Anything Else

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Discerning Drinkers (44 ratings)
Ingredients:
1 2/3 fl oz Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1/3 fl oz Strucchi Red Bitter Liqueur
1/2 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
1 fl oz India pale ale (IPA) beer
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Garnish:

Grapefruit zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably block ice). TOP up with beer.

Allergens:


Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:


Review:

Zesty lemon, bitter liqueur and tangy IPA makes for a zippy, refreshing drink. A characterful IPA and nailing exactly the right amount of honey are key to this drink's success.

History:

Originally made with Bacardi Carta Blanca, this was the Belarus Bacardí Legacy 2016 winning cocktail and was created by Lizaveta Molyavka at News Café in Minsk.

To create my cocktail, I first asked 'is there anything else' in terms of cocktail ingredients that haven't been used for a Bacardí cocktail, but are related to the Bacardi family? I discovered the wonderful story of Bacardi's own beer 'Hatuey.' In early Twentieth-Century Cuba, Bacardi would take ice from their lakes in North America and give their customers an ice block and six-pack of Hatuey beer, then the best-selling beer in Cuba. My cocktail celebrates this by marrying the first Cuban rum with the citrus, grapefruit peel and bitter notes of the IPA-style beer, balanced with bitter liqueur, honey syrup and lemon - easy and super-tasty!

Lizaveta Molyavka, 2016

Nutrition:

182 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 14.89% alc./vol. (29.78° proof)
  • 17.9 grams of pure alcohol
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