stroh rum gave the drink a very nice colour.
A one 9 oz scoop of crushed, would that be roughly 150 grams?
Sip this one slowly, it's strong.

Yorey C

11th February 2024 at 07:57

also try a dirty banana

Steven Jepson

22nd July 2022 at 20:50

Oh so good!. Only had a 1/2 shot of Chartreuse so added 1/2 shot of Giffords Banana. On hot evening this is a Banana Slushie heaven with a KICK. A real winner - though be warned the Wray & Nephew comes through to the last drop so not to many,
ps - my banana was definitely ripe

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