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Don’s Special Daiquiri

A Daiquiri sent to the tropics: two rums, passion fruit, honey and lime. Tangy and layered, with much more going on than the original.

Base: Rum
Glass: Coupe glass
Method: Shake
Strength: 18% ABV

Ingredients

30 mlGold Jamaican Rum1 swap
Aged or amber rummedium
Richer, more caramel
15 mlCuban Rum
15 mlPassion Fruit Syrup
15 mlFresh Lime Juice1 swap
Fresh lemon juicemedium
Slightly less floral, more tart
15 mlHoney Syrup1 swap
Honey syrup or agavemedium
Little change

How to make

Technique

Shake · 10–15s

Shaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.

Blend for a few seconds in a milkshake mixer with crushed ice and pour into a footed copo glass.
Fill the glass with more crushed ice.

Serve

Glass

Coupe glassAlso fine: Martini glass, Nick & Nora glass

Garnish

Garnish with 1/2 passion fruitScoop side up, floated on the surface.

Taste & nutrition

18%ABV

180kcal

1.59Drinks

StrengthMedium

Sweet to dryBalanced

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Year1930s

PlaceHollywood, USA

Created byDonn Beach

A tiki twist on the Daiquiri from Donn Beach, the pioneering "Don the Beachcomber" of 1930s Hollywood. He layered rums with citrus and a hint of other flavours to give the simple sour a tropical depth. Beach's love of complex, rum-forward builds shaped an entire style of bartending. This Daiquiri variation reflects that flair.

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