Canchanchara
Cuba’s oldest cocktail: aguardiente, raw honey and lime, drunk by fighters in the 19th-century wars of independence.
- Method
- Built
- Glass
- Old fashioned glass
- Served
- Over crushed ice
- Strength
- 12.7% ABV about 1.4 standard drinks
Ingredients
140 ml before ice, about 189 ml in the glass
- 60 ml Cuban aguardiente or a young Cuban rum
- 15 ml Lime juice
- 15 ml Raw honey
- 50 ml Water
Method
- Mix honey with water and lime juice and spread the mixture on the bottom and sides of the glass.
- Add cracked ice, and then the rum.
- End by energetically stirring from bottom to top.
Garnish
A lime wedge.
Recipe as specified by the International Bartenders Association. Strength is an estimate that allows for dilution from ice.
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