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El Presidente cocktail

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El Presidente

Rated 5 out of 5 (491 ratings)
Prep 1 minMaking 1 minTotal 2 mins
Serves 1

Ingredients

Makes 1 drink.

Method

With a Cocktail Shaker:

  1. Add Ice, White Rum, Vermouth, Cointreau, and Grenadine to your cocktail shaker.
  2. Shake well.
  3. Strain into a Cocktail Glass.
  4. Garnish with a twist of orange peel.

Without:

  1. Add Ice, White Rum, Vermouth, Cointreau, and Grenadine to a Cocktail Glass.
  2. Garnish with a twist of orange peel.

El Presidente cocktail

Recipe card

El Presidente

Rated 5 out of 5 (491 ratings)
Prep 1 minMaking 1 minTotal 2 mins
Serves 1

Ingredients

Makes 1 drink.

Method

With a Cocktail Shaker:

  1. Add Ice, White Rum, Vermouth, Cointreau, and Grenadine to your cocktail shaker.
  2. Shake well.
  3. Strain into a Cocktail Glass.
  4. Garnish with a twist of orange peel.

Without:

  1. Add Ice, White Rum, Vermouth, Cointreau, and Grenadine to a Cocktail Glass.
  2. Garnish with a twist of orange peel.

Vermouth

Vermouth is an aromatic fortified wine that’s flavoured with various botanicals and is sometimes coloured.

Traditionally, Vermouth was used for medicinal purposes (we’ve heard that one before, am I right guys?) but was later served as an aperitif in fashionable Turin cafes in the mid to late 18th century.

By the 19th century, it’d become popular with bartenders in the creation of fancy cocktails such as the Martini, the Manhattan, the Rob Roy, and the Negroni.

Grenadine

Grenadine is a non-alcoholic bar syrup that’s traditionally use to give a cocktail a red or pink tint and is made from pomegranate.

Cocktails with Grenadine

White Rum

All Rum is made from fermenting and then distilling sugar cane molasses or sugar cane juice, but White Rum has an ageing process that makes the liquor clear.

Rum is usually aged for at least one year and the contained in which it is aged determines the colour it will be.

In Bourbon or Wooden casks, the Rum will become a dark brown colour, but in a stainless steel tanks the rum remains colourless.

White Rum is clear because it’s aged in a stainless steel tank.

Pretty cool, huh?

For White Rum, we recommend:

Triple Sec

Triple Sec is a style of Orange Liqueur and you can read more about it in our detailed article.

For Triple Sec, we recommend:

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