Name: Daiquiri No. 3
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 15 ml Lime juice; 12.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 7.5 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 5 ml Maraschino liqueur

Daiquiri No. 3
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Photographed in an UB 1910 Old Fashioned 10.5oz

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
0.42 oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₄ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

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Review:

A Daiquiri No. 1 with a tang of grapefruit and hint of maraschino. Essentially a Hemingway Special Daiquiri (Papa Doble) Daiquiri for folk without the great author's constitution or love of sourness. (The original recipe is blended and served frappe, rather than on the rocks)

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History:

Thought to have been created by Constantino "Constante" Ribalaïgua Vert at the El Floridita in Havana, Cuba, circa 1915. He purchased the bar from his employer in 1918 and ran it until he died in 1952.

If this was invented as early as 1915, then this was the predecessor of the Hemingway Daiquiri, since Hemingway did not arrive in Cuba until 1928.

This is the third of four numbered daiquiris in the 1934 1st edition Bar La Florida Cocktails, menu book, where it is subtitled "Maidique Style". According to cocktail historian David Wondrich on spiritsandcocktails.community/, this is a reference to " Modesto Maidique was a "colorful" Cuban Senator of the late 1920s who liked to challenge those he argued with to rapier duels. In 1931, he shot the former Secretary of the Interior to death in a shoot-on-sight pistol duel. He was released from prison in a general amnesty in 1933. He was certainly the first person any Cuban of the early 1930s would have thought of if they saw the name Maidique."

Daiquiri Num. 3
(Maidique Style)
2 Ounces Bacardí Rum.
1 Teaspoonful Sugar.
1 Teaspoonful Grape Fruit Juice.
1 Teaspoonful Maraschino.
Juice of half a Lemon.
Cracked ice.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Serve frappe.
Bar La Florida Cocktails, 1st Edition, 1934

See: Daiquiri cocktail history

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Nutrition:

One serving of Daiquiri No. 3 contains 189 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.82% alc./vol. (18.82° proof)
18.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Toby James

29th May at 01:13

Switching the grapefruit juice and sugar syrup ratios really hit my sweet spot. Which, as sweet spots go, fairly sour.

Ryan Harrold

18th July 2024 at 13:17

Not as good as regular Daiquiri in my opinion, but a solid variation of a Daiquiri nonetheless, with the 5mL of Maraschino Liqueur really shining through this drink without the Maraschino Liqueur being overpowering, although next time I will take the comments suggestions and cut back on the sugar syrup for a more sour based drink next time

Frederic D.

12th April 2024 at 22:15

Really good cocktail. I split the base into 1.5 Oz Plantation 3 Stars and 0.5 Belle Isle Honey Habanero Moonshine for a bit of a spicy kick. The perfect balance of sweet and sour for my palate, with just enough grapefruit tang coming through in the back of the palate. Hard to stop at one!