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This drink is designated as an IBA Official Cocktail
Daiquiri
Daiquiri garnished with lime
Type:	Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume:	Rum
Served:	"Straight up"; without ice
Standard drinkware:	Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients†:	4.5cl (9 parts) White rum 2cl (4 parts) lime juice 0.5cl (1 part) Gomme syrup
Preparation:	Mix in shaker filled with ice cubes. Strain into glass and serve.

Daiquiri (properly spelled with an acute accent on the final letter ["daiquirí"] and pronounced [daiki'ɾi] but commonly anglicized to ['dækəɹi] and written without the accent) is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum and lime juice. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in the El Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... An IBA Official Cocktail is one of several cocktails selected by the International Bartenders Association (IBA) for use in the annual World Cocktail Competition (WCC)[1] in bartending. ... Wikibooks Bartending has a page on the topic of Cocktails A cocktail is a style of mixed drink made predominantly with a distilled beverage, such as vodka, gin, whiskey, rum, or tequila, mixed with another drink other than water. ... Caribbean rum, circa 1941 Rum is a distilled beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses and sugarcane juice by a process of fermentation and distillation. ... Straight up is a term used in bartending. ... Image File history File links Cocktail_Glass_(Martini). ... An amber tinted cocktail glass A cocktail glass is a narrow drinking glass having a stem and a wide, shallow, inverted cone fixed above it to hold liquid. ... An IBA Official Cocktail is one of several cocktails selected by the International Bartenders Association (IBA) for use in the annual World Cocktail Competition (WCC)[1] in bartending. ... Caribbean rum, circa 1941 Rum is a distilled beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses and sugarcane juice by a process of fermentation and distillation. ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... In cooking, a syrup (from Arabic sharab, beverage, via Latin siropus) is a thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. ... A cocktail shaker is a device consisting of a container and a lid, with a strainer, used to mix beverages (usually alcoholic) by shaking. ... Daiquirí is a small village, 14 miles east of Santiago de Cuba. ... In scuba diving, the word cocktail also means a hazard with diving with some rebreathers: it means a caustic solution resulting from water reaching and dissolving the absorbent. ... Caribbean rum, circa 1941 Rum is a distilled beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses and sugarcane juice by a process of fermentation and distillation. ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ...

The Daiquiri is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. In the book, he also suggests some variations, such as substitute part or all of syrup with grenadine. An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks is a classic cocktail book by David A. Embury, first published in 1948. ... Pomegranate fruit, opened Grenadine is traditionally a non-alcoholic red syrup. ...

Origins

The name Daiquirí is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area, and it is a word of Taíno origin.^[1] The cocktail was invented about 1905 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers. Among the engineers present were Jennings Cox, General Manager of the Spanish American Iron Co., J. Francis Linthicum, C. Manning Combs, George W. Pfeiffer, De Berneire Whitaker, C. Merritt Holmes and Proctor O. Persing. Although stories persist that that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests, the drink evolved naturally due to the prevalence of lime and sugar. Santiago de Cuba is the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in eastern Cuba. ... This article is about mineral extractions. ... For other uses, see Taino (disambiguation). ... Jennings Cox, American mining engineer who is said to have invented the drink known as the daiquiri in the late nineteenth century. ... This article is about the beverage. ...

Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of rum completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon. Later the Daiquiri evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled flute glass. An article in the March 14, 1937 edition of the Miami Herald as well as private correspondence of J.F. Linthicum confirm the recipe and early history. Caribbean rum, circa 1941 Rum is a distilled beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses and sugarcane juice by a process of fermentation and distillation. ... A cocktail shaker is a device consisting of a container and a lid, with a strainer, used to mix beverages (usually alcoholic) by shaking. ... is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ...

Consumption of the drink remained localized until 1909, when Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox's drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and drinkers of the daiquiri increased over the space of a few decades.[1] The daiquiri was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and president John F. Kennedy.[2] Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... USN redirects here. ... ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ...

The drink became incredibly popular in the 1940s. Wartime rationing made whiskey, vodka, etc, hard to come by, yet because of Roosevelt's 'Good Neighbor Policy' (which opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean), rum became highly attainable. The Good Neighbor Policy (also known as 'The Pan-American program'), helped make Latin America seem hip, hot and fashionable. As a consequence, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the domain of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the Daiquiri saw a tremendous rise in popularity in the US.

Variations

• Daiquiri Floridita - with maraschino liqueur, created by Constantino Ribalaigua Vert at El Floridita
• Papa Doble - double the proportion of rum, named for Ernest Hemingway
• Hemingway Special - leave out the sugar, add a splash of grapefruit juice and maraschino liqueur. Sometimes Hemingway Special and Papa Doble's recipe is mixed together.
• The Champ Sampson -Triple the Dark Rum...aka Heavy on the handle. Often Ordered in Colorado and sometimes referred to as a "Landlocked Dax."
• Magic Daiquiri- Vodka or white rum, with a mixture of different flavored fruit drinks and crushed ice.

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Frozen daiquiri

A wide variety of alcoholic mixed drinks made with finely pulverized ice are often called a "frozen daiquiri". These drinks can also be combined and poured into a blender eliminating the need for manual pulverization. Although to purists most of these are not true daiquiris at all,^{[citation needed]} use of this term to describe these drinks is common, especially around the U.S. Gulf Coast.^{[citation needed]} Such drinks are often commercially made in machines which produce a texture similar to a smoothie, and come in a wide variety of flavors made with various alcohol or liquors. This article is about water ice. ... States that border the Gulf of Mexico are shown in red The Gulf Coast region of the United States comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. ... Blueberry Smoothie from Lollicup A smoothie is a blended, chilled, sweet beverage made from fresh fruit and fruit juices which is blended with crushed ice, frozen fruit, or frozen yogurt. ...

See also

Wikibooks Bartending has a page on the topic of

Daiquiri

• List of cocktails

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Sources

• Daiquiri Story
• Calabrese, Salvatore. Complete Home Bartender's Guide. 

References