Name: Dark Daiquiri
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 15 ml Navy rum (ideally circa 55% alc./vol.); 15 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 10 ml Chilled water

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Navy rum (ideally circa 55% alc./vol.)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)

How to make

Glass

Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Dark Daiquiri contains 224 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
19.38% alc./vol. (38.76° proof)
20.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Sally Morgan Premium Member 7w

The sugar syrup amount worked well with the rums I used and I often use less syrup in cocktails. A classic

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

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 2y

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 3y

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.