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Makes strawberries and cream appear very dull.
NOTE: Strawberry pulp is notorious for blocking strainers and sink wastes. Hence, double straining is...
We just discussed wether a strawberry margarita or a strawberry daiquiri is preferable and agreed the a strawberry margarita is winning because the tequila blanco give such a nice contrast to the soft strawberry aromas.
Very tasty summer cocktail. I muddled the fresh strawberries through a kitchen strainer into a bowl, and sieved it again through the kitchen strainer. I find that blenders also extract some bitterness from the little stones (seeds) so not recommended. I ended up with 50 ml strawberries pulp, which I shaked with 50 ml Havanna Club 3 yr rum and 20 ml Pussers Gunpowder Proof Rum. Oherwise as in Difford's recipe. Straining ok after shaking, some intermediate cleaning of small cocktail sieve needed.
Try sieving the strawberries In advance and freezing the juice in an ice cube tray. Add to shaker/mixer when needed for your cocktail. Saves lots of stress.
As a light rum cocktail this is great and very flavourful.
As a rum cocktail it is a bit wimpy. Added a float of 151 Demerara rum. Good strong rum flavour.
When I make cocktails with lots of fruit pulp I actually prefer to: 1) Shake 2) Pass to the smaller part of the Boston shaker 3) Use a Julep strainer so that pulp don't get clogged up 4) Use the bartender spoon to help the cocktail flow through the fine strainer. This way I can even make two cocktails in one go.
Simon, thank you for the note about straining. Very helpful. Much easier to make this time. Did decide to up the punch of the cocktail by putting in 1 1/2 oz white rum and 1/2 oz of overproof white rum. Gave it a little hint of the rum funk.
Well I've just made my first strawberry daiquiri and, like others below, I struggled to extract the drink from the strawberry mush - a right mess! I used strawberries from my garden and a coco strainer, to no avail. Having read through the Daiquiri cocktail area linked in the description above, I think my problems may reside in using ice straight from the freezer. I can't be alone among enthusiastic amateurs in using freezer ice without adding chilled water to achieve correct dilution. Stupid.
Straining strawberries is a faff but I've added some notes below. As for ice, I recommend taking out the freezer 5 to 10 mins (depending on ambient temp etc) before use (as you would ice cream) to allow the ice to temper. Even then, some cocktails still benefit for a little extra dilution.
After reading the comments, we used a few more strawberries and muddled them lightly so we got the strawberry juice and the ingredients and then strained into the shaker. Then added ice and shook. The light muddle of the strawberries still was slow to strain, but most of the strawberry seeds stuck to the pulp.
Hi...tried the Strawberry Daiquiri. Overall taste and composition was great. Just had an issue with fine straining (double strained?), the fine sieve gets blocked and takes too long to pour! Any ideas to as an alternative as s most "Fruit Muddled" and shaken drinks will suffer this fate? The end result was spoilt by fruit pieces and icd shards....shame.
It's not the cone-shape of the Coco Strainer that is important. It is larger holes in the mesh of the sieve of the Coco that makes it easier to use with drinks such as this.