Week 4 - Classic Daiquiri

I barely made it under the wire to make something new from a recipe this week. Ultimately, I decided to try a cocktail I'd seen Alton Brown make on Good Eats that had looked really good - a simple daiquiri.

 

See recipe here: www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/daiquiri-recipe/i...

 

I'm a big fan of rum, but I don't drink it as fast as I used to, so gift bottles of the really good stuff tend to accumulate. A classic daiquiri usually uses white rum to keep the taste simple and the color clear. I decided to go with a bottle of Pyrate rum that I had on hand, so the color was darker than it technically should have been, but the flavor was great.

 

Also, I used standard ice cubes. Alton Brown has been pretty specific on his show and on the Food Network page that you should use crushed ice for this drink. I'd go along with that. This was a great drink, but it would have been even better if it had diluted more with ice in the shaker.

 

All in all, a very successful experiment and definitely worth doing again.

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