Cocktail recipe
Cuba Libre
A built cocktail featuring Light Rum, Cola, Lime juice.
Ingredients
- 50 ml White Rum
- 120 ml Cola
- 10 ml Lime Juice
Method
- Fill a highball glass with fresh ice.
- Add White Rum, Cola, Lime Juice.
- Stir gently to combine.
- Optional garnish: lime wedge.
Story
Coca-Cola reached Cuba in 1900, just after the Spanish-American War, and the story goes that an American officer in Havana toasted the new republic with rum, Coke and lime: '¡Por Cuba libre!' Whatever the truth, the lime is what separates it from a plain rum and Coke.