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Old Cuban cocktail recipe

Old Cuban

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Prep: 1 minMaking: 1 minTotal: 2 mins
Serving: 1 cocktailCalories: 365

Ingredients

  • Aged Gold Rum 45ml / 1.5 oz
  • Prosecco 60ml / 2oz
  • Simple Syrup 25ml / .8oz
  • Lime Juice 20ml / .6oz
  • Angostura Bitters / 2 dash
  • 6 Mint Leaves (1 to garnish)

Recipe

  • Use a Muddler to muddle the mint leaves with simple syrup and lime juice in your cocktail shaker.
  • Add the rum, bitters, and ice and shake until well-chilled.
  • Use a Hawthorne Strainer to strain the mix into a coupe glass.
  • Top up with Prosecco.
  • Garnish with a mint leaf.

Simple Syrup

Simple Syrup is a common ingredient in cocktails and is used simply to sweeten a drink.

You can buy the syrup off the shelf, but it’s also pretty easy to make yourself. It’s made by combining sugar and water in equal parts – simple, right?

If you do want to buy it off the shelf, we recommend:

Angostura Bitters

Angostura bitters is a concentrated bitters (aka a herbal alcoholic preparation) based on gentian (a kind of clear liqueur), herbs, and spices.

It’s produced by the House of Angostura in Trinidad and Tobago and is called Angostura as it was created in the town of Angostura in Venezuela.

Typically, Angostura Bitters are used for flavouring beverages and also produce orange bitters to add to the alcoholic flavouring collection.

For Angostura Bitters, we recommend:

 

Cocktails with Angostura Bitters

Prosecco

Prosecco is an Italian white win that’s almost always made to be some level of sparkling.

By law it’s made from the Prosecco grape – aka the Glera grape – but up to 15% of the wine is permitted to be made up by other grape varieties.

For Prosecco, we recommend:

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