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The Old Cuban recipe is a modern classic.
You make the exquisite drink by combining mint leaves, aged golden rum, prosecco, simple syrup, lime juice, and Angostura bitters.
It’s a classy cocktail suitable for dinner parties or a bottomless brunch!
Old Cuban Recipe
Old Cuban
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- 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.
What Ingredients Do You Need to Make an Old Cuban?
We took a brief look at the ingredients in the Old Cuban recipe, but let’s take a look at our recommendation for those ingredients.
Aged Gold Rum
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Prosecco
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Angostura Bitters
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Simple Syrup
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How Do You Garnish an Old Cuban?
Traditionally, you garnish an Old Cuban with mint leaves. Make sense right? After all, the drink primarily has mint flavours.
What Barware Equipment Do You Need?
So there’s a bit to making the Old Cuban drink – let’s take a look at the barware you need to make it happen.
Remember: having the right equipment for the job, will make it easier to make the cocktails, and it’ll mean they’ll taste better too.
Cocktail Shaker
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Cocktail Muddler
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Hawthorne Strainer
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Jigger
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Coupe Glasses
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Old Cuban Cocktail Background
The Old Cuban was created in 2001 by Audrey Saunders.
When creating it, she envisioned “a Mojito in a little black dress”. Basically, a Mojito but classier.
She told PunchDrunk, “My goal with the Old Cuban was to create a lively yet elegant Champagne cocktail with a neotropical edge. “
And, “I wanted to keep the recipe simple and straightforward, something with a sharp, clean, yet tangy profile that also provides complexity and effervescence.”
Now, it’s an Official Internation Bartenders Association (IBA) cocktail and is very, very popular.
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